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[real fucked up horror time again] The Sadness, 2021
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Taiwanese horror movie about a virus that makes you evil
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like a zombie movie but the zombies are still alive and wholly intelligent
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and not just trying to kill people
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but trying to torture and slaughter in the most vile ways they can imagine
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and delighting in it
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it is. VERY gory
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here's how you build suspense
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you establish that premise, and have a bunch of people just running around cackling as they break people's arms and pour boiling oil on each other in restaurants and shit,
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then you have a 3 minute scene on a train
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where an old guy talks to the heroine on a train a little too aggressively
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and you're just wondering--
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jesus christ that was so much blood
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that was a KNIFE WOUND
that was a KNIFE WOUND
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creepy train man is in fact infected and just he has a fire axe now
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15-20% of the population of Taiwan is infected
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oh there goes the president
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exploded with a grenade to the mouth on live TV
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uh oh
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I think the male lead is infected
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oh
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creepy train man is VERY dead
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one of the deader men I've seen
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oh darn that was someone else
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okay that is PRETTY dead
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for real this time
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oh that's an infected baby
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this guy is giving a lot of rational explanations
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for why he killed eight babies
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I don't think he's even infected
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oh he's infected
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that was
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a lot
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The thing that gets me about this is that it was apparently heavily inspired by a Garth Ennis comic series, which is simultaneously surprising and not (with the main surprise being "who the hell is checking out Crossed these days?")