Monsters!

How many Korean monsters do you know? Which ones enjoy riding humans? Which monster resides in a North Korean lake and had a movie made about it?

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Cheonji Lake Monsters?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFElPwUVUHs

MBC Jangsan-beom report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7gYwX0DLM

Reported sightings of Jangsan-beom (map)

Movie Recommendations

• Bulgasari - 1985 North Korean monster movie, essentially a kaiju film (called goe-su in Korean)
  • Director Shin Sang-ok was kidnapped by North Korea (ordered by Kim Jong-il) and forced to make several films in the North, including Bulgasari
• The Host - Korean title is ‘goe-mul’
• Universal Monster Movies - all the golden age films
  • Namely the first three Frankenstein films: Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein - cinema’s first great trilogy 
• Hammer Studios - all their monster films
  • Namely Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and Curse of the Werewolf
• The Mist
• Tremors
• Pan’s Labyrinth 
• An American Werewolf in London
• King Kong (original)
• Godzilla (original) - the King of the Monsters!

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