The Sadness
Shudder | Release Date (Streaming): May 12, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Original-CinThom ErnstMay 10, 2022
The Sadness is good. Not just genre-specific good, but cinema good. And even when it arrives at the inevitable ‘who are the real monsters’ scene, The Sadness still has bite. Read full review
80
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganMay 10, 2022
The Sadness is incredibly gorey and gleefully embraces just about every documented taboo—but instead of an exhausting edgelord sensibility, it accurately depicts just how little convincing a crumbling society needs to obliterate itself. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsMay 12, 2022
The Taiwanese horror movie The Sadness is both conceptually exhausting and viscerally upsetting—an ideal summer movie for the third year of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Read full review
75
The Film StageJared MobarakMay 10, 2022
The acts of violence writer-director Rob Jabbaz has his characters inflict upon each other are as depraved as can be and seemingly devoid of remorse. Read full review
60
The GuardianPhuong LeMay 26, 2022
The recurring dependence on sexual violence as a shock tactic is, however, a desensitising misstep. Nevertheless the assured command of style situates Jabbaz as an impressive new voice in horror cinema. Read full review
60
CineVueMartyn ConterioMay 10, 2022
For a debut feature, it’s impressive and thoroughly committed to its vision of Hell on Earth. The atrocities, bleak tension and stomach-churning imagery are unstoppable, the director deeming them necessary for maximum impact. Read full review
46
PolygonAusten GoslinMay 11, 2022
[Rob Jabbaz] can’t find the proper measure of finesse and shamelessness to marry his grotesque gore and violence to, given the moral lessons he seems to think he’s obligated to offer. Read full review
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