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Raven Banner Entertainment Unleashes Redband Trailer For “The Sadness”

Raven Banner Entertainment has just unleashed a new Redband trailer for the film that Rue Morgue has dubbed “the most violent and depraved zombie movie ever made!

Rob Jabbaz‘s debut feature sees the city of Taipei suddenly erupting into bloody chaos as ordinary people are compulsively driven to enact the cruelest and ghastly things they can imagine. Meanwhile, a young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they try to reunite amid the violence and depravity. The age of civility and order is no more. There is only THE SADNESS!

Having just premiered at the 74th Locarno International Film Festival, THE SADNESS is scheduled to traumatize audiences at Montreal’s Fantasia, (the only film that the festival has attributed a trigger warning), Austin’s Fantastic Fest and Closing night at London’s Frightfest by the end of this year.

Watch the Redband trailer from Raven Banner Entertainment, below, and for more on THE SADNESS, grab Issue #201 in the Rue Morgue Shoppe and on the Rue Morgue app!

For more on THE SADNESS, check out RUE MORGUE Issue #201!

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