Episode Details

We watched The Sadness before it was available for streaming in the US because we are a big time movie review podcast. I can easily say that this is one of the craziest movies I’ve ever seen, and will stick with me for a long time.

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Synopsis

The Sadness follows boyfriend Jim (Berant Zhu) and girlfriend Kat (Regina Lei) on their normal day in Taiwan. Unfortunately for our couple, this normal day is the day that the Alvin virus hits their city.

The Alvin virus is a pandemic that they’ve been hearing about for a while but no one seems to be taking seriously.

As the virus hits their hometown, people start to die, and worse, rape each other in the streets.

The virus causes people to cry as they assault each other while simultaneously exhibiting total ecstasy in causing pain and torture.

It seems to unlock the most reprehensible parts of people and make them capable of depravity you’ve never even seen in horror movies.

Will Jim and Kat make it through, or will the sadness take them? 

Review

Canadian writer, director Rob Jabbaz brought this manga adaptation of Crossed (Garth Ennis and Alan Moore)to Taiwan to film. This is his first full-length fe