Dream Home (2010) poster
2010 · horror · thriller · social

Dream Home

Directed by Edmond Pang Ho-Cheung1h 36m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.66kRT77%TMDB6.4185
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A woman will go to whatever lengths necessary to obtain her dream home with a view of the sea. This includes driving down the property value and decreasing the occupancy rate by killing her potential neighbors.

Our read · Dream Home (2010) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller · social entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want brutal Hong Kong horror with extreme gore and housing market rage.

ends unsettlingit will wreck youa rollercoastergrips by minute 25attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorenudityexplicit sexdrug use

Skip it tonightYou cannot stomach extreme violence or prefer subtle horror.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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