20 GREAT Monster Movies NOBODY Talks About

15. The Host

It can be said of some works that, no matter how good they are, they will suffer in comparison to other masterpieces. The Prestige often gets lost within Christopher Nolan's repertoire, while the same could be said about Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.

Just because they aren't Oppenheimer or The Departed, it doesn't mean they aren't genuinely outstanding pictures. In that same vein, Bong Joon Ho's The Host deserves a lot more recognition than it gets as a compelling and thought-provoking monster movie.

Of course, Parasite is widely regarded as the director's best work, but 13 years earlier he took inspiration from a real-world disaster to create a creature feature that hit home as something terrifying that felt far too real for comfort. 

Balanced to great effect with such fear-mongering came a surprising amount of comedy. Not on the same level as Grabbers, which felt like a comedy first and a monster movie second, there was an underlying and understated aspect of dark humour that played perfectly with the tone of the story. It's a difficult line to walk, and the film nailed it.