Gwai muk   2005   Hong Kong Home Sweet Home
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Director:Pou-Soi Cheang
Studio:Filmko Pictures
Writer:Kam-Yuen Szeto, Lik-Kei Tang
IMDb Rating:5.8 (218 votes)
Awards:1 win & 1 nomination
Genre:Drama
Duration:92 min
Languages:Cantonese
IMDb:0483908
Amazon:B000F2CA74
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Pou-Soi Cheang  ...  (Director)
Kam-Yuen Szeto, Lik-Kei Tang  ...  (Writer)
 
Qi Shu  ...  May
Kar Yan Lam  ...  Yim Hung
Alex Fong  ...  Ray
Tam Chun Ho  ...  Cheng Chi Lo / Chan Wing Man
Suet Lam  ...  Lo Wai
Peng Li  ...  Chan Kin Shing
Matt Chow  ...  Mr. Chan
Chau Hin Yan  ...  Mrs. Chan
Lisa Togo  ...  Daisy
Koan Hui  ...  Mr. Lok
Fanny Lee  ...  Mrs. Lok
Cheung Sin Ying  ...  Lok's daughter
Tam Chang Keung  ...  Mr. Yeung
Chan Wun Wun  ...  Mrs. Yeung
Anthony Tam  ...  Mr. Yeung
Wing-Hung Wong  ...  Cinematographer
Summary: Taiwanese actress Shu Qi (Three Times) plays May, a young mother who moves into a new apartment complex with her family. But no sooner have they settled in than May's young son goes missing. It transpires that he has in fact been kidnapped by a hideously deformed woman (played by Hong Kong beauty Karena Lam, from Koma, in a mountain of grotesque make-up) who believes him to be her long lost son.

May is forced into the ducts and vents of her apartment building to track down her boy, and confront this other terrifying, yet equally bereaved, mother. Directed by Soi Cheang (Love Battlefield) and co-starring Alex Fong and Lam Suet, Home Sweet Home thankfully disregards many of the staples of recent Asian horror to deliver an effective little film, capable of providing as many genuinely emotional moments as effective chills.


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