This film was a box office hit in South Korea in true 'B Movie' form. I loved the film. It was perfect for a midnight horror show and the audience, many young folks, simply loved it. No moral dilemma, no profound message, just a pure unadulterated monster film. The acting was great, I couldn't get enough.
If I could indulge in my own reaction; it seemed all to freudian to me. A South Korean film whereby the populous chronically looks down the 'mouth' of the beast with so many facetted cavities within that mouth it could hold an entire village for dinner or regurgitation for consumption later.
The beast literally reminded me of the terror a nuclear reactor in North Korea would bring that manfested from 'toxic waste' dumped in familiar waters. Raw fear. A monster with unlimited capacity until brought to a horrible end by the 'hero' in the film.
The 'stupidity' of the government content to create an alternate reality in the form of a faux virus that infects people simply exposed to those exposed to the beast. The hero a simple minded man in a simple life exposed to government cruelty when a sample of his brain is excised for analysis seeking a cure for 'the virus' that doesn't exist but surely will engulf us all. He awakes from his anestetic reality unharmed and undaunted. What a guy.
The heroine is a young girl. A survivor to the worst ravages of the beast, but, dies in the end, again in service to yet a younger person which eventually comes to befriend the hero and the two find solice in their mutual loss. It was a great film and I recommend it to anyone inclined to view it. It was good fun.
And with that I retired for the night.
