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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like The Sadness, it strands an ordinary person in a city abruptly consumed by infection, but trades its relentless public brutality for tense isolation and increasingly frayed survival instincts.
02
Why this pick
Its contamination-driven collapse shares The Sadness's nightmare of familiar neighbours becoming immediate threats, sustaining a swift, mean-spirited escape narrative with a couple fighting through civic breakdown.
03
Why this pick
For The Sadness's confrontational extremity and bleak urban fury, this vicious Hong Kong horror delivers similarly unflinching violence, blackly comic social anger, and an increasingly deranged central perspective.
04
Why this pick
Its intimate dread and uglier-than-expected violence offer a more folkloric counterpart to The Sadness: a woman faces a spreading menace that makes home and family feel dangerously unreliable.
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Why this pick
This body-horror infection nightmare shares The Sadness's visceral disgust and sense of an unstoppable condition transforming human connection into danger, told with a grimly intimate rather than citywide scale.
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01 / THE STORY
When Jim and his girlfriend, Kat, wake up one morning and spot a bloodstained woman on a nearby roof, it is one of many ominous clues that a virus is about to overwhelm Taipei. It doesn’t take long before Jim and Kat's fellow citizens have overrun the city and they are fighting for their lives.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Jim
Kat
Molly
Business Man
