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Garth Ennis' infamous Crossed comic book series is finally moving forward with its long-awaited feature film adaptation.

Per Upcoming Horror Movies, The Sadness writer and director Rob Jabbaz has officially signed on to direct the hotly anticipated and highly controversial live-action adaptation of Crossed. The film is currently expected to begin filming in March, with Jabbaz directing from a script written by original series creator and fan-favorite comic book scribe Garth Ennis alongside original series artist Jacen Burrows. Six Studios, Retro Entertainment, and Nightsky Productions are producing the film, although currently no details are available regarding its leading or featured cast.

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Jabbaz said of the project, "It has been a real delight working with Garth Ennis and...

Garth Ennis has written some great, popular comic books over the years, with some of his work including the creation of the books Preacher and The Boys, and fan favorite runs on Marvel’s The Punisher. Preacher and The Boys have both gotten TV series adaptations, and ideas from Ennis’s Punisher books have made it to the screen. Five months ago, it was announced that the Ennis-created horror comic Crossed is also getting an adaptation, with the independent company Six Studios picking up the rights to make a film based on the series. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that the Crossed film is set to be directed by Rob Jabbaz.

Ennis has written the screenplay for the Crossed film, which takes place in a pandemic-stricken world, in which those who catch a disease are marked with a cross-like rash on their faces. Those afflicted follow their...

If you thought The Boys was bloody and brutal, you've got another thing coming, as the upcoming Crossed movie just landed a rising horror director. Crossed, published between 2008 and 2010, was written by Ennis, with illustrations by Jacen Burrows. The feature film adaptation was announced in August last year, and it was confirmed that Ennis was writing the script from his own comic book series. Now, the movie just got a major update, and it's one step closer to filling our screens with blood.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Crossed has found its director in Rob Jabbaz. The Canadian director is best known for 2021's The Sadness, a Taiwanese zombie horror movie, which he wrote, directed, and edited. The Sadness is the perfect stepping stone for Jabbaz to oversee the new Crossed movie, as, just like Ennis' graphic novel, the zombie flick doesn't hold back with its graphic depictions of murder and violence.

After being heavily inspired by Crossed with his feature debut The Sadness, filmmaker Rob Jabbaz will next direct an adaptation of the Garth Ennis comic, Variety reports.

Ennis, who also created “The Boys” and “Preacher,” penned the script, based on the original 10 issues of his Jacen Burrows-illustrated comic published by Avatar Press between 2008 and 2010.

Crossed is set in a pandemic-stricken world in which those infected with a disease — marked by a cross-like rash on their faces — follow their worst impulses, turning them into homicidal maniacs.

Six Studios is behind the project with an expected budget in the $2-3 million range. A March filming date is being eyed.

“It has been a real delight working with Garth Ennis and Six Studios developing Crossed for the big screen,” says Jabbaz. “From day one, our primary goal has been to deliver a faithful adaptation of the original series, along with a few new surprises.

While the Taiwanese genre scene has seen plenty of stellar and high-end success recently in the wake of titles like “Mon Mon Mon Monsters” or “The Sadness,” Taiwan first emerged on the zombie market with this effort from genre director Joe Chien back in 2012. Keeping things straightforward for this first go-round toying with the genre, not only would Chien improve on this style later on in his career but so did the rest of the country with later genre efforts advancing nicely from what was started with this one.

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Following a viral outbreak, a radiation leak from a nuclear power plant spreads a mutated virus across Taipei which starts to turn the populace into flesh-eating undead. The government tries to prevent the spread of the zombie plague by creating a quarantine zone and sending in Swat teams to evacuate civilians and wipe out the ghouls.

Streaming has been a positive for many independent filmmakers who want exposure (especially for the horror genre), but there has always been a downside. The lack of physical release of these films has haunted the industry, something that is starting to be rectified. According to Variety, some Shudder horror films will get a proper release for some limited editions. The horror streaming service has joined Arrow Video to get their films to fans who may not have a Shudder subscription. Many titles slated for release include Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s early work in Nightwatch, the 2024 sequel, Nightwatch: Damons Are Forever, and the prolific Adams family’s inventive supernatural film, Hellbender. Other titles released are The Sadness, Deadstream, Speak No Evil, Huesera: The Bone Woman, and Perpetrator. Most of the films are getting US and UK releases except for Hellbender, which is only getting released in the United States.

Even if the quality of the series from the US seems to deteriorate with time and the plethora of offerings, Asia, on the other hand, seems to retain and even increase the level of standards regarding drama, with the transition from towards “TV” of Korean talent, and the ever present ‘workaholism’ of the actors in J-dramas leading the way. Add to that the fact that the production values, with the streamers investing more and more, continues to get higher, the opening to Indonesia, which seems the next big market, and the heavy investment by Taiwan, and you have the backbone of what is happening in the drama world at the moment. In that setting, the awards “Shogun” got in this year’s Golden Globes seems like the cherry on top.

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2020 brought about a surge in apocalyptic films, pioneering fresh takes of the classic genre as our very own viral outbreak strengthened its grip around the world. Amid this influx is a zombie horror that truly is meaner and nastier than any apocalyptic film combined, taking us on a hedonistic joyride of fleshy gore and berserk horror. But what really makes 2021's The Sadness stand apart from its peers is the scariness that comes from being able to see ourselves in the infected. Director Rob Jabbaz ensures this mindless headtrip haunts us by turning a magnifying glass onto ourselves. The film shamelessly stares into the depraved depths of humanity and viciously ponders on what a human is capable of if we truly do not care about the consequences.

Raven Banner Entertainment, the Toronto-based genre outfit that attended AFM last week, has promoted Michael Da Silva to general manager.

Da Silva previously served as manager of sales and acquisitions, and has been a core part of the team for six years, working on titles like Frankie Freako, The Sadness, and Yummy.

In his new capacity, Da Silva will oversee all facets of the company.

Michael Paszt, Raven Banner managing partner, said: “The past few years have shown a lot of growth at Raven Banner, of which Michael has been a driving force, and we’re confident that Michael will...

When 28 Days Later hit theaters in 2002, it instantly became a favorite among horror fans, who were enthralled with the film's fast-paced action and zombies that attacked with break-neck speed. With its themes of infection and subversive political commentary, 28 Days Later has received praise from critics and fans alike as a film that shifted the paradigm and brought the zombie film back to life. However, long before 28 Days Later, Nightmare City, released in 1980 and directed by Umberto Lenzi, amped up the speed and savagery of the zombie film while also establishing a commentary on the escalation of the nuclear arms race.

The films of Umberto Lenzi exist in multiple subgenres. In Cannibal Ferox and Eaten Alive!, Lenzi took the savagery and brutality of the Amazon cannibal film to new heights, a subgenre he had helped start with Man from Deep River in 1972. His giallo films, Seven Bloodstained Orchids,...

The term "brutal" has often been used to sum up the essence of Damien Leone's "Terrifier" films, with its central terror, the unsettling Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton), being the one behind increasingly gruesome acts. The first "Terrifier" featured some really boundary-pushing kills within the gore/slasher genre mold, while "Terrifier 2" solidified the franchise's appeal by widening the scope of its spine-chilling premise. Wretched, sensationalist excess is the name of the game here, and it is not surprising that the upcoming "Terrifier 3" has further raised the stakes, with its disturbing opening scene having caused walkouts during the film's U.K. premiere. The "Terrifier" franchise's sadistic edge can be boiled down to Art's inherently vile motivations, which are never personal, but sudden, arbitrary torture-and-kill instincts that seldom follow any pattern, making him more dangerous than most fictional killers with a distinct modus operandi.

"Terrifier 3" recently had...

AMC Networks’ Shudder has announced the titles that will be available on the streaming service next month. The Shudder September 2024 slate includes horror, thriller, and supernatural titles.

The September highlights include the films The Demon Disorder, In a Violent Nature, and Oddity, as well as the TV series Horror’s Greatest and The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs.

Shudder’s expanding library of films, TV series, and original content is available on most streaming devices in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Demon Disorder Shudder August 2024 Highlights

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The Australian demonic family drama centers on Graham, a man haunted by his past since the death of his father and the estrangement from his two brothers. Jake, the middle brother, contacts Graham, claiming that something is horribly wrong: their youngest brother, Phillip, is possessed by their deceased father.

A feature adaptation for one of the most depraved, boundary pushing comic books ever, Crossed, is currently in development. THR reported late last week that The Boys and Preacher comic creator Garth Ennis has penned a script that’s been acquired by indie outfit Six Studios to finance the adaptation.

Crossed is set “in a pandemic-stricken world, in which those who catch a disease are marked with a cross-like rash on their faces. Those afflicted follow their worst impulses — think a zombie apocalypse, but instead of zombies, these are humans who retain their intellect but are homicidal maniacs.”

If that plot sounds familiar, it might be due to the extreme horror movie The Sadness, with filmmaker Rob Jabbaz drawing clear inspiration from the gnarly comic book series.

The original 10-issue series that inspired the movie adaptation ran from 2008-10, with the series spawning more than 200 issues from various writers and artists,...

Crossed, the viciously violent comic book series, is getting a feature film adaptation. Garth Ennis, who co-created the original comic, will even be penning the script for the movie.

The Hollywood Reporter has reported that a Crossed film is officially in the works. It's the third comic book worked on by Ennis that will be given the live-action treatment following Preacher and The Boys. The Crossed film will be developed by Six Studios after the indie company acquired the script. As of now, the search for a director is underway with plans to start filming this fall. No cast members have yet been attached to the project.

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Klayton, the multifaceted musician known for his work across movies, TV, and video games, and bestselling writer and film producer Joshua Viola have teamed up to form Bit Bot Media. The cutting-edge multimedia company will spearhead the creation of original films and video games, along with "a diverse range of licensed comics, music, apparel, and merchandise such as latex masks, toys, and more." Today, they’ve unveiled a teaser video for the company, and we have your exclusive first look, along with more details on their new partnerships.

Bit Bot Media has forged a strategic partnership with Raven Banner Entertainment, a prominent indie Canadian film studio celebrated for its innovative genre films from around the globe. Together, they will collaborate on an array of ancillary offerings and film productions. Raven Banner’s recent productions include Steven Kostanski’s Frankie Freako, Nick Cutter’s The Breach, and the Shudder Original hit...

Clockwise from bottom left: Halloween (Compass International Pictures); Hellbound: Hellraiser II (New World Pictures); Mandy (XYZ Films); Re-Animator (Empire Pictures); Chopping Mall (Concorde Pictures) (Screenshots: YouTube) Graphic: The A.V. Club We’re halfway to Halloween, and even though October 31 is still six months away, there’s still one place...

Clockwise from bottom left: Halloween (Compass International Pictures); Hellbound: Hellraiser II (New World Pictures); Mandy (XYZ Films); Re-Animator (Empire Pictures); Chopping Mall (Concorde Pictures) (Screenshots: YouTube)Graphic: The A.V. Club

We’re halfway to Halloween, and even though October 31 is still six months away, there’s still one place...

28 Years Later must bring back John Murphy's iconic theme to connect to its franchise predecessors. Murphy's music has become synonymous with the series, making it a crucial element for the sequel. The iconic theme can subtly tie all three movies together, even if plot and characters are unrelated.

While 28 Years Later may not be closely connected to the earlier movies in the series, there is one element of the franchise that the sequel needs to bring back. 28 Days Later was an incredibly influential movie. Many elements of the British horror movie’s formula became commonplace in later zombie movies, with 2004’s Dawn of the Dead and 2009’s Zombieland both borrowing 28 Days Later’s fast zombies. Meanwhile, 28 Days Later’s lethally dangerous disease that turned its victims into rage-crazed monsters inspired the viral Taiwanese horror movie The Sadness, which offered an even darker spin on the premise.

Winter’s chill is nothing compared to the spine-tingling, bone-chilling selection Shudder has lined up for this season. As the nights get longer and the darkness swallows the light a bit earlier each day, what better way to embrace the eerie than with a curated list of horror that promises to keep you at the edge of your seat?

From suburban nightmares to dark fantasies that blur the lines between pleasure and pain, Shudder’s Winter 2024 lineup is a horror aficionado’s dream—or should we say, nightmare? So, grab your favorite blanket, double-check those locks, and dive into our top 10 must-watch horror movies. Just remember, when the scares get too real, it’s only a movie… right?

Shudder 10. Destroy All Neighbors (2023)

Struggling prog-rock musician William Brown’s life spirals into chaos when he accidentally kills Vlad, the neighbor from hell. This darkly comedic horror takes suburban disputes to a deadly level,...

New deals on upcoming horror Terrifier 3.

The Coven has hired Toronto-based Anelle Dehghani as head of sales to kick off the year on a slate which includes Terrifier 3, the next instalment in the cult horror franchise.

Dehghani previously served as director of domestic distribution and international sales at Raven Banner, the genre specialist headquartered in Toronto, where she began her career more than a decade ago.

The executive has focused on bringing elevated genre films to the global market with titles such as The Autopsy Of Jane Doe, Tigers Are Not Afraid, and The Sadness.

The Coven currently...

Every year, horror fans and aficionados attempt to take on the daunting task of watching a horror movie for each day in the month of October. Aptly named 31 Days of Horror, the challenge usually consists of viewers watching a mixture of their favorite classics, recent releases, and popular genre staples that may be new to them. In celebration of the spooky season, we at MovieWeb have curated our own suggestions for the month, providing a plethora of favorites from our contributing writers and editors. Check out our 31 Days of Horror posts every day this October, and embrace all the freaky found footage, vicious vampires, and stalking slashers you could ever hope for. Today, we kick off Day 29 with the incredibly grisly social horror film from Taiwan, The Sadness.

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, there was an overwhelming sense of empathy and comradery as people from all walks...

The zombie subgenre of horror has reached a point where fans will either enjoy the same old zombie outbreak story where humans turn out to be the real threat or will look for something completely out of the ordinary that commits to reinventing the lore of such a classic creature.

Zombie movies tend to follow well-known formulas these days, introducing hordes of zombies and deadly outbreaks that quickly render humanity unable to move forward; it wasn't always like this. Before George A. Romero popularized the figure of the modern zombie, these flesh-eating monsters were directly tied to folk horror, coming to life in mystical rituals. Nowadays, it's difficult to find zombie movies ahead of the curve, but they're still out there.

The Sadness (2021)

The banalization of violence in horror movies is something that could easily backfire. Given how often scenes of graphic violence and the brutality of certain death scenes...

Stars: Ezequiel Rodriguez, Demian Salomon, Luis Ziembrowski, Silvina Sabater | Written and Directed by Demián Rugna

When Evil Lurks (Cuando Acecha la Maldad) is the new feature film from Argentinian director Demián Rugna. Rugna assured himself a place in horror history with his film Terrified in 2017 and then vanished off the scene until his segment in last year’s Satanic Hispanics. Thankfully he didn’t make us wait another five years for something new, and When Evil Lurks premiered this year at TIFF as part of its Midnight Madness program.

Appropriately enough the film starts somewhere around midnight when Pedro and his brother Jimmy are awakened by the sound of gunshots somewhere in the woods. Going to investigate the next morning they find a body, or half of one anyway, with a strange device nearby and a notebook in a language the brothers don’t recognize nearby.

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We are prompting discussions with our new ‘opinion piece’ section titled Shock & Cheese and in this first article the discussion is on the zombie genre.

Yes, the Zombie genre “shot its load”. The Masters of Horror TV series episode titled “Clive Barker’s Haeckel’s Tale” directed by John McNaughton showed the Dead doing that on screen. The Zombie genre has been dead for a long time time. The carnivorous dead started by George Romero has always been about the ultimate consumer society be it consuming people or haunting a mall.

The Zombies of “Classic Horror” reflected the time as the term referred to those that “blindly” followed orders be it by signing up to fight a War, doing someone’s evil bidding or working in a sugar cane field.

Today, Zombies are self-made monsters anyone can costume themselves up as and walk about mindlessly. Zombies have lost their precociousness...

Debuting as an actor back in 2011 with Giddens Ko's “You Are the Apple of My Eye”, Kai Ko has since gone on to become a formidable name in modern Taiwanese cinema, even winning a Golden Horse Award for Best New Performer and a Taipei Film Award for Best Actor over the years. In 2022, he took over the directorial chair from Giddens Ko for “Bad Education”, a script written by Giddens that he was supposed to direct but ended up being Kai Ko's debut behind the camera. In addition to the support of his first director, Kai Ko also had the support of Midi Z, who he worked with on “The Road to Mandalay” and who acts as a producer on “Bad Education”.

Bad Education is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival

On the night of their graduation from high school, three drunk best friends Chang, Wang and Han decide that,...

The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are back here in 2023, with Fangoria officially announcing the nominees and beginning the voting process this week. Unlike the Oscars, the Chainsaw Awards are voted on entirely by the fans, and now is your chance to let your voice be heard.

Fangoria previews, “This past year in horror has been an absolute feast of frights, and we are so excited to celebrate outstanding achievements in horror film and television with our 2023 Chainsaw Award nominations.”

“We shouldn’t be surprised at the lack of love horror received from mainstream awards this year, but 2022 was an embarrassment of riches for the horror fan, and to see none of it nominated by the bigger institutions was a bit of a shock. As ever, Fangoria is happy to pick up the slack,” Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobile Jr. said in a statement.

“The genre excellence on display in 2022 encompasses veterans and new voices,...

Stephen King’s creative output is the stuff of legend. The number of stories that have flowed from that man’s brain, like water from a tap that can’t be shut off, is staggering. They’ve been followed by a similarly jaw-dropping number of film and television adaptations, to the point that some have argued the best of his tales have already been bled dry.

But you only have to crack open one of Stephen King’s short story collections to find many more quality pieces yet to be brought to the big or small screen. The following are four of my personal favorites. They span multiple genres and highlight the versatility of King’s fertile imagination.

If I go to my grave having seen any or all of these given cinematic life in the wake of The Boogeyman finally coming to the screen this year, I’ll be a happy camper…...

On Friday, Fangoria and Fangoria Studios released their 2023 Chainsaw Award nominations, which recognize outstanding achievements in horror film and television. First established in 1992, the Chainsaw Awards honor works and artists in a genre frequently overlooked by traditional organizations and critics groups. Past recipients include Wes Craven, George A. Romero, Lupita Nyong’o, Anthony Hopkins and Elisabeth Moss.

“Nope,” Jordan Peele’s follow-up to “Us,” received the most nominations of any film in Chainsaw Award contention, with 10 nominations including best wide release movie and best director. Other nominees include “Barbarian,” “Pearl,” “Hellraiser,” “Chucky” and “Yellowjackets.” Fangoria also introduced two new categories this year: Best Short and Best Cinematography.

Founded in 1979, Fangoria has become one of the most influential horror brands in the genre, living up to its moniker as “First in Fright.” At one time the only place on newsstands where fans could read about the world of contemporary horror, Fangoria...

Every month during 2022, I had a new film competing for my favorite horror film of the year. Significant theatrical experiences like "Barbarian" and "Nope" surprised me with ingenious storytelling. The small screen independent movie experiences with films like "Terrifier 2" and "Bones and All" broke free of my expectations. Even the wide selection of straight-to-streaming movies on my many apps like "Hellraiser," "Prey," and "Fresh" challenged in every way their theatrical counterparts. 2022 was one hell of a year for horror films. We had movies to celebrate, discover, grow reacquainted with, and travel to new territories. It was amazing to see such a variety of genre filmmaking on so many different levels. Here are my favorite horror films of 2022.

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Rob Jabbaz's 2021 horror film "The Sadness" is one of the most intense, most violent films in recent memory. It follows the pattern of traditional zombie films, in that a viral outbreak turns large portions of the population into mindless monsters, but in the case of "The Sadness," people are turned into homicidal maniacs who become intensely driven by the evilest possible impulses. An infected victim can still speak and plan, but now have no compunctions about killing others, eating their flesh, bathing in blood, having blood orgies in public, and ... well, many other horrifying things that will not be listed here. 

The story is a bare-bones affair. A young couple (Regina Lei and Berant Zhu) are in an awkward place after a bad argument and have each gone out to work. When the "rage" outbreak hits, they must each survive a sudden assault of wrathful, cackling, lustful, bloodthirsty maniacs.

Karim Ouelhaj’s Fantasia winner “Megalomaniac” has been selling widely, now adding North America (Dark Star Pictures), France (Factoris Films) and Scandinavia (Njuta Films) to its growing slate.

Media Move manages sales for the world, with XYZ in charge of North America.

“The feedback from the festivals has been enthusiastic and we noticed a real ‘craze’ [for the film] from female spectators. I find it especially touching,” Ouelhaj tells Variety, noting its viewers praise his fourth feature for “leaving its mark.”

“[They say] you keep thinking about it for days, it sticks to your skin and your brain. I’m happy to hear it’s not forgettable. The only ones who are disappointed, which is rare, [come in] expecting an entertaining slasher.”

Produced by Okayss and Les Films du Carré, the film was inspired by the terrifying case of a Belgian serial killer nicknamed “The Butcher of Mons” in the 1990s. He was never captured.

Apart from...

Horror fans looking for something new to stream this October are in luck, as we’ve got the rundown of where to stream 79 horror movies from 2022.

The slasher “X” and “The Black Phone” with Ethan Hawke — which are both set in the ’70s — are now on streaming, as is Jordan Peele’s “Nope,” David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” and Rob Zombie’s take on classic ’60s sitcom “The Munsters.”

And you may have missed these foreign films: “The Innocents,” a Norwegian movie about children who misuse their supernatural powers; Austria’s “Luzifer,” which earned lead Franz Rogowski a Best Actor award at Fantastic Fest; Dutch folk horror film “Moloch;” “The Sadness,” an extreme body horror/zombie movie from Taiwan; “Saloum” from Senegal, which The Guardian called “slick gangster horror in wild west Africa;” and “Speak No Evil,” in which a get-together with a couple from Denmark and one...

From the Predator mutilating colonizers in Prey to the UFO raining blood on the Haywood household in Jordan Peele’s Nope, this has been a great year for gore in horror cinema. Most recently, audiences have been thrilled and horrified in equal measure by the blood and guts spilled in Terrifier 2.

From the blood-soaked Evil Dead remake to the sickening violence of The Sadness to the boundary-pushing body horror of Bone Tomahawk, Redditors have been shocked by the gore in these classic scary movies.

Evil Dead (2013)

Usually, horror fans despise modern remakes of untouchable horror masterpieces from yesteryear. But the 2013 Evil Dead remake is a rare exception, using modern visual effects technology to amplify everything that made the original so terrifying.

According to Redditor u/vvitchfinder, this remake is even gorier than its predecessor: “Evil Dead remake gets a bit loose. During the final 10 minutes, the screen is literally just red.

From slashers, to zombies, eco horror, and much, much more, MoMA's "Horror: Messaging the Monstrous" is a 10-week film series that includes 110 films, including a 3D screening of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead! Featuring horror from around the world and taking place from June 23rd through September 5th, we have all the details so you can start planning your visit! Full program details can also be found at: moma.org/horror

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The Museum of Modern Art announces Horror: Messaging the Monstrous, a 10-week film series that includes over 110 features and a selection of short films that capture the horror genre’s uncanny ability to express the lurking fears of a society and the anxieties caused by social, cultural, and political change. Presented in the Museum’s Titus Theaters in the Black Family Film Center from June 23 through September 5, 2022, Horror: Messaging the Monstrous is organized weekly...

Stars: Brianne Tju, Ali Gallo, Benjamin Wadsworth, Peter Giles, Lo Graham, Uriah Shelton, Drew Scheid, Joshua Mikel, C.J. LeBlanc | Written by Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton | Directed by Marcus Dunstan

Unhuman begins with title cards proclaiming it ”A Blumhouse Afterschool Special” and “Presented by the Student Teach Division (Std)”. That was the last thing I was expecting from a film by director Marcus Dunstan and his long-time co-writer Patrick Melton. While the three Feast films had their share of humour the duo are better known for more serious fare such as several of the later Saw films as well as The Collector and its sequel, both of which Dunstan also directed.

And it does begin like an Afterschool Special, Ever goes from dealing with her overprotective mother to being picked up by her best friend Tamra (Ali Gallo; Before I Go) who nearly hits Randall on their way to school. But...

On this episode of Daily Dead's official podcast, co-hosts Scott Drebit, Derek Anderson, and Jonathan James discuss Rob Jabbaz's relentlessly intense infection film, The Sadness, as well as the 1991 horror comedy Popcorn, and they also talk about some of their other recent viewing experiences, including Lucio Fulci's The Black Cat, Luigi Cozzi's The Black Cat, Cutting Class, and Everything Everywhere All at Once.

You can listen to the new episode of Corpse Club right now on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, YouTube, Pandora, and SoundCloud!

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After a two year absence Horrorant was back in Athens, Greece, ready to feed the needs of its audience.    Over eleven days attendees got to catch up on some of the best offerings from the international genre community these past two years. Favorites like Luz: The Flower of Evil, Post Mortem, The Sadness and Mosquito State came to town.    All four were winners at this year's festival. After careful consideration, the jury of festival- which I was honored to be a part of this year- chose Mosquito State for best picture with best director honors going to Filip Jan Rymsza.    The beauty of Luz: The Flower of Evil is still pretty unmatched two years later which is why we gave the Cinematography...

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Chow Yun Fat’s ‘One More Chance’ to be relaunched at the market.

Taiwan’s Distribution Workshop is set to introduce Cannes buyers to Philip Shih’s horror Antikalpa and relaunch Chow Yun-fat drama One More Chance.

Antikalpa is a Taiwanese supernatural horror that centres on a group of high school students who are lured into practicing mysterious rituals with demonic results. Adapted from a bestselling novel by Ling Jing, the film is set for a November release.

The cast includes Huang Guan-Zhi (TV series Detention), Regina Lei (The Sadness) and Tseng Wan-Ting (Gatao - The Last Stray). It marks...

Stars: Regina, Tzu-Chiang Wang, Berant Zhu | Written and Directed by Rob Jabbaz

I watched The Sadness knowing that it already had quite the reputation. I’d read parts of reviews that had spoken about the misery, the horrific and sadistic scenes, the over-the-top violence and depravity and much much more. As a long time and hardcore horror fan that has seen (almost) everything, I wasn’t expecting something pretty horrible.

I can’t say that The Sadness disappoints in that regard either. It lives up to that reputation but more on that later. Clearly influenced by the current pandemic this is set in a World which is in about the same place we are now but the virus all of a sudden mutates, leading to much worse things than have come before it. Now those infected are inflicting unforgivable crimes on their victims – rape, murder, mutilation and torture are happening...

Shudder brings the wild, crazy, bloody and controversial zombie movie The Sadness to the table this week, with the film set to debut on the platform on May 12, 2022. While we wait, Bloody Disgusting has scored an exclusive clip from The Sadness to whet your appetite, and it’s thick with suspense while teasing the film’s […]

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The Sadness is coming to Shudder- plus more horror gems to stream in May 2022! The weather is already getting hotter, and so are the streaming services when it comes to horror programming. That means an insane selection of titles to check out this month, from rare slashers arriving in late May to under-the-radar gems […]

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Hello and Happy May, everyone! Now that a new month is officially underway, that means we have a new batch of digital and VOD releases headed to platforms in the coming weeks, and to help you plan accordingly, we have a rundown of what to expect in terms of horror and sci-fi digital debuts during May 2022.

Shudder has a lot of great new horror headed to its platform this month, as well as the 2022 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards on May 15th, and if you’re still not feeling comfortable heading into theaters just yet, you can even check out the new Firestarter adaptation on May 13th when it arrives on Peacock. Other films getting a digital and/or VOD release during May include Riley Stearns’ Dual, The Innocents, Monstrous featuring Christina Ricci, and Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching.

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Escape the Field (Lionsgate) - May 6th

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Stars: Paula Silva, Franco Rilla, Pilar Garcia, Daniel Hendler, Malena Sanchez | Written by Juma Fodde | Directed by Gustavo Hernández

Virus: 32 is the latest in the seemingly neverending stream of zombie, or zombie adjacent, films that have come our way since George Romero rebooted the genre with 1968’s Night of the Living Dead. This time it’s a plague of the kind of viral zombies such as we’ve seen in everything from 28 Day Later to Strain 100 and The Sadness being unleashed on Uruguay’s capital city of Montevideo by director Gustavo Hernández and writer Juma Fodde (You Shall Not Sleep).

Iris (Paula Silva; In the Quarry) works as a security guard at an athletic facility. She’s estranged from her husband Javi (Franco Rilla) and has a young daughter Tata (Pilar Garcia) whom the opening dialogue suggests she rarely sees. And now he’s dropping her off and Iris forgot she agreed to take her,...

The Sadness shocked festival audiences and now its heading to Shudder! Here's the official acquisition announcement, revealing that The Sadness will be released across Shudder in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand on May 12th:

"Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has acquired rights to Canadian director Rob Jabbaz’s feature debut The Sadness following its impressive festival run that began at the prestigious 74th annual Locarno Film Festival and celebrated screenings at the Fantasia International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest, where the film took awards for Best First Feature in Montreal and for Best Horror and Best Direction in Austin. The film will be available exclusively on Shudder in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday, May 12.

Said Craig Engler, general manager of Shudder, “The Sadness is a brutal, boundary pushing shocker,...

After premiering at Fantasia last summer, zombie horror movie The Sadness has now been acquired by Shudder, with the film set to debut on the platform on May 12, 2022. Deadline broke the news today. Director Rob Jabbaz’s feature debut, The Sadness centers on “a young couple, played by Regina Lei (76 Horror Bookstore) and […]

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Horror network Shudder has acquired the rights to The Sadness, directed by Rob Jabbaz and shot on location in Taiwan. The film is produced by David Barker and executive produced by Li-Cheng Huang, while Eunice Cheng associate produced for Machi Xcelsior Studios.

The Sadness follows a young couple, played by Regina Lei (76 Horror Bookstore) and Berant Zhu, trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists. Tzu Chiang Wang (It’s Drizzling) and In Ru Chen also star.

“It’s been such an enjoyably bizarre journey getting The Sadness made and distributed! I’m incredibly excited for everyone out there to finally see it!” said Rob Jabbaz.

The Sadness was renowned for receiving trigger warnings from genre festival programmers who had never before felt the need to use such labels. Likened to as...

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A rogue virus temporarily halts a speedy nation. A pompous president politicizes a deadly pandemic. Science and facts are ridiculed in favor of returning to some sense of normality before the experts deem it safe. Everyday citizens categorize the crescending mutation as nothing more than a hoax. Said citizens become quickly afflicted by the supposed 'hoax' and suddenly aren't feeling so hot. Riots break out. Bodies pile up. Illness sweeps the streets. Death comes to town. First-time director Rob Jabbaz sets his sights on mainlining familiarity in "The Sadness," and the...

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Tonight in Manchester, England, Grimmfest has drawn to a close and the ‘Grimm Reaper’ awards have just been handed out in a live streamed ceremony. Oh-seung Kwon’s Midnight was awared the Best Feature by a jury made up of UK Horror Channel's managing director Stewart Bridle, director Justin McConnell, US actress and director Natasha Halevi, Diabolique magazine editor Kat Ellinger, and UK based actor and director Dominic Brunt. They gave a special mention to Rob Tabbaz’s The Sadness, which the audience voted their most favorite film of the year. Mark O'Brien's The Righteous was a multi award winner, for Best Screenplay and Cinematography. Likewise Jeremiah Kipp's Slapface took home two awards for Best Score and young August Maturo won Best Actor. All...

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The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival ended its 6th edition last Thursday with the sold-out closing night East Coast Premiere of Rob Jabbaz’s The Sadness at Nitehawk Cinema and announced today its jury and audience award winners. Launching on October 14th with the NY Premiere of Mlungu Wam (Good Madam), Brooklyn Horror is proud to have welcomed back an eager and excited audience who packed the cinemas after a one year pandemic related hiatus and hosted a majority of sold-out screenings, with special highlights being the festival’s 35mm projection of Session 9, presented for its 20th anniversary with lead actor and co-writer Stephen Gevedon in attendance, and the US Premiere of local filmmaker Edoardo Vitaletti’s debut The Last Thing Mary Saw, with Rory Culkin and Vitaletti present for the Q&a.

Further highlights of the festival include the world premieres of Adam Randall’s Netflix Original vampire feature Night Teeth...

Other winners include ‘Blast’, ‘The Righteous’.

Oh-Seung Kwon’s Korean thriller Midnight has won the best feature award at UK genre festival Grimmfest, which ran as a hybrid in-person and online event this year.

The film, which debuted in South Korea in June this year, centres on a deaf mother and daughter who interrupt a serial psychopath as he attempts to claim his next victim, only to finds his wrath redirected toward them instead. Korean sales firm Finecut is handling sales on the title.

Scroll down for the full list of winners.

The award was chosen by a jury consisting of Stewart Bridle,...