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DREAM HOME is a modern-day homage to the nasty Category III boom of the 1990s which saw Hong Kong film producers making such tasteless products as THE EBOLA SYNDROME, RUN AND KILL and BUNMAN. Sadly, it lacks the finesse and indeed interest of those films, which would have been passable without all the nastiness; instead this is a film entirely built around bloodshed.This movie has an odd, convoluted-feeling narrative; half of the story is told in flashback, and the rest is basically one extended gore sequence. About the only thing I can recommend is the quality of the gore effects, which are exemplary and ultra-realistic, but that's all there is to it: there are no heroes or villains here, nobody to root for, just murder after murder. Before long it gets very wearying and nihilistic, worse than a cheap '80s slasher.The set-up story, told through flashback, I found very lightweight and Josie Ho's stilted acting and monotonous delivery of her lines didn't help much. It seems to be building up to some big twist but you end up thinking "so what?". It's five minutes of screen time stretched out to an hour. Yes, there's some good subtext involving the struggle for people to get on the property market, but in the end this is a simplistic, dreary exercise in sadism and one that left me frankly bored.

A young Hong Kong woman has her heart set on an apartment with a sea view. As various obstacles to the purchase arise she reacts by committing a series of savage murders. As you do.This shockingly violent slasher movie features a terrific central performance from the rather lovely Josie Ho. The satirical element which the film undoubtedly contains was rather lost on me (I'm not very up on the Hong Kong property market), but the film is very well made - quite a lot better than the majority of Western slasher flicks: it is a handsome film.If you are a fan of violent and gory films, you are unlikely to see many which are better than this one.

I sort of see Dream Home as a thinking man's slasher. What I mean by that is that it's a slasher film with a point, as it contains all the outlandishly kills from famous slashers like Friday the 13th (it probably goes further actually) but all the excessive blood and violence has a point, and a very valid point about the current house market in Hong Kong. Dream Home is also supposedly based on true events, I don't know how many of the events are true but I'm guessing not that many! Still, it illustrates the point of the film further as the age old issue of money has seriously taken its toll!Dream Home has an interesting structure which I don't know if it entirely worked. You see it cross cuts from her current murder spree to her past, including early childhood, right up to the events that led her to do it. In its favour it did add a nice layer of mystery to the film, and also helped to balance out the drama-heavy scenes with the horror-heavy scenes, allowing us to take a break from the last gruesome massacre and look forward to how it's all going to pan out! However, I can't help but wonder if the film would've been stronger having the events be shown in chronological order. It may have built the suspense and the final killing spree would've been doubly intense! It certainly worked for May, although the characters were much stronger in that than they are here. It's an interesting thought, but I'm satisfied with the unusual cross-cuts.Now horror fans are not going to be disappointed with the horror-heavy scenes! Dream Home showcases some of the most inventive kills I've seen on screen for a long time. Some of them are also quite heavy to watch, by that I mean distressing, which makes us feel less empathy for the character, making her well rounded. However, I think there could've been more evidence of her snappy psychological state in the past as she doesn't appear violent until she suddenly snaps. It does seem a bit over the top, but I suppose we can forgive it. There's plenty of blood and not only that, some scenes were actually quite suspenseful and thrilling rather than just a simple slash and dash.The drama-heavy scenes are also not as boring as I've labelled them. I found it really interesting to find out how she got so fixated on that apartment she wanted, and her journey getting her. They really help to flesh out the character further so we can feel for her and her motives (occasionally). However, I also think that a little background on her victims could've been nice as well, so we get to see them as humans too rather than just prey to feed off! The film is also beautifully shot and directed which I didn't expect. There's some lovely cinematography of the high-rise buildings which could also be metaphorical as it seems so out of her reach!Dream Home is a highly successful slasher and one that I'd be happy to revisit again. It doesn't hold back and also brings up various themes which have a place in today's society. I really enjoyed its entertaining violence and strong character build-up. You do care what happens to her in the end and it also makes a refreshing change to have a slasher film from the killer's point of view. I'd definitely go and check this one out as it doesn't seem that a lot have!

dreamHome is a very disturbing movie. The plot is quite simple: A young cute, sexy female telemarketer in Hong Kong has a deep, disturbing, obsession to buy a condo with a water view in a hyper inflated housing market, and she is willing to do anything from car blow jobs to multiple, egregious and gruesome multiple murders to buy one. There is a kernel of truth to that as in Russia, some renters were actually killed for their apartments, and without a view.The story is an old one: developers tear down old, shabby buildings and build new ones, and woe to the people that move in the new condos, when stalked by the dispossessed.Although the director, Ho-Cheung Pang has created an exquisitely crafted movie, in terms of lighting, composition, scene development, story line, music track, editing and great actors, the movie disturbs our psyche unlike any other slasher/gore films. I don't know of any of my friends that would watch this graphic/visceral movie. Oh, one friend might watch the movie, but he is a really disturbed individual and has multiple dildos and weird masks, and has a fetish for limbless chicks.A review blurb from Salon on the DVD cover says the movie is "Hilarious". If you think that the Holocaust is a great popcorn and beer movie, and the Mason killings were a hoot, you might agree with the reviewer. If you want "hilarious" in a housing movie, check out Duplex with Ben Stiller.If you giggled when Sharon Tate was stabbed in the belly while pregnant in the Manson movie, you will howl during the pregnant killing in dreamHome , when a pregnant woman is killed by Cheng Lai, aka The Condo Killer, as she sucks the life out of her with a vacuum bag as she wiggles for air like a worm while tied up on the hardwood floor. Oh, and her water breaks during the mayhem.She does kill a couple during coitus, is that an homage to I Spit on Your Grave or a rip. Another "gut buster" is the coke head who gets eviscerated and we see his entrails (including the large and small intestine spewing out) as though he is undergoing intestinal surgery, only he is not in an operating room but on a living room floor with loud rock music. And chuckles galore when one pot head has a broken glass bong shoved into his neck. Do hedonists deserve capital punishment by torture? Alex (Clockwork Orange) would be truly shocked and horrified and probably vomit by such goings on.I'll deal with those inbreeds in Wrong Turn and Leatherface before dealing with Cheng Lai. Imagine serving her a cold pizza. You would be sliced and diced and served as a topping with the Pepperoni.Cheng Lai is on a rampage of total destruction with her "water view" condo obsession. If only she learned how to downsize and lower her expectations and chillax a little with some Cabernet. The sound track could have been, (Can't Get No)Satisfaction, by the Rolling Stones. If only she would listen to You Can't Always Get What you Want.You may wonder, why the graphic scene descriptions, because that really is the film, and one could do some pseudo economic poor/rich commentary, but that pales compared to the total visceral experience of this movie.If you can stand gore and I mean really stomach gore, this is a very well crafted movie. Too bad I will never be able to watch it with someone, unless they are just released from a mental institution. If you liked Irreversible (which I did, as the only one in the audience) you will like dreamHome.If you took out the gore in the movie, it would be an exceptional short with a great Rod Serling voice over and the classic Twilight Zone ironic twist. American movie makers should not try and top the gore in this movie...it would mean the end of our civility. My drive-in rating: multiple breasts, pregnant girl, one penis, some ass, gizzards.