Hong Kong Festival 2010 Presents: Dream Home

It tells of a young woman, who gets into big trouble when they rent their dream home, for which they cannot pay anymore.

Dream Home premiered on 23 April 2010 as part of the Far East Film Festival. The slasher film had its European debut as part of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Dream Home was part of the 2010 SXSW Film Fest on 25 April 2010. The Hong Kong release was on 13 May 2010 as Wai Dor Lei Ah Yut Ho. It was released in South Korea in May 2010. On 11 June 2010 was part of the Seattle International Film Festival. The Canadian release is set as part of the Fantasia Festival 2010 in July.

Review by Craccum:
"The second film in the festival by Pang Ho-Cheung, and one in a completely different genre to his Love in a Puff. Well, two genres actually: a sort of social commentary on the quality and expense of apartment housing in Hong Kong, and a gory horror film. Li-sheung’s ideal apartment is one with a harbour view, but her call-centre job means such a place is out of financial reach—besides, the people who own the place she so desperately wants have decided at the last minute not to sell. But indignant vendors and a lack of funds won’t stop her: in order to make the sellers give up the apartment she goes on a killing—more slaughtering, really—spree in the neighbouring apartments.

"The film alternates between the aforementioned slicing and dicing and sequences, in flashback, that show why Li-sheung’s apartment battle is so close to her heart. Director Pang is clearly a versatile filmmaker, but here lets his one strength—an incontrovertible sense of style expressed through an obvious love for cinema itself—fade into the background in order to allow the gore and violence to take centre stage, thus robbing the film of much of its power."
- http://craccum.co.nz/?p=3118

Dir. Pang Ho-Cheung, Hong Kong, 2010, 90 mins.

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