
Movies that feel likeThe Sadness (2021)
If you loved The Sadness, the closest films we have are Kill List (2011), [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014) and Green Room (2016). All three share The Sadness' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Pool (2018).
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If The Sadness hit the spot, these will too

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath
The difference: Leans harder into crime than The Sadness does
![[REC]⁴ Apocalypse poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vbflx4rDj3YrRAAk4HSWsEgZVlK.jpg)
The same preoccupation in both: virus
The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than The Sadness does

Tense and gritty in the same breath

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

Tense horror in both cases
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Both keep coming back to the same thing: virus

Thriller built on grit, twice over

One thread runs through both: rape

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

Both sit in the same tense register
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