I want to like Dream Home more than I do. I love that someone made a slasher flick about the Hong Kong housing market. I love that it makes some really insightful social commentary. I love that it takes the time to show its victims as normal people. And I love the darkly comedic moments it squeezes in. I just don't like the way everything works together.
The over the top nature of the deaths completely clashes with the realistic way they're portrayed. This isn't a dumb film, and I'm sure this was a deliberate choice, but the final effect is uncomfortably torture porn-y. Cheng Li-sheung is fascinating on paper, but Josie Ho's portrayal is flat. I enjoyed parts of this film very much, especially the early flashbacks and the ending, but overall I feel like something was lost in translation.
2.5 eyesballs squished under a shoe out of 5.
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