A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.
- Awards
- 29 wins & 36 nominations
Byun Hee-Bong
- Park Hie-bong
- (as Byun Hee-bong)
Bae Doona
- Park Nam-Joo
- (as Bae Doo-na)
Ko Ah-sung
- Park Hyun-seo
- (as Ko A-sung)
Oh Dal-su
- The Monster
- (voice)
- (as Dal-su Oh)
Lee Jae-eung
- Se-jin
- (as Jae-eung Lee)
Yun Je-mun
- Homeless Man
- (as Je-mun Yun)
Pil-sung Yim
- Fat Guevara
- (as Pil-Sung Yim)
Kim Roe-ha
- Hazmat Suit Man at Funeral
- (as Roe-ha Kim)
Park No-shik
- Inquiry officer
- (as No-shik Park)
Go Su-hee
- Hostage nurse
- (as Su-hee Go)
Brian Rhee
- Young Korean Doctor
- (as Brian Lee)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCo-Writer and Director Bong Joon Ho and the designer of the creature nicknamed it Steve Buscemi, based on the actor's screen persona and the way he acted in Fargo (1996).
- GoofsThe sewage they are searching the monster in, is dry and clean.
- Quotes
Park Gang-Du: Let's have a cold one. Here.
[He hands Hyun-seo a can of beer]
Park Hyun-seo: This is alcohol.
Park Gang-Du: Well, you're in middle school now.
- Crazy creditsJust before the credits ends, you can hear a loud roar of the monster.
- Alternate versionsThere are two versions in circulation, the worldwide theatrical release, and another, edited cut available in Croatia. Runtines are, respectively, "2h (120 min)" and "1h 50m (110 min) (DVD) (Croatia)".
Featured review
entertaining mix of monster, horror, family movies
I find it a little bit difficult to analyze why I enjoyed so much 'Gwoemul'. I am no big fan of monster movies, and while I like horror films I suffered too often watching them recently because of the inflation of films in the genre, so it is very hard to satisfy me here. It is not actually on the horror side where 'Gwoemul' succeeds the best either, its limping monster surging from the water of the river is a mix of what we fear about the Loch Ness monster and a big lizard, but not really that scary. The third component of the mix is a family movie describing a quite dis-functional family at first sight whose life is badly affected by the monster abduction of the youngest girl. Yet, nothing too special here either in the story if we are to except that rules that we know from classical family movies are broken here in an atmosphere that oddly mixes melodrama and comedy, with some of the characters badly suffering and even dying on screen at untypical timing. Here lies maybe the secret of the film - it dares break the conventions, combines horror and family relations, monsters and ecological policies in a mix with no rules set in advance, and all with an apparent nuance of directness and cruel parody. The result is highly entertaining, the good professional skills the director and his team show with camera and sound help without becoming principal actors as in many monster movies. At the end 'Gwoemul' leaves a surprisingly positive impression of freshness, efficiency and good entertainment.
helpful•71
- dromasca
- Jul 11, 2008
- How long is The Host?Powered by Alexa
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Monster
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- ₩12,215,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,201,923
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $320,000
- Mar 11, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $89,433,506
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content