Gaming & Culture

This Clip from The Host Is Pretty Unbelievably Great

By Lev Grossman | @leverus | November 21, 2008 | +

I don’t watch horror movies. But I do watch clips of the good bits from horror movies, when helpful sites like io9 post them. (I never know if that’s a zero or a letter o in there. Well, today it’s a letter o.) Yesterday they posted this clip from The Host. Just watch that first epic 40-second shot! I don’t understand why all movies aren’t like this.

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  • http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

    I was rolling my eyes when I clicked through, but that was six kinds of awesome.

  • Kemper

    When will the world wake up and deal with the mutant fish problem??The whole movie is pretty good. I think they cut some serious gore out of this clip though.
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    BTW. Speaking of abominations in Asian filmmaking, anyone seen that Speilberg and Will Smith want to do an American version of Oldboy? While I’m a fan of those guys, they are far too Hollywood to even attempt to film any of the twisted stuff in that flick. Watered down disaster looms over that one.

  • http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

    BTW, it’s an “oh.” Like the Galilean moon.

  • Cliff

    I didn’t really like the rest of the movie. What can I say? Sometimes Asian cinema does it for me, sometimes it doesn’t.
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    I wasn’t feeling it for “The Host.”

  • brucehood

    Beg Beg Beg to differ Cliff…. The quirkiness of “The Host” made it compelling and the ending is simultaneously tragic yet uplifting. It is unlikely to be made into a US version. I find the recent Hollywoodizing of Asian horror repugnant and so opportunistic and I worry it subverts Asian film-makers who may have a view of the US market when producing work.
    But I respect it’s not for everyone.
    bruce

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