Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Berant ZhuJim
- Regina LeiKat
- Ying-Ru ChenMolly
- Tzu-Chiang WangBusiness Man
- Tsai Chang-HsienWarren Liu
- Lan Wei-HuaDr. Alan Wong
- Chi-Min ChouOld Woman
- Ralf ChiuMr. Lin
- Lueh-Geng HuangKevin / MRT Employee
- Jacky LiuGeneral
Recommendations
- 91
Original-Cin
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. - 80
Paste Magazine
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. - 75
The Film Stage
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. - 75
RogerEbert.com
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. - 60
CineVue
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. - 60
The Guardian
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. - 46
Polygon
[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.
