My Pitiful Review for The Host

Up until now, I’ve seen few horror movies that barely caught my interest. The films I have seen are always focused on the blood and gore rather than the plot itself, and even if they focus on the plot, it’s usually a whacked up story. The only enjoyable mystery/horror movie I’ve seen was ‘7’, up until now.
The Host was a truly enjoyable movie, and unlike another Asian film ‘Seven Samurai’, the character’s emotion didn’t overwhelm me. In fact, they were too emotional, crying out and screeching like harpies. Everything that was nothing important, they turned into something drastic. In ‘The Host’, the characters seemed entirely realistic such as here in modern times. The different points of views were also interesting because the movie was shown in all the character’s situations. Such as the uncle finding his niece’s location, yet he was set up to be trapped for a reward.
The graphics they used for the monster was awesome as well. It looked like something you’d expect to find in a nightmare, yet there it is, lurking in your city’s river.
It was slimy, gargantuan, and terrifying or in other words, everything that makes a monster a monster. It was truly the creation that we humans and our chemical concoctions made.
The story line that they used and the details to support it almost actually made sense to me, as if it could happen in real life, which scares me. In other horror films, there is rarely a chance that an evil doll will come to life because he was possessed by a killer and start murdering everyone. Sure, I was scared during the blood and mayhem, but afterwards, I could sleep peacefully. After seeing The Host, I’m probably never going to go near a river or a lake or any large body of water again without visibly shaking in fear.
I also loved the type of ending; satisfying. Although the father’s daughter was killed, the little boy that she was surviving with was adopted by him, so it was as if he could continue living as a father. It was heartwarming and instead of being like some horror films, where they leave the ending up to the viewer, they show you that the character’s will live in peace, even after what had happened.
5/5