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tonight's feature: The Sadness (2021) on Shudder
The Sadness is the kind of movie your mother warned you about. A terrifying nightmare of a film, where a pandemic flu virus mutates and turns a portion of a Taiwanese city into sex crazed, demented murderers, like a blood-soaked porn version of 28 Days Later. On top of that disturbing premise, add in the realistic and most gruesome gore you can legally get away with in 2021.
Despite all the carnage and excessive blood, the story is solid and the movie engaging throughout with a young couple trying to reunite in the middle of absolute hellish chaos. The writers even find time to throw in some political commentary on the real world pandemic towards the end. The Sadness is wrong on several levels, but a great Halloween season scare if you can stomach the high levels of nasty body horror and maniacal slaughtering and raping and the like. 9 infected babies in the waste bin out of 10.
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