Line #3 Film/DreamHome


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3	->''"A 2007's survey shows that the average monthly income of Hong Kong people is HK$10,100. But there are still 24% of people who aren't up to that line yet. Since the handover, Hong Kong's income rate has increased by 1%. But in 2007 alone, house prices shot up by 15%. In Hong Kong, a flat of 600 square feet costs more than HK$7 million. Flats with harbor view can reach HK$30,000 (US$3,200) per square foot. In a crazy city, if one is to survive, he's got to be more crazy."''
4	-->-- '''The Opening'''
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6	''Dream Home (維多利亞壹號 Wai dor lei ah yut ho, lit. Victoria No. 1)'' is a 2010 Hong Kong SlasherMovie.
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8	!! This film provides examples of the following tropes:
9	* TwoByFore: The second prostitute has a broken wooden plank forced down her throat.
10	* AbusiveParents: In a flashback, Sheung's frustrated father hits her while she is fighting with her brother, but is instantly remorseful.
11	* AccidentalMurder: While in a manic state, the wounded second prostitute slits Officer Man's throat.
12	%% AerithAndBob
13	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Sheung gets knifed through the foot.
14	* AnachronicOrder: There are two timelines. One is Sheung's systematic murder rampage and the other is backstory indicating her obsession with the apartment.
15	* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: [[http://b.dv1.us/p1/235/166235-d1.jpg One DVD cover]].
16	%% BloodbathVillainOrigin
17	%% BloodFromTheMouth
18	* BoomHeadshot: Officer Fat's death.
19	* BreastAttack: The second prostitute gets shot in the breast.
20	* TheCanKickedHim: The first prostitute gets her head bashed into a toilet until it breaks.
21	* CuteButPsycho: Sheung.
22	* DeathByFallingOver: While struggling with Sheung, a man falls over and lands on a table jaw first, apparently breaking his neck.
23	* DelinquentHair: Blondie's blue mohawk.
24	* DisposableSexWorker: A pair of victims.
25	* EyeScream: A maid gets stabbed in the back of the head and out of an eye with a screwdriver.
26	* {{Fingore}}: Blondie loses some fingers when Sheung rips the knife out of him.
27	* FreudianExcuse: Flashbacks chronicle Sheung's obsession with this particular apartment, starting as far back as 1991.
28	* GolfClubbing: A businessman gets whacked with one of his own clubs.
29	* {{Gorn}}: Verging on TorturePorn.
30	%% GratuitousEnglish
31	* GroinAttack: While struggling with Cheung Jai, Sheung kicks him in the nuts, and later she slices On Jai's dick off.
32	%% GrossUpCloseUp
33	* GuttedLikeAFish: Blondie, though it doesn't kill him.
34	%% HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday
35	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: On Jai, repeatedly.
36	* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Cheung Jai gets stabbed in the neck with a broken bong.
37	* ImprovisedWeapon: Sheung attacks a man with a golf club and a clothing iron, and stabs Cheung Jai with a shattered bong after he breaks it against her head.
38	* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Sheung's father.
39	* ItsAllMyFault: Sheung blames herself for her mother's death.
40	%%* KarmaHoudini
41	* TheMistress: Sheung, to an unnamed businessman.
42	%% NamelessNarrative
43	* TheNineties: When most of the flashbacks take place.
44	%% NoTellMotel
45	* OneLastSmoke: With his guts literally hanging out, Blondie tries to take one last puff of a joint. Unfortunately...
46	--> "Shit, it's gone out."
47	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Blondie.
48	* SelfMadeOrphan: In order to ease her financial burdens, Sheung lets her father die when she could have easily saved him.
49	%% SexSignalsDeath: On Jai and the second prostitute.
50	* SexyPackaging: [[http://dv1.us/p1/030/168030-d0.jpg A Blu-ray cover]].
51	* SlashedThroat: While attempting to get the flex cuff wrapped around his neck off, the building guard ends up slitting his own throat with a box cutter. Later, Officer Man gets his throat slashed by the deranged and injured second prostitute.
52	* SpiritualSuccessor: Could potentially be seen as one to the rather crappy 1987 slasher ''Open House'', which was about a homeless man murdering real estate agents, angry over his lot and life and inability to acquire a place of his own.
53	* TheStoner: Cheung Jai and On Jai.
54	* ThoseTwoGuys: Cheung Jai and On Jai.
55	* ThreeWaySex: Cheung Jai and the prostitutes are up to it, but On Jai isn't, since the last time they had one, Cheung Jai accidentally gave him a facial.
56	* TinCanTelephone: What Sheung uses to communicate with her childhood friend, Jimmy.
57	%% TitleIn
58	* TokenMinority: The Filipino maid.
59	* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: They appear in a flashback, forcing people out of their homes.
60	* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The main storyline, and the one chronicled in flashbacks.
61	* TurnOfTheMillennium: 2007, with the occasional flashback to an earlier year.
62	%% UnnaturallyBlueLighting
63	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory / BasedOnAGreatBigLie: There is no one case that this matches up with. Yes, people have killed for houses. Yes, murder will drive real estate prices down for the affected property. Otherwise, the film has no particular basis in reality despite claiming to be based on a true story.
64	%% VillainProtagonist
65	%% VomitIndiscretionShot
66	* WeaponsThatSuck: Sheung sticks a bag over a woman's head, then sucks all the air out with a vacuum.
67	* WouldHurtAChild: The vacuum bag victim was pregnant.

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