The images are stark, bloody and dreadful — mayhem, in the commission of a dark scheme. It is difficult to imagine that the woman at the center of these scenes is Josie Ho Chiu-yee, daughter of Stanley Ho Hung-sun, the Macao billionaire gambling tycoon who, with his family, was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the 488th wealthiest person in the world this year.

Josie Ho, emerged from obscurity at the age of 19, back in 1994, when she defied her father's wishes and declared her intention to become an entertainer.

Josie describes herself as "the little black sheep" of the Ho family.

When her latest movie, the low-budget, slasher film, Dream Home, played at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City this April, and at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy on April 23, three viewers fainted and needed assistance out of the cinemas.

Ho plays a crazed killer who devises a scheme to force down the value of her dream home by killing people.

Dream Home is the first film launched by Josie's film company, 852 Films Limited, with funding from her father. She founded the company with her husband Conroy Chan in 2007. Josie is not interested in producing blockbusters. She and her husband love low-budget, edgy Indie films.

"We are different with a different vision. We cannot compete with other large-scale film companies in Hong Kong," she says. "What we are trying to do is to show people that we are different. As long as you have the vision, and as long as you believe in the project, you shouldn't hold back because of certain audiences and certain markets."

To establish an edgy style, she has been picky in choosing the script for their inaugural film. Ho does not like scripts that are too commercial. But she was thrilled when she read the script for Dream Home.

"I loved it very much when I first heard about it," she says. "The story is crazy but it is also newsy and reveals what's happening in Hong Kong."

She was so much taken by the story, she decided to cast herself in the lead role.