Dream Home (2010) ROB

Boring ass Tuesday night and my netflix has been turned off because there's insufficient funds for them to take out my payment for my next month of high quality entertainment. Where do I turn? Comcast OnDemand is home to few great things but one thing I do love about it is its OnDemand feature, mostly in part to the IFC/Sundance Select/Magnolia feature where some of us that can't make it out to film festivals but would love to see the films along with others seeing it for the first time actually can.

I totally forgot that Dream Home was getting a VOD release and upon surfing my options in the IFC section discovered it, my mind let out a "fuck yeah sigh" (I've been in the mood for a slasher, not exactly mindless but nothing bottom shelf) and ordered this motherfucker without hesitation and what I got was exactly what I hoped for.

Our main character, Cheng Li-Sheung, has been saving for an apartment with a view of the sea and overlooking the city her entire life. She works one meager job after the other and saves for what she sees as the perfect living space for her grandfather and brother. One day Cheng Li- Sheung reaches her goal and is given a look at the apartment and given an offer which she enthusiastically approves only to be changed soon after to something far more than her savings could cover, for no reason in particular. What follows is our main homegirl systematically butchering everyone she can in the building with little remorse. The gorehound in you will no doubt cheer at the ridiculousness and cringe at the overwhelming brutality of some. There is one kill in particular that made me do the whole etching my eyebrow into a question mark thing that I rarely do in response to horror movie kills, most commonly done when seeing people do idiotic extremely painful things (ie. pain olympics).

It's a simple story that I welcomed after film after film of metaphors and complex storylines that I've been partying with as of late. I love my slasher films and this delivered, my only complaint was that this could have been trimmed down, a healthy amount of shitty soon-to-be-fodder filler that could have easily been trimmed to make this a 78, maybe 83 minute affair.

3/5