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The Sadness
Directed by Rob Jabbaz
A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable. From TMDB
109 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 2, 2026 · How this works
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The Sadness is a 2021 horror thriller film, directed by Rob Jabbaz, starring Berant Zhu, Regina Lei and Wang Tzu-chiang.
- 100 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Jul 5, 2023 to Nov 2, 2026
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60 of 109 · most liked firstA sadistic #Lastfourwatched of vileness, but I tempered it off with a silent film. Quite the #LetterboxdFriday. The Sadness is bleak torture porn, Exorcist is a genuine classic, Edge of the Park is filled with discomforting vileness, and Dr. Caligari is an influential arthouse silent film. #Filmsky
negative · AI labelView post →The creator of THE BOYS. The director of THE SADNESS. One of the most depraved comics of all time becomes one of the most depraved movies of all time. Exclusively watch the teaser trailer for CROSSED: bloody-disgusting.com/movie/397103...
neutral · AI labelView post →Random pick from my collection... The Sadness - #4K from @vinsyn.bsky.social This film goes HARD and it's fantastic! Also the packaging is just 🤌🔥 #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky #VinegarSyndrome #Horror #HorrorSky
positive · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #60 "The Sadness" (Rob Jabbaz/2021) Brutally violent, transgressive take on the good ole' fashioned infected/zombie film. Never fully sold on this one but impressed with the brutality enough to add it to the collection!
neutral · AI labelView post →My book, Hollywood or Home, turned the grand old age of one last month—my first full collection in almost twenty years. A Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year, it features a cast from film and celebrity culture—and me. Here’s a poem from it about the Sadness of the Poet—and economics. 😃
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm fascinated that a dude read Crossed, was inspired, traveled to another country to make what is essentially a Crossed movie under looser copy write laws (the Sadness) Only for that to impress the actual rights holders and is now directing the Crossed movie with a script by Garth Ennis.
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for breakfast and a horror movie! Today's randomly selected movie from my list of unwatched horror movies is... The Sadness, 2021
neutral · AI labelView post →🍿 SHUDDER Film 17 of 31: The Sadness 🩸 This movie is not for the faint of heart, scream things. Imagine the infected from 28 Days Later crossed with the gleefully sadistic humans from The Purge series. The brutality is extraordinary and difficult to stomach. Impressive practical effects, though.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE SADNESS (2021). Director: Rob Jabbaz. Berant Zhu, Regina Lei. Taiwanese shocker presents blood-soaked version of global pandemic. Young lovers trying to reunite in city overwhelmed by dangerous plague. #filmsky 📽 #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Garth Ennis' comic "Crossed" is getting a movie by the director of "The Sadness".
neutral · AI labelView post →In our new episode, we discuss Rob Jabbaz’s 2021 horror film THE SADNESS! Listen here and don’t forget to subscribe and share! allmylinks.com/thepodmortem
neutral · AI labelView post →Top 5 grossest movies of all time: 1. the Sadness 2. A Serbian Film 3. Inside 4 Irreversible 5. Tokyo Gore Police
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The Sadness over dinner last night, I'd heard it was a well-reviewed zombie film so was expecting something Train to Busan style. It was probably the most horrific zombie film ever made. Would watch while eating again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2lN...
neutral · AI labelView post →second #letterboxdfriday for october i was continuing my horror marathon so my #lastfourwatched movies were The Sadness (2021) Prey for the Devil (2022) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Assassination Nation (2018)
neutral · AI labelView post →After the more philosophical horror of Heretic yesterday, I decided to cleanse my palate with some blood. The Sadness has gone a long way towards rekindling my interest in zombie films. blasphemoustomes.com/2025/10/02/t... #ohmc #horror
positive · AI labelView post →If you're a fan of horror that goes unbelievably hard then rejoice! Rob Jabbaz' diaboloical contagion film The Sadness turns three years old today. We aren't kidding with this one, folks: content warnings for pretty much everything on this. #Horrorsky #TheSadness #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Completely unsurprised to discover the guy who made The Sadness has finally gotten to make Crossed, the movie he was obviously auditioning to make by making The Sadness
neutral · AI labelView post →thank you for the zombie movie suggestions. with 28 Years Later coming out soon I went with 28 Days Later suggested by @overshadow.bsky.social The pace & savagery from the rage virus seriously ramped up the tension for this zombie (infected) film. Speaking of rage viruses, watch The Sadness please🩸
neutral · AI labelView post →Share your favorite horror film: Vampire: 30 Days of Night Zombie: The Sadness Haunting: Ringu Creature Feature: The Host Found Footage: REC Slasher: A Nightmare on Elm Street Cosmic: The Mist (2007) Psychlogical: Hereditary Horror Comedy: Evil Dead 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Getting the director of The Sadness (Crossed with all the serial numbers filed off) to make the official Crossed movie was a pretty genius move imo
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sadness (2025 Movie Thread, #624), #Horror365Challenge (#514) #filmsky #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Madness of King George" [1994] has 94% on rotten tomatoes. Hopefully your film rights to: "The Sadness of Brainrot: How #SissySpaceX Lost All His Marbles (And Money)" will do as well if not better!
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★ review of The Sadness on Letterboxd boxd.it/8l2H7V
neutral · AI labelView post →Her idea of a date movie was THE SADNESS (2021). Despite this, it did not work out and that's absolutely for the best
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The Sadness yesterday. That is one brutal-ass film.
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching 'The Sadness' (2021), a Taiwanese zombie movie that I've seen before, but...well, zombies. I have my own little zombie story written but not published yet, I hope to get to it soon. #horrormovies #zombie #writing
neutral · AI labelView post →#Shudder may not be the CriterionChannel. It may be the most fun streaming service available. CatBusRuss reviews the love letter to Corman, “Deathstalker”. He is joined by Gregory Carl to discuss Taiwan’s love letter to Romero, “The Sadness”. #filmsky #moviesky #indianacomicconvention #stanleyxup
neutral · AI labelView post →On Monday’s episode, we will be discussing the 2021 horror film THE SADNESS! In the meantime, enjoy last week’s episode on THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and even more here: allmylinks.com/thepodmortem
neutral · AI labelView post →Garth Ennis' bloody zombie apocalypse comic Crossed is getting a feature film adaptation from Rob Jabbaz (The Sadness): reactormag.com/crossed-gart...
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a SCARY movie title that begins with the letter “S” 🎥 S is for… The Sadness (2021) 🔪
neutral · AI labelView post →#Horrorsky #HorrorChallenge 10/15 Infection/Virus Film The Sadness (2021) Director: Rob Jabbaz
neutral · AI labelView post →God, this movie was so good. Leagues better than The Sadness.
negative · AI labelView post →The Sadness is a movie i cant like.. show anyone really even though i love it, its like just deranged and anyways i just learned the director is working on a new movie thats basically the exact same concept.
positive · AI labelView post →My dad was a monster movie nerd, so he did let me watch some monster movies growing up, but I saw the Neverending Story on a trip with another family and that movie frightened me so bad. Specifically the Artax scene!! Ironically, I am now often overcome with the Sadness. Where’s my Falkor?
neutral · AI labelView post →THE SADNESS (2021) AWFUL vibes movie with incredible special effects. Has the same issues that alot of violent horror movies have, which is unrelenting violence against women, but everyone's having a bad time in this movie, so it balances more than usual.
neutral · AI labelView post →My recent fave is trying to remember the name of Wim Wenders’ film about the Japanese toilet cleaner - it came up with The Sadness of the Samurai, a novel about an aristocratic family in Franco’s Spain
neutral · AI labelView post →#blurayrelease today #terracottastore Horror Anthology boxset from Asian horrors top directors THREE & THREE EXTREMES (great cover!) Taiwanese pandemic horror hit THE SADNESS 4KUHD For kung fans 10 Chang Cheh film boxset! Shop.terracottadistribution.com #Asianfilms #moviecollection #horror
neutral · AI labelView post →Well I just watched The Sadness which is pretty much a Crossed movie so they got the right director.
positive · AI labelView post →Share your fave: Vampire Movie: Nosferatu ‘79 Zombie Movie: The Sadness, Pontypool Haunting Movie: Dark Water ‘02 Creature Feature: The Fly ‘86 Found Footage: The Backwaters Slasher: Scream ‘96, Behind the Mask Cosmic Horror: From Beyond Psychological Horror: Possession Horror Comedy: Freaky
neutral · AI labelView post →PRESS PLAY NOW on THE SADNESS Watch on Shudder #TheSadness #Vundacast #VundaHalloweenathon #WatchParty 🎥👻🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →TONIGHT! #Vundacast #VundaHalloweenathon #WatchParty Join us at 10:31 PM Eastern for THE SADNESS by Rob Jabbaz (Taiwan) The streets erupt into violence and depravity as a virus sweeps the city and the infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable. Watch on Shudder 🎥👻🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →JW: The Sadness (2021) directed by Rob Jabbaz #filmsky #horrorsky #letterboxd 🎬🎥 boxd.it/gDH3WR
neutral · AI labelView post →"You're just like me... violent and depraved." Yi Chun Wu talks about the "Taiwan's trilogy of national calamity" as metaphorized in MON MON MONSTERS, THE SADNESS, and GET THE HELL OUT. #openaccess from Journal of Chinese Cinemas doi.org/10.1080/1750...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sadness (2021) is by far the most disgusting and shocking horror film I've watched. And I think horror being genuine shocking these days can be rare!
positive · AI labelView post →Crossed the movie exists, it’s called The Sadness
neutral · AI labelView post →lol the comic is so unhinged I couldn’t believe it when I heard someone was going to try and make a movie of it. Yea if you have ever experienced real trauma you probably don’t want to see this movie. The guy who directed it did “The Sadness” and it was brutal. (But excellent)
positive · AI labelView post →30. THE SADNESS. Ugh. One truly for the freaks. The goriest, most depraved movie I've ever seen. But it's got merit, the diseased makeup is nauseatingly effective and there's a resonating idea of how selfish behavior borders on masochistic. Not sure we needed...all that to get there though.
neutral · AI labelView post →The fact that it's being directed by the guy who did The Sadness... Which was already just a Crossed movie, has me worried
neutral · AI labelView post →So Rob Jabbaz is doing an adaptation of Crossed, which his movie The Sadness was basically an audition for. Could be awesome as long as it strikes the right tone. youtu.be/rN8Ke4mWKG4?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Crossed is getting a movie and the trailer just dropped By the director of The Sadness which I kinda fucked with I am ready for this
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sadness was really cool and we've similarly got its popularity to thank for this *alleged* Crossed movie adaptation we're getting...
positive · AI labelView post →I need to add The Sadness to that list. That film is abyssal black mean.
positive · AI labelView post →Finally getting back to #HorrorMovieMonth with the 2021 Chinese film The Sadness.
neutral · AI labelView post →Go read the synopsis for the director's previous film, The Sadness.
neutral · AI labelView post →#100HorrorMoviesin92Days Movie 51 My ★★★★ review of The Sadness on Letterboxd boxd.it/7lfXPn
positive · AI labelView post →#𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗰𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 The Sadness (2021) Made after the COVID-19 lock down, this film seems to be commentary on the incompetence of governments containing the virus. boxd.it/h7uD8n #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally watching "The Sadness", and had been wondering what finally happened to get a Crossed inspired movie to happen ....welp, in the movie there was a virus that wasn't taken seriously because of an election year, and then it mutated into "Crossed without Plus-Faces" during the ensuing pandemic
neutral · AI labelView post →add “between my legs” to a movie title The Sadness Between My Legs
neutral · AI labelView post →#HorrorADayTillHalloween26 Day 48 - The Sadness (2021) Yeah, this is the film i confused with The Wailing. Very different movie. I’d seen this, but didn’t remember how gnarly it was. As close to Garth Ennis’ Crossed as i’ve seen.
positive · AI labelView post →I love the fact that they titled the movie “The Sadness” and how that relates to the virus itself. #Vundacast #VundaHalloweenathon #WatchParty 🎥👻🎬
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