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The Sadness will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on July 30 via Shudder in conjunction with Vinegar Syndrome. The 2021 Taiwanese horror film is also known as Kū Bēi.

Writer-director Rob Jabbaz makes his feature debut. Berant Zhu, Regina Lei, Ying-Ru Chen, Tzu-Chiang Wang, and Emerson Tsai star.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director Rob Jabbaz and composers Tzechar (new)

Audio commentary by film critic Simon Abrams (new)

Audio commentary with director Rob Jabbaz and medical advisor Shu

The Production featurette (new)

SFX featurette

Dictor featurette

Art Director featurette

BusinessMan featurette

Video essay by Samm Deighan (new)

Clearwater - 2020 short film by Rob Jabbaz

Fiendish Funnies - 2013 short film by Rob Jabbaz

Theatrical trailers

Booklet with new writing by film critic Brandon Streussnig, storyboards, and a gore guide

After a year of combating a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a frustrated nation finally lets its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, giving rise to a mind-altering plague. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things they can think of. Murder, torture, rape and mutilation are only the beginning. A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they try to reunite amid the chaos. The age of civility and order is no more. There is only "The Sadness."

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The Sadness (2021)

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The Sadness (2021)

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THE SADNESS [哭悲 / Ku bei] Rob Jabbaz Taiwan, 2021

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The Sadness (2021)

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（短評）映画『哭悲 THE SADNESS』

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『哭悲 THE SADNESS』（2021年、台湾、原題：哭悲 The Sadness）

流行するウィルスが変異してヒトを凶暴化する感染症となり大流行🦠街中で殺し合いが始まった中を逃げ惑うホラー映画‼️

怖い！キモい！ではなく 不快🤮（褒めてます）

不快のコンボで本当に嫌な気持ちにさせる（褒めてます）、ゾンビ・パンデミックの過激な変化球映画🧟‍♂️

すごいですコレ💧

良いテンポで次々とことが進むのはハラハラするし見ていて面白い👌

男性嫌悪的な演出がちょっと極端な気はしなくもないですが、凶暴化して迫り来る不快なオッサンのインパクトはすごい👴

目を伏せたくなる恐ろしい状況なのに、あまりにも過激すぎることが起こって、ちょっと笑っちゃうような展開も😅

ゾンビとは違って、理性のリミッターが外れてるだけで、会話もできて思考力は残ってるという設定が面白いですね👍

感染の広がり方のスピード感が良くそれが展開に上手く生かされていました‼️

数あるスプラッター映画やゾンビ映画から抜きん出た良作だと思います、不快なので万人に勧めませんけど💧

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"The Sadness", Rob Jabbaz (2021)

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Happy Spooky Sci-Fi Season!

A young woman visits a secluded riverbank to relax in the sun. When a mosquito bites her, it becomes clear that there is a secret force of nature at work. And it wants more than just a drop of blood.

Clearwater by Rob Jabbaz

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Day 10

The Sadness (Ku bei)

Year Released: 2021

Run Time: 1hr 39m

Director: Rob Jabbaz

Rating: TV-MA

Genres: Horror

Incantation (Zhou)

Year Released: 2022

Run Time: 1hr 50m

Director: Kevin Ko

Rating: TV-MA

Genres: Horror, Mystery

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Halloweentown

Year Released: 1998

Run Time: 1hr 24m

Director: Duwayne Dunham

Rating: TV-G

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family

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I still can’t believe they actually made this movie

What dark magician weaves this world, Apollo’s gift of prophecy has fallen upon me, I warned the people like Cassandra many years ago, jail for Rob Jabbaz for ten thousand years, the Merge is the future and we are its parents, etc etc etc

what I wouldn’t give to be a fly on Garth Ennis’s wall right about now

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I watched The Sadness (2021)

Getting around to some newer horror films that I let slip past my radar.

A strange infection leads to people going mad and violently attacking others.

Despite taking place in Taiwan, this film is directed by Canadian filmmaker Rob Jabbaz, who I know nothing about. I'll say this though, after watching this, I think he has a pretty good future in horror, and even action films.

With "The Sadness", has Jabbaz made a zombie film? Meh...not really. Although, it's definitely zombie film adjacent. These people are infected with something that makes them violent maniacs, but they aren't mindless walking corpses like other zombies. They can speak and run and laugh, and Jabbaz uses this new breed of deranged monster to full effect.

"The Sadness" is a gorehound film for sure. Meaning if you're a gorehound, you'll absolutely be into this one. It wastes little time getting into the violence and mayhem, which I personally enjoyed. Am I a gorehound? That's debatable. There are gore films I don't like at all, because I find them needlessly excessive and without any fun or joy to be had. The 2009 Japanese film "Grotesque" comes to mind. It was stupid. It tried too hard to be edgy, and all of its gore was sadistic in a way that felt unearned and without any entertainment value. Just scene after scene of a man torturing people in different ways, without much of a story or a point to make. "The Sadness" however, manages to entertain, while also being disgusting and violent. It builds tension, has some thrilling scenes, decent dialogue at times, crafts a new kind of zombie-film and takes us on an exciting ride from beginning to end.

To be very clear, the majority of violence in "The Sadness" is movie violence. It's big, over the top, and overly bloody theatrical effects that don't disturb the viewer in the way a more realistic style of film violence tends to do. It's very much like a lot of Zombie flicks in that way. However, It can be disturbing for some less gore-enthusiastic viewers. Even I found myself disturbed during the brief but effective r*pe in the film. It's not excessive, as it doesn't happen often or full to camera, but it definitely happens.

Mostly "The Sadness" is just a well made gore film, with enough story to keep things moving along. Does it dip into disturbing territory? Absolutely. Is it too much for people who are already seeking out this kind of film? Nope.

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Hey you should watch The Sadness (2021) dir. Rob Jabbaz

Imagine how much scarier zombie movies would be if the zombies smiled when they saw you because they were excited to finally eat. Imagine walking into a building to go and find shelter, scavenge, whatever, and you shine your flashlight into a room only to find several zombies idling there. Your light catches their eyes and they turn to look at you, their expressions desolate and empty. However, the moment they spot you, their open mouths turn to wide uncontrollable smiles and their eyes disappear into slits. They almost look friendly. Maybe even some of them manage to laugh instead of groan. How would you feel after months and months of losing people you know to smiling hoards? How would you feel after every encounter with a joyful zombie leaves you shaken and tired and fearful? How would you feel after hearing the sounds of laughter mixed in with the sounds of screaming and flesh being torn? After everything, what would your brain's wiring process do to you when you see a friend smile? Would you hate smiling? Would you feel rage? Would your brain devolve back into a time where showing one's teeth always meant a threat? What would you do if the joy of the human race was now only kept by the dead

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The Sadness (2021)

Mixed feelings about this one.

It starts off as an intense, atmospheric tribute to classic zombie movies, especially the Romero ones, with an exciting twist...that it took from 28 Days Later. But, fine. The Rage Zombie thing isn't as beat-to-death as zombie stuff in general. The characters are compelling enough that I cared what happened to them, and the real-time collapse of the world was effectively harrowing.

...For the first half of the movie. Then it goes melted chunky nutbar, and turns into an unrelenting literal horrorshow of as over-the-top and outlandish gory brutality as the mind can fathom. If a 17 year old with terrible parents keeps a secret journal of his darkest fantasies, it is filled with everything and anything that happens here.

Which in and of itself isn't a bad thing. And is even in keeping with the spirit of the old Romero movies, where he and Tom Savini used as much exploding foam rubber and pig offal as they could afford to sicken audiences in the 1970s.

Which makes me unhappy that I don't love it here. I mean the gore and the ludicrously terrible situations are great fun, for all of their eager cartoonish excess. But therein lies the problem - it isn't disturbing or chilling after this stuff kicks off in earnest. All of the unnerving darkness is abandoned for anime-esque explosions of unrealistic fake blood.

You can do one type of movie, or you can do the other type of movie. ...Or if you're Romero, you can manage to blend them in a way where they inform each-other. Sadness isn't a Romero movie. It lures you in with promises of an intense zombie apocalypse metaphor for us and our sad little real world, but before it gets there, it turns into what would happen if you released a zoo into a prison and filmed it.

(This is like the one image from this movie that won't trigger anybody.)

Again, both halves of the movie are done well. Separately. They just don't ever feel like more than two separate short films stapled together. So each part is an A, but the whole is a slightly disappointing B-.

The gore part is an A, but their decision to have the rage zombies deliver modern day Joker monologs about how much they loooove bein' bad is utterly goofy and I don't see the point. You already showed us everything they are capable of. I believe they like it. I don't need a 1970s Dr. Who villain speech after the dismemberment. Maybe the goofiness is the point, since this half of the movie is so extreme that excess itself in all forms may be the desired aesthetic. I appreciate that, but that aspect was too ridiculous for me.

It's still a pretty good movie, especially if you want to see the absolute limits of practical gore effects circa 2021. And if you've ever pictured a horrible thing happening to someone, this movie probably shows you the closest you are ever going to see of what that actually looks like. I just wish it came as part of the better horror movie it started out as.

Also, yes this was made in Taiwan, in Chinese, with Taiwanese actors. But the writer / director is Rob Jabbaz, a Canadian. I don't know if that matters, but I feel like it should be pointed out. The people I watched it with were going on about how East Asian horror is better than Western horror because [RACIST EXOTIC TROPE HERE]. But that doesn't apply if a Canadian was involved.

I'm not taking anything away from the guy. But this movie isn't some kind of secret window into what Taiwanese people are afraid of or something, if you're doing that with it. People can just make crazy horror movies in places. It doesn't have to carry more weight than that.

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Flirting between the genre boundary-lines of a high-stakes thriller, a gruesome virus-centric horror, and an unconventional romance — Vincent Must Die bravely traverses its sea of inundated influences with unsubstantiated strides. Borrowing heavily from Rob Jabbaz’s The Sadness and Susanne Bier’s Bird Box; Vincent Must Die tumbles down a familiar rabbit-hole of contrived conflicts, akin to the…