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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Shudder
- 1 h 39 m
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Shudder
- 1 h 39 m
Summary A young couple trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists.
Directed By: Rob Jabbaz
Written By: Rob Jabbaz
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Shudder
- 1 h 39 m
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Shudder
- 1 h 39 m
The Sadness
68
6.7
Summary A young couple trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists.
Directed By: Rob Jabbaz
Written By: Rob Jabbaz
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
68
57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
68
57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The Sadness is good. Not just genre-specific good, but cinema good. And even when it arrives at the inevitable ‘who are the real monsters’ scene, The Sadness still has bite.
The Sadness is incredibly gorey and gleefully embraces just about every documented taboo—but instead of an exhausting edgelord sensibility, it accurately depicts just how little convincing a crumbling society needs to obliterate itself.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
6.7
57% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
29% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
14% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
6.7
57% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
29% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
14% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
This movie is one of the most shocking and violent I've ever seen, and I love it. My only complaint is the ending that while not bad, was somewhat disappointing.
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The Sadness is one of this year's most notable works. With the insanity pandemic, people are starting to reveal all their darkest perversions most brutally. The movie's biggest plus is that it doesn't have a **** character. Watch!
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The Taiwanese horror movie The Sadness is both conceptually exhausting and viscerally upsetting—an ideal summer movie for the third year of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The acts of violence writer-director Rob Jabbaz has his characters inflict upon each other are as depraved as can be and seemingly devoid of remorse.
The recurring dependence on sexual violence as a shock tactic is, however, a desensitising misstep. Nevertheless the assured command of style situates Jabbaz as an impressive new voice in horror cinema.
For a debut feature, it’s impressive and thoroughly committed to its vision of Hell on Earth. The atrocities, bleak tension and stomach-churning imagery are unstoppable, the director deeming them necessary for maximum impact.
[Rob Jabbaz] can’t find the proper measure of finesse and shamelessness to marry his grotesque gore and violence to, given the moral lessons he seems to think he’s obligated to offer.
'Crossed' lite. The director acknowledges the influence but favours the sadism and perversion over the social commentary which made Garth Ennis' comic such an enduring and disturbing classic. A passable exploitation film nonetheless.
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Un film de zombis où les zombis ne sont pas comme… les autres zombis habituels ! ils ressemblent davantage à des cinglés dégénérés, cannibales (mais aussi violeurs !) particulièrement agressifs, rapides et brutaux… et bien tarés. Pour le reste, c’est du pareil au même évidemment avec une épidémie galopante qui sévit très sévèrement…
L’on y suit un jeune couple séparé par les évènements et qui tentent de survivre… La fille (cf l’affiche) est bien mignonne mais l’originalité de cette espèce de ‘Resident Evil’ réside avant tout dans sa violence sanglante et très sanguinolente… et souvent gore ! on a tellement de tripaille ici que ça en devient grotesque…
Pour autant, ce n’est pas assez délirant ou caricatural pour que ça en devienne drôle -ou alors rarement- et le manque de rigueur d’un scénario à la masse ne suffit pas à rendre l’ensemble crédible… en tout cas, pas plus de 5 mn ! et encore.
La réalisation est plutôt correcte mais là aussi, les défauts majeurs d’un film très creux sont la cause d’un ennui général regrettable. Même la fin en queue de poisson est assez bâclée, elle aussi… tout cela est donc un peu triste, car le film avait certainement du potentiel… mais il ne suffit pas de faire du gore : il faut aussi un vrai film tout autour !
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Production Company
Machi Xcelsior Studios
Release Date May 12, 2022
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Website
https://sadness-film.de/
Awards
Fantasia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Grimmfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Horrorant Film Festival 'Fright Nights'
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination