The Host

"This is the third feature film from South Korean director Bong Joon-ho (who would eventually achieve worldwide fame with films like 'Okja' and 'Parasite'), Superficially, 'Gwoemul' may sound like a common monster movie, but it's also a political satire set against an incident in 2000, in which a Korean mortician disposed of devastating amounts of formaldehyde on orders from the American military. In line with the best exponents of the subgenre, such as the original 1954 'Godzilla', this film is a more complex metaphor than it seems, with subtle touches of the eccentric humor that would mark his later filmography."