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Coffin Homes movie review: Fruit Chan horror comedy takes aim at Hong Kong’s property speculation frenzy




3/5 starsThe poor exploit the poor to survive while the rich kill each other to get even richer in Coffin Homes, Fruit Chan Gor’s satire on Hongkongers’ irrational response to endlessly soaring real estate market prices.Both funny and sad, it offers the bitterest indictment of the city’s widening class divide. Bizarrely, Chan delivers this social criticism within the framework of a “splatstick” horror comedy.The movie’s wild and sometimes surreal tone is set in the opening scene, when the dying…



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