The Sadness (2021)

The Taiwanese horror flick The Sadness (2021) is part of the long and proud tradition of hyper-violence in Asian genre films. Inspired by Garth Ennis' 2012 comic Crossed, the film takes place during a global pandemic that has turned ordinary people into bloodthirsty monsters bent on killing anyone and anything they come across. Young couple Jim (Berant Zhu) and Kat (Regina Lei) prepare to go about their usual routine on the day of the first major outbreak, and soon find themselves allied with a disparate and desperate group of strangers somehow unaffected by the plague. Frankly, this isn't a terribly sexy film, though it does open with a shirtless scene from leading man Berant Zhu, but it is quite literally all downhill from there!