NR, 96 min.
Director/Writer: Ho-Cheung
Pang
Starring: Josie Ho, Eason
Chan, Norman Chu, Lawrence Chou, Hee Ching Paw, Kwok Cheung Tsang
I’ve been to Honk Kong. I
can understand the dilemma of the protagonist in the HK slasher flick “Dream
Home”. Heck, even the dream homes in that high-rise mecca are a closet by some
American standards. I can imagine finding a suitable place to live in Hong Kong
can be murder.
In “Dream Home” that
sentiment is literal. Sheung just wants a nice apartment with a harbor view.
She’s worked and saved all her life for such a place, which in HK can run the
equivalent of $3200 U.S. dollars a month. Her reasons for wanting such a place
were once based in a good heart but have since become lost to her obsession
with purchasing such a place to live. She’s willing to do anything to get her
place.
“Dream Home” is one of those
Asian horror films that find the grotesque and disturbing in the everyday
mundane details of life—in this case, that perennial city dweller problem of
finding a reasonable place to live.
If you hadn’t guessed, Sheung is willing to murder for her opportunity
for an affordable home. Murder might actually seem a lite term for the
atrocities that Sheung commits in this film.
In the tradition of all
slasher films, “Dream Home” goes out of its way to invent new ways for people
to die. The film’s genius comes from the fact that Sheung is not a trained
killer, so she’s clumsy. That’s not to say she doesn’t have a knack for it.
Trust me, you wouldn’t want to be alone with her in a condo that just had an
open house.
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