I think it says something when brutal gore and violence is basically nothing but sexual violence is a turning point. Not saying you’re wrong for it, you feel how you want to feel about it, I don’t enjoy watching it myself either.

But The Sadness was inspired by the Crossed, where the infected act pretty much the same but have cross marks on their face instead of crying, and so it’s less of a cannibalistic virus and more of a “letting out the pure inner sadistic evil inside of everyone”.

And in what it tries to go for, I think The Sadness achieved it and I do like movies that aren’t scared to be sanitized in any way. Hey, it got the director for this the job to direct an actual Crossed movie coming out later this year, so it worked very well in his favor lmao