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Na Hong-jin's South Korean sci-fi banger brilliantly fuses cop thriller and monster movie trappings into a wild, hugely satisfying action epic.

A rural Korean village is under savage attack from a mysterious creature. All communication has been cut off. Now it is down to a band of hunters, hapless police and terrified locals to identify the beast and bring it down (while being chased themselves). What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.

This ferociously exciting, entertaining and entirely unpredictable film from cult director Na Hong-jin (The Chaser, The Yellow Sea, The Wailing) is one of the most ambitious and thrilling films of the year, and South Korea's most expensive movie of all time.