10 Best Sci-Fi Films Of The 21st Century So Far

7. The Host I heard recently that a movie will be coming out in 2013 entitled The Host. My reaction was a mixture of concern and intrigue, similar to when I heard Spike Lee planned in remaking Oldboy. The 2006 film The Host transcends genres from scene to scene, ranging from sci-fi to horror to melodrama and back again. The film begins as an American scientist dumping hazardous chemicals down the drain instead of in a safe and sterile manner. What results is the creation of a monster which torments a town in South Korea. While many other recent monster movies have succeeded only up until the audience witnesses the monster, the creature in the Host delivers a balance of fear and excitement. Though the Host offers multiple layers of social, political and global commentary, the film also works very simply as a fun science fiction thriller, with legitimate moments of tension involving a family we learn to care for. Oh, and that 2013 release The Host? Not a remake of this, but some more teenage garbage by the lady who wrote the Twilight books.