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Coffin Homes
If you think real estate prices are high in New York, just wait’ll you see the claustrophobic spaces and sky-high rents in Hong Kong, where things are so bad for the underclasses, they’re actually starting to cohabitate with the dead. In Fruit Chan’s spine-tingling, funny-bone-tickling Coffin Homes, discounted haunted properties are suddenly hot, especially if they’re bigger than a burial box. Sometimes, the deceased are happy to have roommates. Sometimes, a bloody mess ensues. When a new vacancy tax imposes a burden on empty high-rise developers, real estate agent Jimmy (Wong You-nam of _Hell Bank Presents: Running Ghost, _NYAFF 2020) invites “poverty-flat” residents to stay overnight in a tower with all the lights on—as long as they leave in the morning. Ghost boy Lil’ Keung has waited an eternity for the chance to live in luxury, and a gaggle of gangsters isn’t gonna stop him. Bonus: Don’t miss the homage to Kubrick’s The Shining.