1 Film Excess nomination:
Best Practical Effects (lost to Inception)
+ Best Hong Kong Movie of the Year
+ Best Gore Movie of the Year
+ Craziest Movie of the Year
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| The totally awesome poster for Ho-Cheung Pang's Dream Home |
In Hong Kong the housing situation is desperate. - Really desperate! Our female protagonist tackles her passionate home dream in an alternative fashion: Besides working really hard, she begins to eliminate the people standing in the way of her getting her ocean view.
Big props for this film for actually bringing forth a real issue, and as a side gain giving the audience a look into the gloomy face of Hong Kong.
The extremely explicit murder scenes of Dream Home really take their toll and certainly aren't for people with weak nerves, also because the effects are incredibly well-made. The music, by Gabriele Roberto (Exodus/Cheut Ai Kup Gei (2007)), is used inventively. Unfortunately, the film at a point begins to wallow in murder capacities, unpleasant violence-orgies and uncool CGI-head-shootings. I still found Dream Home to be a generally punky, audaciously flippant gore satire.
It is written by Kwok Cheung Tsang (Isabella/Yi Sa Bui Lai (2006)), Chi-Man Wan (Exodus) and co-writer-director Ho-Cheung Pang (Vulgaria/Dai Juk Hei Kek (2012)).
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Watch the trailer with English subtitles here
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[Dream Home was the first film of lead Josie Ho's (Contagion (2011)) 852 Films. Ho was inspired for the venture by the infamous Hong Kong action gore movie Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky/Lik Wong (1991). The original title of Dream Home translates to 'Victoria No. 1', a Hong Kong address conjured up for the film. Shooting took place March - May 2009 in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay area. The premiere was pushed out, because of disagreement between Pang and Ho: She vied for more ultra-violence while he wanted a more realistic style. The worldwide rights were bought by Fortissimo Films. Dream Home premiered at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, where two audience members reportedly threw up and one fainted. It played at other festivals and opened #4 in Hong Kong and made 378k $ there in its 6 weeks in theaters. Dream Home is fresh at 74 % with a 6.3 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]
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