I haven't enjoyed a gore fest this much since Inside. I don't know who will/what country will be next to provide us with a fast-paced flick chock-full-o'-guts, but I sure as hell hope I don't have to wait another 3 years.
shareI've got to disagree. This was the first movie I've had to turn off before finishing it
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I agree. I'm a big fan of horror and splatter and there hasn't been a lot of good ones out there. Especially in the last ten years. "Dream Home" is a movie that definitely need more attention and that should be seen by many more people world wide. Even if you dislike or can't manage asian cinema, you can still enjoy this one, since the gore plays the lead role and the plot isn't that involved. In other words; pretty much like every US horror.
share"the plot isn't that involved. In other words; pretty much like every US horror."
What? Hardly! The film is superior to any US horror crap. It's set during the financial crash of a couple of years ago, with the fallout from that and how it affected one particular person. People were driven to do crazy things at the time like suicide and even murder. The film is full of social commentary, with plenty to say about the real estate industry. It's all this that made it more than just another splatter entry. I'm wondering now whether we saw the same film...
I absolutely agree with your assessment. The social commentary is what sets this film apart from, well, pretty much every gore film I have ever seen. I'm a Hong Konger and this film makes me proud of being from Hong Kong. Very original.
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The best part is I found myself rooting for Josie Ho's character. She's so mild-mannered, and a good-hearted woman by her nature, but she keeps getting screwed by everything and everyone around her. At the end, I couldn't blame her for snapping. Besides, pretty much everyone she killed in the movie weren't exactly good people (except the cops, who were at the wrong place at the wrong time). Even the kills were original. Very creative film. I just love it. I will get the DVD for sure.
"Besides, pretty much everyone she killed in the movie weren't exactly good people."
The only people that deserved it was the couple that wanted a higher price for the flat. I could see your point if all the people she murdered was part of a co-op board that wouldn't let her rent the flat even when she put the deposit down.
The people she killed didn't know her and in the end, they were the ones that were screwed. Feel sorry for them not her character. She didn't even kill the developers that made the entire area move. I could understand if murdering the people who took her childhood home away and the people who stood in her way.
I cheered everytime someone hit her and I wanted her to get caught.
This movie was on my list, however the trailer made me think that a co-op board was blocking her from her dreams. I was cheering for her, and then I saw the movie.
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Same here. The trailer was misleading. I did enjoy the social commentary and the editing,cinematography, and camera work was top-notch. It was just hard to empathize with the main character's plight.
Although I realize now that that isn't the point of the movie. It's a cathartic experience for the viewers. Everyone who's ever gotten screwed over on a deal has wanted to dish out a little mayhem to make things even.
Agree with AmbientD2. If she had gone postal on the couple who owned the flat, or on the real estate developers who profited from the common people's misery, or the health insurance executives who were ultimately responsible for denying her father's healthcare, then she would have been somewhat a sympathetic character.
But she killed complete strangers who had done no wrong to her, even an unborn baby. I was rooting against her too, everytime one of her victims wounded her, and I ended up despising her. Sure, she suffered a lot of injustices all throughout her life. But because she was willing to inflict the same kind of injustices upon other innocent people, she lost the right to complain about the injustices done to her. She proved herself just as base as the real estate developers, the insurance company, and the greedy couple who owned the flat.
Still, it was a great movie. Did anyone notice that she probably hadn't initially planned to take out the people in the flat above the one she wanted? If they had kept their stereo down, she probably wouldn't have gone up there. After she got done killing the neighbors to the elderly couple's flat, she heard the blasting stereo, and probably thought that if she moved into the elderly couple's flat, she didn't want noisy neighbors upstairs (like the noisy neighbors at her parent's flat). Also, I don't think she would have gotten away with it, because when she left the apartment upstairs, she stepped all through the blood on the floor (+ her bleeding ankle), and would have left a blood trail exiting the apartment, which wouldn't make sense. The CSI guys would have realized this.
"No *beep* sh*t lady, do I sound like I'm ordering a pizza?" - John McClane
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Well said rip63, well said. I loved this film. It was loaded with dark humour and satire, and had highly original kill scenes to satisfy horror fans such as myself.
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I agree. Dream Home was really entertaining.
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