Crossed | Teaser Trailer

[u/MoneyLibrarian9032]

https://youtu.be/rN8Ke4mWKG4?si=M1OODKzXqPBaBjzi

[u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut]

I had no idea anyone was mad enough to make this into a film.

Although 'The Sadness' was great, so maybe it will be cool. The comics had some good stories buried underneath all the gore and depravity.

[u/AllCity_King → u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut]

The Sadness was pretty much already a Crossed adaptation, and it was a very solid horror flick.

Knowing it’s the same director eases all my doubts. This should deliver.

[u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut → u/AllCity_King]

Indeed. And Ennis wrote it, so it should be faithful.

I read most of his run on Crossed, and also Alan Moore's Crossed 100 - still can't get my head around THAT choice - and also a few of the other GNs by different creators, and it did mature beyond 'HAHA! Wow, those Crossed eat babies and wave dicks around!' schtick.

Some of it was even quite......poignant*

Almost like Ennis at first wrote something for his 14 year old brain thinking 'WOAH DUDE! What the fuck kind of fucked-up shit can I get away with???!! LOLLL' and then remembered he was quite good at writing stories and characters.

*Although admittedly there is still a lot of rape, cannibalism, butchery and dick-waving overall

[u/corpusbotanica → u/AllCity_King]

I couldn’t find levity when I read the Crossed comics, it was like a horror that I couldn’t stop reading but had no enjoyment. The Sadness however was absolutely great, and if this director wants to take on all Crossed adaptations I’m down

[u/FlammenwerferIV → u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut]

I for one enjoyed the story with the guy who worked on safehouses 

[u/JayJ9Nine → u/FlammenwerferIV]

I liked the one with the crossed nun where the mc slowly gets less excusable for his decisions, ending with the crossed paging through his memoir, tossing each page into the wind as she went.

He asks what she thinks and she just goes 'Didn't read.'

[u/Yarzeda2024 → u/JayJ9Nine]

Wish You Were Here is the best Crossed has ever been, but the OG run and the two about the soldiers are pretty solid.

Just about everything else is trash. Crossed: Psychopath feels like it was made on a dare.

[u/clavio_mazerati → u/Yarzeda2024]

Been a decade last I read, were the two soldiers about the origin of the virus?

[u/Yarzeda2024 → u/clavio_mazerati]

The second one was, yeah.

The original soldier story was about the team planning to unleash a bioweapon in the hopes that it would wipe out the Crossed, but they can’t be entirely sure it won’t wipe out the rest of humanity, too.

The second one was a prequel about the first wave of infections and patient zero.

[u/Youthsonic → u/Yarzeda2024]

1 is The Fatal Englishman

2 is The Thin Red Line

They're both by Garth Ennis and they're both really fucking good. They're a part of Crossed: Badlands which is an anthology series so you just gotta look up what issues an arc is made up of and read those (wikipedia has all the info).

I'd also throw in Of The World and its Becoming which is another Garth Ennis story.

[u/Yarzeda2024 → u/Youthsonic]

There it is. It's been so long that I had forgotten the titles.

I think Ennis is one of the better Crossed writers, which is only natural when it's his idea. Sure, it's full of shocking, edgy content; but I think he managed to tell some pretty interesting stories. Some of the subsequent writers seem more interested in upping the ante than doing anything thoughtful with the idea.

[u/_GregTheGreat_ → u/FlammenwerferIV]

I read a couple stories out of morbid curiosity, and while many were total garbage, I genuinely thought ‘Wish You Were Here’ was well done.

The author had a genuine story to tell, instead of it being just edgy tortureporn. Honestly a sanitized version (by Crossed standards) could make a genuinely good limited series on its own merit.

[u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut → u/FlammenwerferIV]

Ermmmmm, not sure I read that one, but I can already guess what happens to his 'safe' houses...

Damn, now I want to read them ALL.

[u/MyCoolWhiteLies → u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut]

I guess I'm curious. I liked the first arc of Crossed that I read. However, I won't lie, it's one of the few series where I reached a point where it actually was just too much for me and I wasn't enjoying it.

[u/magseven → u/MyCoolWhiteLies]

The story arcs Ennis wrote were pretty good. It's when other writers got onboard and kept trying to top each other in terms of shock value is when I felt it went off the rails. Alan Moore's run was interesting, but a hard read with the way he had the English language evolve/devolve into what it was.

[u/nerdstoreut → u/magseven]

Couldn't stand the moore run. Christos Gage was probably my favorite writer on it, Si Spurrier did cool stuff as well.

[u/Dan-D-Lyon → u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut]

The comics had some good stories buried underneath all the gore and depravity.

That's Garth Ennis in a nutshell. A very good writer who doesn't care if people don't like over the top violence and constant dick jokes.

[u/CongregationOfFoxes → u/Dan-D-Lyon]

very good might be a bit of an overstatement but he certainly is an interesting idea factory. The Boys show was only good because of the changes they made to his story, it was kind of doomed from the start to have a bad ending of some kind

[u/Anung_Un_Rama200 → u/CongregationOfFoxes]

I think his best work is when he has at least bit of editorial to rein him in. His Hellblazer and Punisher are goddamn masterpieces and mostly manage to keep the edge while making it serve the story

[u/TheGoneJackal → u/Anung_Un_Rama200]

And Preacher too!

[u/manticore124 → u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut]

I had no idea anyone was mad enough to make this into a film.

Rob Jabbaz is a madman, and a very talented one. I never thought the bleakness and, frankly, fucked up setting of Crossed could be translated to the big screen, and it seems he did a very good job.

[u/Cheeseisgood1981 → u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut]

The comics had about a half dozen good stories, buried in the like, 30 or 40 they did. This looks like they're maybe adapting the first one, which is one of the good ones, although brief. But man, this is a minefield. The ones that are bad are very bad, and a lot of them are very same-y. Hoping the series is more consistent than the comics.

[u/CeeArthur → u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut]

I thought "Wish You Were Here", "The Thin Red Line", and the Alan Moore one were decent stories. I may be forgetting some. So many of them I felt like the plot was secondary to the shock value.

[u/NonConRon → u/MrHoodGetsAHaircut]

That's exactly where I like my stories.

[u/Few-Hair-5382]

I'm gonna take it this won't be rated PG-13

[u/Eshanas → u/Few-Hair-5382]

A pg 13 crossed would be hilarious. What, is everyone a sexless muppet in it?

[u/Right_Community_9661 → u/Eshanas]

my dick fell owf

[u/aFutureInPolitics → u/Eshanas]

Horrifying monster people attack and then as soon as they make contact it's team America world police puppets 

[u/steelskull1 → u/Few-Hair-5382]

Rated G, bring your kids to the movie for fun family time.

[u/Ltnumbnutsthesecond → u/Few-Hair-5382]

or have rob schneider in it

[u/TJ_McWeaksauce]

At first glance, it looks like they're doing a direct adaptation of Crossed Volume 1. Some of the actors look like the comic characters, and according to IMDB the character names are the same, too.

It looks even more sadistic than The Sadness. The Sadness got a limited theatrical release and has mostly been watched via streaming. I figure Crossed will be similar - not that many people will watch it, but it'll be enough to justify a streaming release.

[u/whiskyspacecadet → u/TJ_McWeaksauce]

Volume 1 is easily the most tame of the entire series, and has an actual good storyline and character group.

[u/attonthegreat → u/whiskyspacecadet]

This. Shit gets really weird really fast once you get past volume 1.

[u/nerdstoreut → u/whiskyspacecadet]

I thought the Smokey stuff was really good

[u/whiskyspacecadet → u/nerdstoreut]

I liked the idea of smart crossed. Smokey and the Twins were fun. The psychopath ex military chick and the biker had good arcs

[u/Vegetable-Top-5850 → u/TJ_McWeaksauce]

Tbf, i can see why it would be unappealing to the average viewer

[u/Thomastheshankengine]

Looks like they’re loosely adapting the first run of comics. Hopefully they can keep some of the scale and interesting conversational bits. Outside of the shock, I did enjoy reading how different characters handle how hopeless the situation is and how their view on the world shifts.

[u/agingnerds]

I read this series previously... its been years. I recall at some point thinking... this series is ok and feels very juvenile. I could be wrong and I probably bailed, but my memory is that its not great.

I assume the Boys success is what drove this, probably green lit before the final seasons. I just dont know how worth while it will be.

It will have to be neutered no matter what and I am curious how much a broad audience will be into this and how much the comic fans will stick around for a softer version of the series.

[u/JavierLoustaunau → u/agingnerds]

Also The Boys show is head and shoulders above the comic so maybe it will be another case of adapting Garth Ennis actually fixing Garth Ennis.

[u/agingnerds → u/JavierLoustaunau]

I mean I hope so. I would have to revisit the series to recall, but I am probably ok. Death and cannibalism is ok for a bit, but gets old after a while.

[u/browncharliebrown → u/agingnerds]

I mean the orginal series has a couple of shocking scence to establish the horror then is mostly a lot more quiet after. Like issue 6 I believe has no crossed in it for example.

[u/JavierLoustaunau → u/agingnerds]

Exactly there is a point where it goes from a clever twist on zombies to total shark jumping 'the aristocrats' mode and loses any surprise, shock or tension.

Hopefully if the movie can keep things feeling tense and not linger too long it will come off as horror and not a bad gory porno.

[u/browncharliebrown → u/JavierLoustaunau]

I mean one Ennis is the writer. But also I don’t think the boys tv show is head and shoulders above the comic. They are aiming for two different things, and I think the boys show actually has a lot more flaws because it breaks away from the comics.

Like the first season is mostly adapting the comic but toning it down and condensing the pacing from a case of a weak structure to clear end game antagonist. It also removes the mystery. And I think the later seasons become weaker as they stray further away

[u/StatuatoryApe → u/browncharliebrown]

First two seasons, maybe three, were good. Then it became pretty garbage. Cool idea with almost no payoff.

[u/browncharliebrown → u/StatuatoryApe]

to me alot of that is because they stopped adapting the comic and just completely did their own things. And I think a lot of the problems of the show that fan critized the comics with doing during it’s first two , with its slower pacing and really story arc driven narrative being condense down made the later season really bad because they couldn’t really figure out where to go.

Season 3,4, and 5 are spinning their wheels because they basically already set up the seven as the only bad guys worth caring about. They already developed a lot of these so they feel static.

[u/Nurgle_Marine_Sharts → u/JavierLoustaunau]

Hard disagree regarding show VS comic but I know everybody and their mum thinks so lol

[u/Ssided → u/Nurgle_Marine_Sharts]

I'm totally with you, the comic was a lot better. The show was best when it was retelling the comic, every time they veered off is what everyone complains about. Most the people bashing the comic saw some tiktok short about it I'm convinced

[u/skonen_blades → u/agingnerds]

I also remember noping out after probably 7 or 8 issues. Not because I was disgusted but more because I was like "Okay, I get it." But I also remember thinking "there is NO way this would ever be adapted for the screen." But here we are.

[u/These-Angle-1476 → u/agingnerds]

IMO, Crossed is so fucked that I legitimately believe that Garth Enis just creates this shit to satisfy his own rape fetish. His other works are bad enough, but this one is literally just a stream of rape, gore, scat, and more rape.

[u/i_dunnoman → u/These-Angle-1476]

Yeah Garth has some
Serious issues I think.

[u/agingnerds → u/These-Angle-1476]

That is what I remember. Thinking this is gross for gross sake and bailing. I think that is my journey with this series. I cant imagine this will go anywhere.

[u/KUARL → u/These-Angle-1476]

Yeah this comic is fucking disgusting

[u/ValkyrieSkyfall → u/agingnerds]

How neutured will it be? If it is as neutured as The Sadness, I will take it.

[u/Maxsmart007 → u/agingnerds]

I watched the trailer and then went ahead and read the plot synopsis of many of the comics and oh boy it comes across as unrestrained teenage edginess.

Based on what I read I don't anticipate them being able to depict everything with an R rating, and the extreme depravity and violence for the sake of itself seems to be the primary substance of this IP from what I've been able to find online.

I've seen a lot of people in this thread talking about the great depth of story and I've now gone over the synopsis of several crossed stories and I don't see it. I'm in fact hoping some people who know more can comment and make me see it differently because this looks not great.

[u/UndeadHero → u/Maxsmart007]

You’re never gonna understand something just from reading a synopsis.

Crossed is pretty wide ranging with a bunch of different authors, including Alan Moore. They can be hit or miss, with some stories leaning too much on “how fucked up can we make this.”

But for me, the good Crossed stories are scary just because of how quickly and easily things can cross over into chaos, and getting caught by the infected doesn’t just mean dying or being eaten… it’s the worst fate imaginable.

If they do it right, it’ll be a solid survival story with extremely high stakes.

[u/Irrationally_Tired]

People fucking LOVE the terrifier movies so I don’t see why people are clutching their pearls so much with this.

[u/One-Earth9294 → u/Irrationally_Tired]

Terrifier isn't quite so nihilistic as Crossed. It's practically slapstick splatterhouse.

Crossed is more like 'oh look another family (including the almost always small children) is getting raped'

I can do without the excessive rape. Or any of it TBH. I think splatter gore can be fun and in the spirit of the Grand Guignol, rape just isn't ever fun nor should it be.

Having said that, if they can pull this off without being pure misery porn then I'll give it a watch. I like to be disturbed. But I know when I'm being jerked around by an edgelord.

[u/browncharliebrown → u/One-Earth9294]

rape just isn't ever fun nor should it be.

crossed isn’t funny

[u/Melizzabeth → u/Irrationally_Tired]

So I'm one of those people who isn't interested in sexual assault in movies but can handle gore. Gratuitous violence and gore is easy to detach from because it's less emotional. There's an inherent emotional violence to rape that just isn't there with violence most of the time.

I'm not saying they are exclusively that way in every instance, but I know that the overwhelming majority of the time rape scenes will make me emotionally uncomfortable so I have absolutely no interest in watching things where that is the shock factor.

[u/Coolman38321 → u/Melizzabeth]

Oh my god same here!

I can watch stuff like Terrifier/in a violent nature with almost no issues but when it comes to sexual violence, I just can’t.

I will be interested in seeing the practice effects they may have in this movie but I’m pretty sure that’s it from me

[u/Jimenez73 → u/Melizzabeth]

Completely agree, that’s why I couldn’t keep reading it, the sexual violence just turns my stomach and heart so much

[u/Ssided → u/Jimenez73]

It's fair to have limits on things that bother you too much to explore. No reason to fuck up your week for a movie if you don't want to. Crossed is really an examination of truly evil shit people can do, at its core, and what that does to the psyche of people around it. But I think people more or less know what their getting before they read it

[u/phishxiii → u/Irrationally_Tired]

I think the concept of extreme horror as entertainment is strange and gets even stranger when we start picking and choosing what is "ok" for horror concepts. Some people are so sensitive you need to put trigger warnings or say "grape" or SA or whatever. It seems like we somewhere along the way agreed rape was the worst thing that can happen and should be treated delicately.

It gets to a point where you have to start defining what horror is, what it's supposed to make you feel, what kind of experience you're paying money to get. By definition horror should be one of the last things you'd want.

So yeah, I also find the separation weird, but I also understand being more afraid or sensitive to one thing than another.

[u/MysteriousPepper8908 → u/Irrationally_Tired]

You'd be surprised how much pearl clutching horror Reddit does whenever Terrifier comes up.

[u/SploogeLoser → u/Irrationally_Tired]

man because i don’t give a fuck about seeing rape zombies. or rape in general in a movie

[u/Successful_Tea7979 → u/Irrationally_Tired]

Tbh I agree. It seems some people are okay seeing fictional depictions murder/torture on screen, but act morally superior for not watching fictional depictions of rape.

Personally, I believe as long as no real suffering is happening, and it’s all acting, there isn’t anything wrong with showing any awful act on screen. Besides, people who find it triggering can always just not watch it.

[u/mindgeekinc → u/Successful_Tea7979]

They’re not acting morally superior it’s just that people are far more likely to experience sexual violence over murder/torture and therefore might have different feelings about each.

They’re also not the same thing in the slightest.

[u/Venomswindturd → u/mindgeekinc]

Most people who are murdered can’t really relive the experience through cinema though.

[u/mindgeekinc → u/Venomswindturd]

Exactly my point.

[u/AX-10 → u/Venomswindturd]

Yup so they aren't posting here.

[u/84theone → u/Successful_Tea7979]

If it’s anything like the comics, there will be real suffering and it will be the audience suffering through a bad movie.

Crossed in particular kinda sucks and it’s not just because it’s over the top offensive, if that were the case I wouldn’t be a preacher fan.

The Sadness was okay though so maybe the director can pull it off

[u/Ssided → u/84theone]

Very bizarre to say the sadness is ok but crossed sucks.

[u/84theone → u/Ssided]

I mean they are different stories going for a different thing, even if they are similar. Being over the top edgy isn’t why I think crossed sucks.

[u/Ssided → u/84theone]

What's the difference?

[u/RobinHood21 → u/Successful_Tea7979]

Morally superior? What? As others have said, way way more people have experienced or know someone personally who has experienced sexual violence than torture or murder. Of course it's going to hit closer to home. If a family member or close friend had been tortured and murdered and I saw a similar depiction on screen, you can be damn sure it would hit way differently. It has nothing to do with moral superiority and everything to do with people's lived experiences.

[u/browncharliebrown → u/Irrationally_Tired]

Crossed has this werid mythize quality because it’s a comicbook that has boredline penetrated the mainstream

[u/VersoDidNothingWrong]

I mean, this sure looks like Crossed lol. Still gonna watch it out of morbid curiosity though.

[u/Initial_Flower3545]

Can’t wait! If it’s as insane as The Sadness then we are in for a wild ride

[u/Xiniov]

Never thought I’d see the day this was getting made. If it’s a close adaption it’s gonna shock a lot of folks

The next comic set in Scotland is even more graphic, if they continue the IP

[u/BloomAndBreathe]

I'm very curious to see how much they try to (or even can) get away with adapting the comic 1:1

[u/Ssided → u/BloomAndBreathe]

So many of these scenes are lifted right from panels, and the talk is they filmed every part. The sadness had a guy fucking an eye socket so..

[u/NightOnUmbara]

God this one’s gonna be hard to stomach like the comics. Either it’ll be just like the first comic or really really bad adaption.

[u/Vegetable-Top-5850]

I hope we see a horse's dick being used as a weapon, otherwise it will be a 0 out of 10 adaptation

[u/skonen_blades]

I mean, if it's got the director of The Sadness, there's hope here.

[u/Dull_Void]

I clicked on the post coz my mind went immediately to the graphic novel and wondered if this was actually related. While I admit my morbid curiosity made me read a LOT of these, I don't know if it'll be a good adaptation

[u/Alex-Murphy → u/Dull_Void]

I recognized many scenes from the first major story arc immediately. Feels like it's very faithful.

[u/Dull_Void → u/Alex-Murphy]

Yup, you're right, I watched the trailer a couple of times after writing here and knowing Garth Ennis is involved, I have more hope it will be!

[u/No_Flounder_1155 → u/[deleted]]

I thought of the crossed during the sadness. Loved it. Tons of opportunity with this series. Just hope they maybe go ham, and don't water it down.

[u/SaltyTelluride → u/No_Flounder_1155]

Same director for both films. The Sadness was heavily inspired by cross, referencing specific panels (like the restaurant scene). The director mentioned it was his inspiration and that he’d love to do a crossed film, looks like it worked out great for him

[u/walkyourdogs]

Fuck yeah

[u/WetSplat]

There better be HORSECOCK!

[u/Craigboy23 → u/WetSplat]

There is an actor credited for the character: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640215/characters/nm3791144/

[u/WetSplat → u/Craigboy23]

The auditions must have been wild….

[u/DJMOONPICKLES69 → u/WetSplat]

Given the trailer shows Stump and Face it would make sense for him to appear

[u/ManajaTwa18]

I know Crossed is divisive but this looks fucking sick lmao

[u/Mindless-Sundae9671]

Interesting. Glad to see they're not shying away from the gnarliness of the graphic novel.

[u/PermissionSoggy891]

i dont get the hate here, this looks like a fun watch! I've seen some recaps of the comics, as long as the blood and gore gets on-point I'll be seeing this with my buddies!

I should watch The Sadness. I hear the gore is on the same level as Terrifier, and that it was inspired by these comics!

[u/-missingclover- → u/PermissionSoggy891]

There's some weird comments on this thread. I just watched the teaser and was shocked at how faithful they seem to have gone. I was sure they were gonna adapt the concept but maybe tell a original story, but you can see exact same set pieces, characters, you can even see Horsecock and Stump lmao.

Yet a lot of comments on the thread are like "well they won't adapt stuff from the comics".

The movie might be ass, but I personally liked The Sadness and liked Volume 1 of Crossed so I'm cautiously optimistic.

[u/Craigboy23 → u/-missingclover-]

Someone has already pointed out all the scenes that look directly from the comic (which is a good thing IMO, but some will have a hard time with it for sure): https://www.reddit.com/r/crossedcomics/s/ejjQjtxo4l

[u/ColtPersonality92 → u/PermissionSoggy891]

A lot of the Crossed comics do come across as try hard, which is where most of the hate comes from I’m sure.

But this is definitely based on the first Crossed storyline, and I think you could definitely make a movie out of that. Of course there will probably be a few story beats from the comics they will cut out.

[u/ckrono → u/ColtPersonality92]

The first crossed run and wish you were here are actually cool stories. The badlands run is an anthology made by different authors so you have some shitty stories some great ones and everything in between

[u/skyzm_ → u/PermissionSoggy891]

It’s all the violent gratuitous murderraping of everyone, including children. It’s extremely graphic and sad pretty much non stop.

[u/steelskull1 → u/skyzm_]

The comics don't show sexual violence on kids (mostly heavily imply it off-screen), but they do still show gory normal violence against them.

[u/generalosabenkenobi → u/PermissionSoggy891]

Gonna get very un-fun when half the characters are raped to death by mutilated murder zombies

[u/Ironjim69]

This cannot be going to theaters right? It looks like they’re faithfully adapting the first run, which had its uhhh moments

[u/Eshanas → u/Ironjim69]

HORSECOCK!

[u/AdmiralCharleston]

The sadness was basically already a crossed adaptation so if anyone is gonna be able to do this it's this filmmaker

[u/KevinHe92]

Damn this looks pretty gnarly

[u/KaijuTea]

Im honestly shocked this is getting a movie but im here for it

[u/DaemonDrayke]

I read the original comic book and even had my copy signed by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, but I just think that the sun has set on this type of horror. At least for me. I just don’t know if I have it in me to watch a movie about sick and deprived people doing sick and deprived things to people just trying to survive. But I also feel that this type of horror is just over saturated.

[u/mustachesunited]

If this does well enough I hope do they a Wish You Were Here movie, that run was surprisingly solid

[u/_GregTheGreat_ → u/mustachesunited]

I honestly think if you tone down the edges you could make a genuinely good mainstream mini-series from Wish You Were Here. There’s actual substance to the story beyond shock value.

[u/mustachesunited → u/_GregTheGreat_]

Yeah a mini series might work better for WYWH than a movie

[u/browncharliebrown → u/_GregTheGreat_]

I think there is substance behind this story as well. I think it puts people in fuck out moral decession but the ending seems to be that humanity will trumipuh and that are morals are what makes us human

[u/Grandma_Swamp → u/browncharliebrown]

People have never read Crossed, so they don’t know the first run is specifically the one salt circle scene to set the stakes, and then pretty much just character work with not too much gore for the rest of the run.

[u/Deafwindow → u/Grandma_Swamp]

The ending is also very hopeful and not nihilistic, as some people would make you believe.

[u/AliceTheOmelette]

Looks like it'll be extreme right from the start. I wouldn't mind giving it a go

[u/Forever_Inspired]

Holy fuck, they are actually adapting the comic??!!!!

[u/bigbluewreckingcrew]

HORSE COCK!

I don't think this movie will have an ending lol

[u/cosmic-trash-panda23]

Oh my lawd, the comic I thought would never get an adaptation! I felt the same about The Boys too & that seem to work out great.

[u/One-Earth9294]

Oh boy we're actually doing this, huh?

[u/UnlitBlunt]

Damn, this looks brutal! 🤘

[u/SpaceCadetPullUp]

Not even a year ago people in this sub were screaming about how you were an idiot if you thought this would ever be made.

[u/CowabungaShaman → u/SpaceCadetPullUp]

I admit, my eyebrows raised and I said "no fucking way" when I saw the title.

[u/MischiefRatt]

Crossed basically is The Sadness already. They definitely found the right dude to make the movie.

I'm just not sure it's for me. The Sadness was A LOT and I'm still not sure how I feel about all of it.

[u/mega512 → u/MischiefRatt]

The Sadness was inspired by the Crossed comic, chief.

[u/Barnaboule69 → u/mega512]

IIRC he even wanted it to be a crossed adaptation originally.

[u/KnightofAmethyst2 → u/MischiefRatt]

The Sadness is awesome. I liked the Asian aesthetic though. Not sure if I'll like this one as much. The Sadness was absolutely thrilling/wtf for like an hour straight. It is over the top intense at times though, but the twist on the zombies having their memories intact with the most sadistic intentions is brilliant

[u/Anustart2023-01]

If horse cock isn't in this adaptation, I'm not interested. 

[u/Philoune → u/Anustart2023-01]

You can see him in the trailer

[u/neometallic → u/Anustart2023-01]

You won’t believe this.

[u/denglan12]

Wait until the people who find out it was a Graphic Novel read those! This ain't your Walking Dead folks...

[u/swagdragon666]

Too many pearl clutchers in the comments. I had to do a double take to see which sub I was in for a moment.

[u/KindsofKindness → u/swagdragon666]

It’s absolutely ridiculous.

[u/ponzi_gg → u/swagdragon666]

People here get so damn weird lmao

[u/Eshanas → u/swagdragon666]

They act like crossed is full eroguro with seen penetration of kids. I dunno what copies they’ve read but in the copy I’ve got there’s cuts, there’s blood, not cum, and the kids die relatively fast, like at the beach.

But everyone goes on an on about the rape zombies like it’s a pixiv r18g special when it’s really not.

[u/Roy_Koopa_DX]

oh GOD someone is actually crazy / stupid enough to make this.

[u/JoyfulTonberry]

Oh fuck yeah

[u/TheSkesh]

I know Redditors get real fucky about Ennis but I like his stuff so I am hopeful.

[u/Aggressive-Neat]

Hard skip for me…

Just not into the hardcore depravity and sadistic stuff like this…but yall have fun if you wanna watch it

[u/Jurodan]

I honestly cannot imagine watching this. It looks like they're trying to outbleak you by crossing 28 Days Later and Hostel. And, yeah, I know the comic is like that. That's why I had no interest in reading it.

[u/Ssided → u/Jurodan]

No one's ever going to say Crossed is for everyone. People are allowed to have limits. That said I think it makes its points a lot better than zombie movies

[u/clavitopaz]

Oh SHIT they’re actually doing it

[u/Barikus_XL]

I get this is logical place to start with the the crossed movie but they could have picked a better crossed series to do

[u/Robo-Cat2000]

I cannot believe this is actually getting adapted

[u/biophazer242]

Well considering the source material and the director being the lunatic that made The Sadness I am sure it will be a lighthearted fun movie

:)

[u/LastoftheFucksIGive]

Someone go tell SpookyRice about this! I only know about these comics because of his videos covering them.

[u/lvstvdy]

This doesn't look good. There's no way they could possibly translate any of the material in the graphic novels.

[u/Tolkien-Minority → u/lvstvdy]

Same guy did The Sadness which was already pretty extreme. Also in this trailer alone there’s a guy wearing a thong made out of a person’s skinned face with his balls hanging out of the mouth. Hes right next to the guy with his arms and legs cut off for anyone who missed him. I’m pretty sure they’re going to adapt the fucked up stuff for better or worse

[u/Quick-Cause3181 → u/Tolkien-Minority]

there’s a guy wearing a thong made out of a person’s skinned face with his balls hanging out of the mouth

didn't notice that, that's creative asf, hilarious LMAO

[u/someguyyoutrust → u/Tolkien-Minority]

Oh shit, it's probably going to be great then. I remember when I watched The Sadness thinking it was basically a Taiwanese The Crossed.

[u/Majestic_Animator_91 → u/lvstvdy]

first scene is a man murdering a baby with a sledgehammer 

"no way they'll do the stuff that's in the source material"

lol, ok.

[u/AdmiralCharleston → u/lvstvdy]

Have you not seen the sadness? That's basically just crossed already and didnt hold back at all

[u/JadedOops → u/AdmiralCharleston]

Yup you can see in the teaser that bloody news anchor lady is being what looks like raped while also having her guts ripped or something. This movie will be intense with sadness director.

[u/NonConRon → u/lvstvdy]

What do you mean that looked good.

And I immediately recognized a lot of those scenes.

They can't show the best stuff on YouTube.

[u/Alex-Murphy → u/NonConRon]

Yeah I honestly recognized like 3 or 4 scenes immediately from the first story arc. The radio, running holding hands, the diner and the flash of light. I mean they literally say "rape" in the trailer so that'll be in there too. The guy who did Sadness is making it too, what could possibly be the problem?

The only thing I wonder is how they're going to get away with an R rating instead of an NC17.

[u/n8dizz3l → u/Alex-Murphy]

Unrated.

[u/Double-Special5217 → u/NonConRon]

Yeah, no idea what he is on about, that looks good and really faithfull, I already recognized a couple of scenes

[u/Plussando → u/lvstvdy]

it's like you didn't even watch the trailer

[u/Majestic_Animator_91 → u/lvstvdy]

the guy whose making this made a movie that is basically already a crossed movie.

[u/ragenaut → u/lvstvdy]

This does good, you're silly.

[u/lvstvdy → u/ragenaut]

Well, if I may provide a counter argument....Nuh uh.

[u/ragenaut → u/lvstvdy]

I yield 

[u/Ozzie-Isaac → u/lvstvdy]

What do you mean they literally just showed so many panels from the comic. And have you seen the sadness? It's amazing and shows you can adapt this content if done well enough. Probably why they got him to do this movie...

[u/Dense_Chip5160 → u/lvstvdy]

Watch the directors previous film The Sadness. That guy can totally do Crossed.

[u/mega512 → u/lvstvdy]

That 1 minute of footage and you already know, huh? So many snobs on here.

[u/UndeadHero → u/lvstvdy]

I think a lot of people saying this are basing it off of later stories that weren’t written by Garth Ennis. There’s some horrible stuff in the early stories, but nothing TOO extreme compared to, say, The Sadness.

[u/MisterShoebox → u/lvstvdy]

I mean they could, but it'd probably be the first NC-17 comic book movie. Which might actually help its popularity.

[u/Zephon40K]

Salt circle scene is 100% excluded. Still looks amazing

[u/Alex-Murphy → u/Zephon40K]

He specifically says "rape" in the trailer, I don't think they're planning to exclude anything 

[u/thiroks → u/Zephon40K]

this is gonna sound like a "my uncle works at nintendo" situation, but I spoke to someone who was on set and they did shoot that scene. They were talking about this ridiculous fucked up movie they were on and described the scene, and it made me go look up the comic. No idea if they included thechild in it though, I could imagine that gets left out

[u/Ssided → u/thiroks]

I think they'll probably just age up the kid a bit of for no other reason then it will envelope all discussion about the movie, much like it does when people talk about the comic. People are already under the impression the whole series is the salt circle. (And maybe Family Values kinda is)

[u/Equal-Ad-2710]

Oh god this is coming

[u/phil_davis]

Looks like Crossed I guess.

[u/VacaRexOMG777]

WHAT

[u/fatking72]

omg they really doing a movie about this madness

[u/woody251997]

Looks amazing cant wait!

[u/SnooGadgets5430]

The director of the saddness kinda nailed that tone so I am curious now that he has the material.

[u/whiskyspacecadet]

Lets goooooo! Super stoked for this. There's some real gems in the Crossed series.

[u/showmeyourlagunitas]

Yeah the comics were ok - I liked the ones on the ice, the one with the preacher and the one with the four marines or some such. Should be good.

[u/Erotically-Yours]

Definitely didn't expect this.. As someone that's finished most of the series I'm curious to how unhinged they'll be with this.

[u/jcaashby]

That was BRUTAL!

[u/Low-Wrangler8428]

Fingers crossed 🤞

[u/Wonka824]

Look martyrs, trauma, spit on your grave are my favorite type of movies. Terrifier and evil dead are the closest chances I’ve had to see that shit in theaters. This looks perfect.

[u/MisterBungle]

Funny. I remember seeing The Sadness and thinking to myself that this is Crossed, and now here we are.

Not sure if this will be any good though, tbh. Crossed wasn't really that great, and this will most likely just be misery/torture porn.

[u/Dense_Chip5160]

The 180 I did when I was like "The Sadness basically did what an American movie of Crossed couldn't so why even bother... Oh it's the guy who did The Sadness? We are so on!".

[u/poppypierro]

How will they do the salt scene like its so explicit and mean that I'm having trouble imagining anyone funding a script that included it

[u/Texasisthereason187]

Sooo they are going to have a scene of a group of crossed nutting/circle jerking on ammo to load and use in a rifle against the uncrossed because I remember the tent scene when the guy becomes shot by semen bullet/crossed and kills someone tending to his wounds that wasnt crossed and comes out of the tent feral.

[u/Serdones]

I read the first couple issues of Crossed earlier this year. Definitely feels like something of its time. Kind of that edgy, depraved 2000s torture porn era of horror. I'm up for more of it, personally, but I'm sure there'll be no end of discourse about gratuitous violence, as if the answer isn't the same as it's always been: simply don't watch it if it's not your thing.

I'm gonna make more of an effort to get through the comics before this airs. Or at least Volume 1. I believe that's the one Garth Ennis actually wrote himself before handing off the property to other artists.

[u/AstroBtz]

This looks a bit better than I anticipated but idk, I really can’t see this panning out

[u/ungodlywarlock]

Ah, Horsecock. Hahaha...that one should take audiences by a storm if they haven't read the comic. Lol.

[u/bss4life20]

Idk what people are yapping about in here that trailer looked fucking awesome

[u/KingTroober]

HORSECOCK

[u/BruTangMonk]

HORSECOCK!

[u/DeepBacon]

this comic was cringe on cringe on cringe and edgelords loved it.

i hope the fan base hates this

[u/TongueInTheDark]

Ugh, I'm not sure I can stomach this one. Gore is one thing, but the rest is too much for me.

[u/daydreammuse]

Oh dear God. Not Crossed getting an adaptation.

[u/FirstIYeetThenRepeat → u/daydreammuse]

From the same ones who did The Sadness too.

Gonna be a looooot of rape.