Rob Jabbaz’ shocker debut feature “The Sadness” shot in Taipei in Mandarin Chinese and Hokkien language, had its international premiere a couple of days ago in Locarno, where it screened out of competition, causing the exact type of reaction the Canadian-born director was after. It is a film you can’t unsee, the kind of you will not easily forget for all the right and wrong reasons. Bursting with explosive violence and marked by a unique interpretation of a virus outbreak, it is both contemporary and scary as hell, offering some of the most petrifying scenes of molestation, murder and torture offered in a horror movie in recent times.
Although present at Locarno Film Festival, we were unable to meet Jabbaz in person due to different times of attendance, but we managed to finally speak about “The Sadness” over Skype to discuss its blood-drenched plotline and its mad tempo, the original interpretation of zombie-like creatures,...
Although present at Locarno Film Festival, we were unable to meet Jabbaz in person due to different times of attendance, but we managed to finally speak about “The Sadness” over Skype to discuss its blood-drenched plotline and its mad tempo, the original interpretation of zombie-like creatures,...
- 8/18/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
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