Deals with the vivid everyday life horrors that can be easily encountered in familiar places around subjects like noise between floors, secondhand furniture, mannequins, and social media.
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- Dario TibayJune 5, 2026Urban Myths is a 2022 Korean horror anthology made up of ten short urban legend stories, and it plays almost like a haunted playlist. I had the nagging feeling that I had seen it before, but the film’s half-familiar quality actually works in its favor. These are stories built around tunnels, apartment noise, cursed furniture, dental horror, mirrors, mannequins, job desperation, and escape rooms — the kind of fears that feel passed around rather than newly invented. The film is uneven, but that comes with the format. Some segments are too quick and too obvious, while others have strong enough ideas to deserve more breathing room. “Tooth Worms” is memorably gross, “Necromancy” has a sad emotional core, “Ghost Marriage” turns job hunting into corporate occult horror, and “A Mannequin” makes good use of the uncanny. The visuals are often stronger than the writing, which makes sense given director Hong Won-ki’s music video background. It did not scare me much, but I enjoyed its compact, modern ghost-story structure. A decent, slightly disposable, but still worthwhile Korean horror anthology.
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Urban Myths was released on April 27, 2022.
Urban Myths was directed by Hong Won-ki.
Urban Myths has a runtime of 2h 2m.
Deals with the vivid everyday life horrors that can be easily encountered in familiar places around subjects like noise between floors, secondhand furniture, mannequins, and social media.
The key characters in Urban Myths are Gi Hoon [Tunnel] (Kim Do-yoon), Soo Jin [The Woman in Red] (Lee Yul-eum), Choong Jae [Tooth Worms] (Lee Ho-won).
Urban Myths is rated TV-MA.
Urban Myths is a Horror, Mystery, Fantasy film.
Urban Myths has an audience rating of 5.1 out of 10.
Urban Myths has made $811K at the box office.