Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

jadavix In its own small way, "Dream Home" could be one of the stranger Category III movies from Hong Kong.Sure, there's no black magic turning people's heads into penises, nor centipedes crawling in and out of girls' mouths, or men with superhuman strength turning heads into a red spray.There is, however, a strange young woman going on a killing spree because she can't afford to buy an appartment or... something.The movie has a completely pointless contrivance which sees the narrative told on a nonlinear timeline. It jumps back and forward constantly adding nothing but confusion to the proceedings. I was ready to blame that for the fact that I never understood why the protagonist started killing but, you know what? I don't think the movie ever really explains that, and I think the confusing timeline might be there to hide that fact. Perhaps the filmmakers thought that if they made the movie confusing enough, people would assume that there was an adequate explanation for the carnage in there somewhere and they just didn't notice it.The plot is something to do with a young woman who really wants to buy an apartment overlooking the ocean in HK. Meanwhile, her dad dies when she inexplicably decides to not give him oxygen.The lady going back and forth with banks in regard to buying the apartment is intercut with her randomly killing people in shockingly horrible ways. At one point she apparently causes a pregnant lady to miscarriage. These death scenes, sickeningly violent though they may be, are also far too improbable to really take seriously or get invested it. Our intrepid murderess stabs a man repeatedly right through the torso, the blade clearly coming out the other side. Is his body made out of butter? Another scene has her smash a lady's head into a toilet bowl until the bowl shatters from the force. Not bad for a skinny lil Asian lady.The death-by-bong also has to be seen to be believed.The ending does belatedly acknowledge the fact that the protagonist's killings may have had the effect of lowering property value, but I'm not buying it. It seems an... extreme way of tackling negative gearing issues.If the movie had been told in a straight-forward way, this might have been somehow believable. The weird non-linear narrative just takes all power and believability out of the movie.

guardianreaper Wow, I had heard good things about this movie and went into it with high expectations and I wasn't let down. This is a great horror movie but better than that it a great film period. The main part of the movie takes place during a 2 hour time period and is filled with flash backs through out, which brings depth to the main character. The movie s very gory and becomes more so as it goes on. There is plenty of black humor and drama as well to help balance things out and even most of the minor characters are given a bit of depth and development. The film is based on a true mass murder incident even if the story itself is fiction. I've seen some other movie with Jose in them but she never really made an impression on me until now. Josie Ho was amazing in this and I will be checking out more of her films.

Peter Mckain 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.

david_hokey_16 This movie is incredibly distasteful. When someone is portrayed as a murderer we should feel absolutely no sympathy for them unless they kill in self-defense or perhaps even as vengeance for someone who did something equally or even more awful to them. But a woman who kills people just so she can live in her dream home? Sorry, but I'm not buying it. She kills a pregnant woman. She knocks her down, ties her up, and slowly suffocates her with a vacuum cleaner. I cannot feel any remorse for this girl when anything in her life goes wrong. In fact, throughout the whole movie I'm rooting for someone to torture and mutilate HER. Movies like "May" starring Angela Bettis portray the kind of character you show sympathy for. In that movie, she is a nice girl with a lazy eye who never had any friends and everyone takes advantage of her, mocks her, and she eventually lashes out and accidentally kills someone. She then takes revenge on a few other people who treated her poorly, and one person who did her no harm, and though we don't root for her or take her side on the killings, we can certainly feel sympathy for her. The girl in "Dream Home" deserves none. If this movie was trying to portray a message it was lost in the senseless killing. Murder can be a symbol in movies but in this it's just murder and not even in the original, understandable sense of the horror genre. It's just truly awful.