2021 · 100 min

The Sadness

Name: The Sadness
Director: Rob Jabbaz
Released: 2021-01-22

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

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Quick Facts

Confidence: HIGH

Status: Provisional

Director: Rob Jabbaz

Why It's Disturbing

A pandemic outbreak drives widespread violence, cruelty, depravity, and survival-focused terror, with explicit indications of mass murder, cannibalism, and sexual violence. The premise also emphasizes severe psychological strain and disturbing loss of control.

Psychological20

Gore8

Bleakness18

Realism20

Dread36

Violence83

Body Horror5

Taboo46

Lingering Impact22

21.7

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The Sadness has a DreadQ Score of 29/100. The score reflects psychological impact, dread, bleakness, violence, gore, realism and other disturbance dimensions.

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