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* EyeScream: Molly loses an eye to the Businessman. [[spoiler:Later on, he sexually violates her eye socket.]]
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* EyeScream: Molly loses an eye to the Businessman. [[spoiler:Later on, he sexually violates her eye socket.]]socket]], ''Film/ASerbianFilm''-style.
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* BigBad: The Businessman is the closest thing a film has to a main antagonist as he pursues Kat throughout.
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* {{Expy}}: The Alvin Virus infectees are one to [[ComicBook/{{Crossed}} The Crossed]].
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* {{Expy}}: The Alvin Virus infectees are one to [[ComicBook/{{Crossed}} The the Crossed]].
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* HatePlague: The Alvin Virus turns those infected by it into sadistic, AxCrazy spree killers that hunts any non-infected they can find so that they can torture, rape, kill and/or infect them. [[spoiler:Dr. Wong reveals that the virus effects the Limbic system, the part of the brain that controls aggression and the sex-drive, and that the reason why they shed BerserkerTears is because underneath their {{Slasher Smile}}s and sadomasochistic actions, [[AndIMustScream their non-infected consciousness is fully aware of what is happening and are powerless to stop]]]].
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* HatePlague: The Alvin Virus turns those infected by it into sadistic, AxCrazy spree killers that hunts any non-infected they can find so that they can torture, rape, kill and/or infect them. [[spoiler:Dr. Wong reveals that the virus effects the Limbic limbic system, the part of the brain that controls aggression and the sex-drive, sex drive, and that the reason why they shed BerserkerTears is because underneath their {{Slasher Smile}}s and sadomasochistic actions, [[AndIMustScream their non-infected consciousness is fully aware of what is happening and are powerless to stop]]]].stop]]]].
* TheHeavy: The Businessman is the closest thing a film has to a main antagonist as he pursues Kat throughout.
* TheHeavy: The Businessman is the closest thing a film has to a main antagonist as he pursues Kat throughout.
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* ScaryTeeth: For whatever reason, the infected get their teeth crooked and rotten within hours.
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** The opening sequence with the virus replicating is ''very'' reminiscent of the sequence from Rob Jabbaz's previous project, the short movie ''Clearwater''. So is the make-up and general design for the infected.
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* DoWrongRight: At one point, Jim saves a man from being tortured to death. He turns out to be infected, too, and is furious that Jim prevented further beating, as [[TooKinkyForTorture the man was close to cumming]].
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* DoWrongRight: At one point, Jim saves a man from being tortured to death. He turns out to be infected, too, and is furious that Jim prevented further beating, as [[TooKinkyForTorture [[TooKinkyToTorture the man was close to cumming]].
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Numerous instances, but one that stands out the most is [[spoiler: Dr. Wong getting half of his feet chopped off, and then being gnawed and puked on what's left of it]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The infected are actively trying to find and try out new, more cruel and more horrific ways of killing their victims, routinely torturing them to death.
* DecoyProtagonist: We've got Jim, who is poised as being the main character, but then the focus shifts to Kat, the actual main character, while Jim's part of the story gets sidelined.
* DoWrongRight: At one point, Jim saves a man from being tortured to death. He turns out to be infected, too, and is furious that Jim prevented further beating, as [[TooKinkyForTorture the man was close to cumming]].
* DecoyProtagonist: We've got Jim, who is poised as being the main character, but then the focus shifts to Kat, the actual main character, while Jim's part of the story gets sidelined.
* DoWrongRight: At one point, Jim saves a man from being tortured to death. He turns out to be infected, too, and is furious that Jim prevented further beating, as [[TooKinkyForTorture the man was close to cumming]].
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* {{Fingore}}: Jim's fingers are cut off early on in the film.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The plot takes from dawn till dusk of a single day.
* {{Fingore}}: Two of Jim's fingers are cut off early on in the film.
* {{Fingore}}: Two of Jim's fingers are cut off early on in the film.
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* TheImmune: [[spoiler: Kat. [[AmbigiousEnding Maybe]]]].
* InfoDump: Dr. Wong unloads one that lasts for ''nearly ten minutes'', briefing [[AudienceSurrogate Kat]] on the situation.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Since the result of the Alvin virus is the reduction of personality to pure id, all the infected want is to murder and copulate. In either order.
* ItCanThink: The infected are still perfectly capable of thinking and planning their actions, not to mention using tools and overcoming obstacles. Which is what makes them so damn dangerous - they might be focused entirely on killing and mauling people, but they do it in a methodical fashion. [[spoiler: As Dr. Wong points out, those people are also still perfectly aware of their actions, but just can't control themselves]].
* InfoDump: Dr. Wong unloads one that lasts for ''nearly ten minutes'', briefing [[AudienceSurrogate Kat]] on the situation.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Since the result of the Alvin virus is the reduction of personality to pure id, all the infected want is to murder and copulate. In either order.
* ItCanThink: The infected are still perfectly capable of thinking and planning their actions, not to mention using tools and overcoming obstacles. Which is what makes them so damn dangerous - they might be focused entirely on killing and mauling people, but they do it in a methodical fashion. [[spoiler: As Dr. Wong points out, those people are also still perfectly aware of their actions, but just can't control themselves]].
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* LookBothWays: The old woman from the bar gets run over by a car after focusing entirely on stalking Jim.
* LoserProtagonist: Jim is the standard "young adult without much ambition or prospects in front of him", so when the plague hits, he needs to quickly sort his shit and [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl save Kat]]. [[spoiler: He gets infected half-way through, and by the time he reaches her, all he wants to do is murder her and rape her corpse]].
* MilitariesAreUseless: They are doing their best, but things go down the drain at such a pace, there is barely anything left to salvage. Especially when [[spoiler: the Chief of the General Staff blows the head of the president on live TV]].
* LoserProtagonist: Jim is the standard "young adult without much ambition or prospects in front of him", so when the plague hits, he needs to quickly sort his shit and [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl save Kat]]. [[spoiler: He gets infected half-way through, and by the time he reaches her, all he wants to do is murder her and rape her corpse]].
* MilitariesAreUseless: They are doing their best, but things go down the drain at such a pace, there is barely anything left to salvage. Especially when [[spoiler: the Chief of the General Staff blows the head of the president on live TV]].
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* RainOfBlood: A man gets stabbed in the neck in a way that causes an absolutely unrealistic [[HighPressureBlood geyser]] of blood that hits the roof of the metro car and splashes the blood everywhere.
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* ShoutOut:
** There are enough similarities with ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' (not to mention the over-the-top nihilism and brutality) to chalk the whole thing as either a {{Homage}} or a SpiritualSuccessor.
** A movie about a HatePlague that turns people into {{Technically Living Zombie}}s has a male lead named Jim and he's trying to save the woman he loves. We're talking about ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', right?
* SleazyPolitician: The [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed fictional]] president of the Republic of China is presented as a rating hound that would do anything to get re-elected. Including first doing his very best to discredit concerns over potential dangerous epidemic and then, when it does happen, [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste trying to milk that anyway]].
* SpitefulSpit: After cutting two of Jim's fingers off, [[spoiler: Mr. Lin]] picks one, chews it for a moment and then spits it into the fish tank.
** There are enough similarities with ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' (not to mention the over-the-top nihilism and brutality) to chalk the whole thing as either a {{Homage}} or a SpiritualSuccessor.
** A movie about a HatePlague that turns people into {{Technically Living Zombie}}s has a male lead named Jim and he's trying to save the woman he loves. We're talking about ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', right?
* SleazyPolitician: The [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed fictional]] president of the Republic of China is presented as a rating hound that would do anything to get re-elected. Including first doing his very best to discredit concerns over potential dangerous epidemic and then, when it does happen, [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste trying to milk that anyway]].
* SpitefulSpit: After cutting two of Jim's fingers off, [[spoiler: Mr. Lin]] picks one, chews it for a moment and then spits it into the fish tank.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The MO of the infected is to actively seek over-the-top means of killing other people.
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* TheVirus: The Alvin virus, turning people into crazied maniacs within minutes. It's highly contagious, and it's not even made clear what the vectors are (it might be even airborne), but it spreads like fire.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3ae882d9_5e7f_43ab_a2dc_4e045073cd81.jpeg]]''The Sadness'' is a 2021 Taiwanese horror film written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Rob Jabbaz.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3ae882d9_5e7f_43ab_a2dc_4e045073cd81.jpeg]]''The Sadness'' is a 2021 Taiwanese horror film written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Rob Jabbaz.
Jabbaz, released exclusively on the horror streaming service Shudder.
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Seen by many as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}.''
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* PsychosexualHorror: The movie is centered around a virus that affects the alembic system: the part of the brain that regulates sexual and violent urges. The end result is an outbreak that turns Taiwan into a slaughterhouse overrun by uninhibited serial killers and rapists.
