The Host (2006)

In a more poor area in a town of Korea in the banks of Han River people spot a strange looking creature there and try to feed it soda and other stuff they throw in the water.
However, the creature emerges from the water and attacks and eats people there. Then it grabs a little girl named Hyun Seo (Ah-sung Ko) and takes her to it's lair to store for food.
Her family members try to hunt the creature down and find Hyun before it's too late along with a crew of army people but this creature seems to be unstoppable.

This was a very interesting monster horror flick. It's not really scary though which is what this film needed and a little corny and hokey too to top it off.
Yet it was a good budgeted indie film from Korea.

It's hard to tell the acting as it is spoken in Korean and overdubbed by terrible voice over actors which is typical.
However, lead actor Kang-ho Song seemed to represent himself well and looked very energetic.
Hie-bong Byeon was another one who looked good too as the father of the cast who tries to battle the creature.
Child actress Ah-Sung Ko looked great in her role too.

Joon-ho Bong does very well with his work in this film as he makes it funny at first and then adventureous.
The timing was funny with actors Hie-bong Byeon and Ah-Sung watching a sports cahnnel and looking excited.
The camera shots looked great with the creature coming out of the river and attacking people.
There's a nice shot on Kang-ho Song shouting for his daughter played by Sung as the creature grabs her.
The direction looks too over the top with Song, Byeon, Hae-il Park and Du-na Bae are weeping from this incident which is supposed to look serious yet it lacks.
Bong does well at coaching Song when he moves in to try and track this beast down with an army of people and is great after being emotional of what happens towards close to the end of the film.

Byung-woo Lee composes some nice violin music as well as some interesting pounding sounds when the creature is attacking.