So here's the spoiler-light set-up: in 16th century Korea, a good king sees his popularity and power crumble as disasters hit the land, and rumors spread among the people that their lord is nice but incapable of protecting them. Now I'll give a spoiler-light set-up of what the film is about, and after that I'll give a spoiler warning, to be able to discuss things from the last two thirds without having to chew my tongue all the time. There are fights, explosions, and there are even a fart joke or two thrown in.
MONSTRUM KOREAN MOVIE HOW TO
So how to best approach this? Let's start by saying Monstrum is very silly, very gory, and as long as you put your brain on "entertainment mode" and don't expect this to be remotely as good as Bong Joon-ho's The Host, you'll have a swell time. That's easier said than done, though, as a large part of the story deals with the question of whether or not there is actually a monster in the film, and I feel loath to spoil that part of the story for interested newcomers. I saw it and liked it, so here is my review.
The Imagine Film Festival showed one of these early in 2019: Korean director Huh Jong-ho's historical action thriller Monstrum. Several entries were added to the sub-sub-genre of Korean history-slash-horror films in 2018 (and there's even a Korean historical zombie series, Kingdom, on Netflix).
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