NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 27: The Host (2006) & Troll Hunter (2010)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 105 minutes
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"TROLL!" This week Mike is joined by James Rendell to discuss two international monster movies from the 2000s...Bong Joon Ho's THE HOST and André Øvredal's TROLL HUNTER.
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| 0:00.0 | After the wave of big-budget monster movies and disaster films in the 1990s, the sub-genres |
| 0:28.6 | started to disappear from the mainstream in the 21st century. |
| 0:32.9 | The big, glossy genre films featuring A-list stars had been replaced with grittier indie genre movies, |
| 0:39.9 | usually shot on a small budget on digital video, often with a kind of found footage, |
| 0:44.9 | gritty sensibility. In 2006, up-and-coming Korean director Bong Joon Ho made The Host, |
| 0:52.3 | made on a small budget of $11 million. The film was inspired by his love |
| 0:56.9 | of kaiju movies like Godzilla and went on to become a huge international hit. Similarly, in 2010, |
| 1:04.8 | Norwegian film director Andrei Overdahl created a found footage eco-horror movie about trolls. |
| 1:11.6 | Made on a tiny budget of $3 million, the film has grown to become a cult genre favorite. |
| 1:18.6 | Both these films launched their directors into the mainstream and made Bong Joon Ho and Andre Overdahl |
| 1:25.6 | two of the most respected genre filmmakers of the last decade. |
| 1:32.3 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror movies, |
| 1:36.3 | and we discuss Bong Joon Ho's The Host and Andre Overdahl's Troll Hunter. |
| 1:51.8 | Troll! Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 1:54.6 | My name is Mike Munser, and as ever, I am your host. |
| 1:57.8 | In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror |
| 2:01.5 | genre, one subgenre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the |
| 2:07.2 | evolution of nature biting back in horror. And this is part 27. We are hurtling towards the end now. |
| 2:16.2 | And in this week's episode, as that intro suggested, we are going to be covering two international movies from the 2000s. That's Bong Joon Ho's The Host from 2006 and Andre Overdell's Troll Hunter from 2010. Both of these discussions will be spoilerific. They are both such fun watches. Please do go away. Give |
| 2:37.3 | them a watch before you listen to our discussion. So joining me to discuss these two bangers, |
| 2:42.5 | I've got a returning guest, one of my very favorite people to have on the podcast. He was last here |
| 2:47.2 | in our home invasion season to discuss the feast and men with me. He is a writer, |
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