How sad is this?

Absolutely the worst movie.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

well lets start with the plot then.... the basic premise of the film is as a young girl the main character was kicked out of her house by the sea and since that day she has had a dream of buying it back. The problem being that houses are super expensive around the time it is set and several events tip her over the edge as she will do anything to accomplish her dreams.The plot is extremely well scripted in my opinion and the gore effects are over the top. The camera work is pretty nice i particularly like the opening sequence with some stylistic shots of flats and apartments. The whole film is satirical and the people killed are considered evil in the directors eyes. All the characters are like typical people you would meet in Hong Kong adding a sense of realism furthermore the director says he got the idea from a news article so its based on real events. The music is all composed by the lead actresses band which is quite a nice touch.In the end you are left with a controversial film with some nasty gore scenes with hints of black comedy and an original believable plot that stands out from typical slashers and will keep your attention throughout the film. It definitely merits a watch but it is definitely not for everyone.

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.

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.

Dream Home is one of the most vicious, gory, and violent (occasionally to the point of hilarity) slasher flicks that I've seen in quite a while. A Hong Kong woman has wanted to own a high-rise apartment for most of her life, and she's not going to let anyone stop her from achieving that dream.Not only is Dream Home wince-inducingly entertaining, it also has a story that actually makes sense. Always a good thing (and often a bonus), in this kind of movie. The film jumps between the childhood of the main character, more recent events in her life, and the murderous rampage happening in the present, and it all ties together quite nicely. I highly recommend this to slasher fans looking for something beside the usual set-ups and characters and those looking for a foreign movie with a little more bite, but those with a tender disposition or no stomach for on-screen violence need not apply.