Win one of three 2-disc collector’s edition DVD copies of the monster epic The Host

Won Bin in Mother a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

To celebrate this Friday’s theatrical release of Bong Joon-ho’s suspense thriller Mother, Magnolia Pictures is hooking FilmFetish up with three copies of the cult director’s last film, the monster epic The Host (Gwoemul), on 2-disc collector’s edition DVD, for readers to enjoy. If you haven’t already watched The Host and you love monster movies, you’ll want to check this one out. It was called “one of the greatest monster movies ever made” by New York Magazine. The special effects were rendered by Weta Workshop (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings, Avatar) and The Orphanage (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sin City).

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I’ll be running this contest through March 23, 2010.

More about Bong Joon-ho’s Mother

Hye-ja is a single mom to 27-year-old Do-joon. Her son is her raison d’être. Though an adult in years, Do-joon is naïve and dependent on his mother, and a constant source of anxiety, often behaving in ways that are foolish or simply dangerous. Walking home alone one night down a nearly empty city street, he encounters a young girl who he follows for a while before she disappears into a dark alley. The next morning, she is found dead in an abandoned building and Do-joon is accused of her murder. Thanks to an inefficient lawyer and an apathetic police force, Do-joon’s case is quickly closed, but his mother refuses to let this be the end of the story. Trusting no one, Hye-ja’s maternal instincts kick into overdrive, and she sets out to find the girl’s killer and prove her son’s innocence.

Find out more about Mother at motherfilm.com.

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The Host DVD packaging

More about The Host

The talk of the 2006 Cannes International Film Festival, THE HOST, the latest film from critically acclaimed visionary director Bong Joon-ho, has already garnered a substantial amount of international buzz. Utilizing state-of-the-art special effects courtesy of a creative partnership between Weta Workshop (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings) and The Orphanage (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sin City), The Host is equal parts creature-feature thrill ride and poignant human drama.

Gang-du (Song Kang-ho) works at a food-stand on the banks of the Han River. Dozing on the job, he is awakened by his daughter, Hyun-seo (Ko A-sung), who is angry with him for missing a teacher-parent meeting at school. As Gang-du walks out to the riverbank with a delivery, he notices that a large crowd of people has gathered, taking pictures and talking about something hanging from the Han River Bridge. The otherwise idyllic landscape turns suddenly to bedlam when a terrifying creature climbs up onto the riverbank and begins to crush and eat people. Gang-du and his daughter run for their lives but suddenly the thing grabs Hyun-seo and disappears back into the river. The government announces that the thing apparently is the Host of an unidentified virus. Having feared the worst, Gang-du receives a phone call from his daughter who is frightened, but very much alive. Gang-du makes plans to infiltrate the forbidden zone near the Han River to rescue his daughter from the clutches of the horrifying Host.