Shudder has announced that writer/director Rob Jabbaz’s feature debut The Sadness, a zombie movie that was filmed in Taipei, Taiwan, will be released through their streaming service in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand on May 12th. To find out whether or not The Sadness looks like a movie you’d want to watch, check out the trailer in the embed above!
The film centers on
a young couple trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists.
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The Sadness stars Regina Lei (76 Horror Bookstore), Berant Zhu (We Are Champions), Tzu Chiang Wang (It’s Drizzling), and newcomer Ying-Ru Chen.
Shudder‘s Craig Engler had this to say about the acquisition:
The Sadness is a brutal, boundary pushing shocker, one of the boldest and bloodiest we’ve ever acquired. We anticipate it having a legendary and well-deserved following among Shudder members.”
The Sadness has been making the festival rounds up to this point, and according to the press release the film “shocked audiences around the globe and was renowned for receiving trigger warnings from genre festival programmers who had never before felt the need to use such labels.” It has been said to be reminiscent of the Hong Kong Category III (basically the equivalent of NC-17) exploitation films of the ’90s. The list of Category III films includes the 1991 classic Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. The images from The Sadness that have been released online definitely feature some gross, cringe-inducing stuff, and so does the trailer.
The film was produced by David Barker and executive produced by Li-Cheng Huang, while Eunice Cheng associate produced for Machi Xcelsior Studios.
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