THE SADNESS
In With The Id Crowd
This is why no one plays Monopoly any more.
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▶ RELEASEDOUT NOW! 2022 | TBC | SVOD
▶ Director Rob Jabbaz
▶ Cast Berant Zhu, Regina Lei, Tzu-Chiang Wang
SHUDDER An Infected movie even the Marquis de Sade might have blanched at, this Taiwan-set shocker weds the pessimism of George Romero’s work, Society’s orgiastic transgression, and the momentum of Train To Busan, to gasp-inducingly bleak effect.
It centres on a young couple, separated when a flu-like infection no one is taking seriously (ring any bells?) mutates. The Alvin virus’ new variant has two key symptoms – no, not long sideburns and a penchant for black leather gloves. It makes the affected tear up, and tear it up, as grinning sadists who enact their very worst imaginings.