Ghost Mansion

  Ghost Mansion - also known as The Night Shift - is a solid low-budget anthology of horror stories from writer/director Jo Ba-reun. It's more creepy than scary, and more interesting than anything else. That's not a great thing for a horror movie to be, but what are you going to do.

 Our protagonist Ji-Woo (Sung Joon) is a webtoon artist looking for ideas after his last work failed to... get enough views, I guess? He visits the Gwang-Lim mansion looking for inspiration, a huge tenement building rumored to be a hive of paranormal activity - the explanation changes from the site previously hosting an orphanage that burnt down with all its children, or a doomsday cult; it varies in a way that suggests either a short expanded to feature length or a short story repurposed for this compilation, but I like the weirdness that introduces.
 Upon arrival he meets the building superintendent (Kim Hong-Fa), an impassive host who regales Ji-Woo with tales of the paranormal pulled from the rooms in the building.

 There's five stories overall - quiet, creepy little oddities that owe a lot to Asian horror comics.
 The first one is about a writer (Lee Chang-Hoon) who starts getting harassed by the kids from the burnt orphanage. The second (and the one I liked best) is about a young pharmacist whose lover kills his wife and son before going into hiding in her flat; spookiness ensues. The next one is about a sleazy real-estate broker who is haunted by plumbing issues and his sex doll - I also liked this one; It's silly, but builds up a great atmosphere.
 Next up is an extremely Junji Ito-esque tale of a boy and his mould, and from there the fifth tale finally explains what's up with the superintendent before wrapping up by sealing the webtoon guy's fate.

 It's all right - well-made and tightly controlled. I definitely expected a bit more craziness out of it and a couple of the segments are a bit staid, but it's chill, creepy and varied even as it never really builds up towards anything memorable.