A film about a call centre worker who wants to live by the sea (eeeek ;) )

Cheng Li-sheung is beautiful young woman who wants nothing else other than to live by the sea and she is prepared to do anything (including a bit of a killing spree) to make her dream a reality.

This film is not for the faint hearted, and people who don't like a lot of extreme gore should probably avoid, but all in all an enjoyable fast paced movie.

The whole real estate prices story is the weakest of weak glue that binds what is essentially some set pieces of people being killed in imaginative and ludicrous ways. Suprisingly good looking film, and definitely worth seeing, but you could just fast forward to the set pieces and be no worse off.

The re-watch, this time of the uncut-version, really ameliorated my opinion of this film. First of all, it is very, very, very brutal and many scenes can just be regarded as disgusting. But overall I kind of enjoyed those violent outrages of Sheung, the female protagonist.

She would and in fact does kill to make her dreams come true. Her dream, that is owning a special apartment in Hong Kong with an ocean view. A promise she made to her grandfather and mother when she was only a child and teenager.

But as the financial situation in 2007 gets as worse as never before, the prices raise up high - and so, Sheung sees only one option to get, what she thinks she deserves.

In this shocking slasher film from writer, director, and co-producer Pang Ho-Cheung, actress and co-producer Josie Ho's Sheung will do anything to own her perfect little dream home; anything. With a mix of cold-hearted determination and homicidal tendencies, she works towards her lofty goal while several others have to pay the price of her outrageous methods. Derek Tsang, Eason Chan, Lawrence Chou, and some other young stars make up a nice supporting cast. This is a nice film for cineaste's to enjoy. “Smartie” Pang seems to have gotten his mojo back, after losing his way from smelling himself too much during his run of success on the international festival circuit.

An intensely gory Cantonese slasher, this one isn't for the faint hearted. A complex story wrapped up in a lot of blood & gore, I would have preferred it if the storyline had been a little clearer but that might be a 'lost in translation' thing.

Scream (1996) 27/3/2013 7

Disappointed in the bloodless depiction of the weaponization of a bong you saw in THE CABIN IN THE WOODS?

Well, DREAM HOME will fix that for you.

The main actress in this was awesome. I expected it to be a lot gorier than it was after being hyped up for it. I liked that it wasn't all blood and guts.

The re-watch, this time of the uncut-version, really ameliorated my opinion of this film. First of all, it is very, very, very brutal and many scenes can just be regarded as disgusting. But overall I kind of enjoyed those violent outrages of Sheung, the female protagonist.

She would and in fact does kill to make her dreams come true. Her dream, that is owning a special apartment in Hong Kong with an ocean view. A promise she made to her grandfather and mother when she was only a child and teenager.

But as the financial situation in 2007 gets as worse as never before, the prices raise up high - and so, Sheung sees only one option to get, what she thinks she deserves.

Dream Home is a 2010 Chinese horror film by director Pang Ho-Cheung. I didn't go into this with great expectations and I was very highly impressed! Pang Ho-Cheung has brought us a very disturbing and often fun killing spree film with an interesting back story. It follows Cheng Lai-sheung, a woman working a low paying job in Hong Kong. She has always dreamed of owning a house that overlooks the sea due to her personal family past, and she is willing to do horrible horrible things to make that happen. This movie is stellar! Very creative and extremely gruesome deaths populate the entirety of the film, and although many of them are extremely disconcerting and hard to watch, there is still a lovely element of comedy that somehow seems to shine through. I highly recommend this (especially if you want to see somebody get killed by a bong :-P)

38 of 365 in 2013.

39 of 365 in 2013.

The execution is everything...and here the motivations are all muddled and flawed. The great amounts of flashbacks would suggest I am to be sympathetic to the killers miserable life...but none of them are enough to justify her actions. So instead I assume I am to be sympathetic to her victims, but their deaths and almost escapes are filmed in such a way as to insinuate that we are rooting for her success. The film shouldn't have it both ways. Instead you're just party to an abundance of extremely disgusting murders. Only gets stars for the brutality and inventiveness therein....I only wish it earned it.

Black comedy just got a whole fuckton bloodier in this brutal but brilliant slasher that also manages to sneak in some interesting social commentary.