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)
Sketch of Jangsan-beom by eyewitness Oh Yuboon
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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