How desperate are people to get likes on social media? Well, in Ansan, barely legal vlogger Minsu (Kim Juheon) — who used to specialize in food porn — is taking his fans on a live-recorded tour of a notorious haunted house that's been causing deaths for 30 years or so. It's a dark and filthy place with trash everywhere but a flashback of his humble apartment suggests a kind of "single and not-ready-to-mingle" status that's also ugly despite being clean. Will he die too? Does he secretly want to? And will he get more likes if he does?
He's certainly in need of validation. Past clips of him listening to his mother play Chopin on an upright piano while his couch potato father watches televised sports (with an attitude) make clear that socializing techniques were not taught in his childhood home. Neither were strong observational skills. A mysteriously cloaked object in the bathroom distracts him from some pretty cool tile work; a squiggly line on the wallpaper leads to a closet housing a doll that sends him into a hyperventilating fit. Breathe, Minsu, Breathe!
So what else? Hmm. A shadowy figure is glanced on a fallen mirror. A weird growl comes out of nowhere. A phone receiver hangs in the middle of the hallway. Broken glass is everywhere underfoot. Scary? Not for me. Sad? Definitely for its protagonist. In Jang Junyeop's mini-fright-flick "Disappearance," this lone videographer's final attempt at building his online audience is going to call up some painful family memories that may have him wishing he'd chosen a different hobby. I'm thinking improv might've been better.
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