In the remote South Korea village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung- min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a mysterious creature that has wreaked havoc on the village. In the nearby forest, a coterie of hunters, including Sung- ki (Zo In-Sung) set out to track the beast and find themselves hunted instead. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
Roger Ebert – “This bloody, motoring adventure relishes the unease it places on the audience, lulling one into a classic heroic Western before morphing into a surprising creature feature whose recollections of ‘Predator’ and ‘Prometheus’ further reckon with the morality viewers bring into sci-fi flicks.” (full review here)
BBC Culture – “The film’s first hour is a breathless, non-stop rollercoaster ride. There is no cutting away to frightened families or government scientists: there is nothing but adrenaline-fuelled, tyre-screeching, gun-blasting momentum.” (full review here)
Cup of Soul – “Hope is nuts. It is sprawling, relentless, blood-soaked, and built on a premise that escalates with the logic of a magnificent fever dream. It is also one of the most purely entertaining, bracingly original films I have seen in years.” (full review here)
