" Dream Home": Beneath the soft, romantic title lurks what might possibly be the craziest, bloodiest slasher film ever made in Hong Kong!
"Dream Home" poster designed by Josie Ho
Produced, directed and written by the
rebellious and prolific
Pang Ho-cheung
(
"You Shoot I Shoot",
"Men Suddenly In Black"), who doesn’t
give a damn that its sexual and violent content guarantees it won’t be
shown in Mainland China, "
Dream Home"
had an unparalleled $4 million production budget (amazing, considering
the current Hong Kong cinema crisis) and is also the first movie
produced and financed by
852 Films,
a company co-founded by
"Dream Home"
lead actress Josie Ho.
Josie
Ho & Pang Ho-cheungWhile involved in her role as a young,
hard working woman willing to do anything to have her own apartment,
Josie Ho revealed to
Action
Queens some exclusive information and gruesome anecdotes
about her work on the movie, both in front of and behind the camera. Let
the massacre begin!...
Frederic Ambroisine:Tell me about the
company that you founded, 852 Films.
Josie Ho: 852 Filmsis a film company I recently formed with my husband,Conroy Chan, and my manager in the States,Andrew Ooi. Our goal is to produce commercial films in Hong Kong that are more youthful, and edgier. We feel that Hong Kong produces a lot of films but it lacks edgy films, so we would really like to show people what we can do. We’d like to push our culture forward and be able to open up everyone’s view...
Josie Ho goes nuts in "Dream Home" (HK release date: May 13th, 2010)
Read the whole interview on
actionqueens.com****
Frédéric Ambroisine (Feb. 13th, 2009)