Did you watch The Sadness? A Chinese zombie movie—one movie I feel was so underrated because I never heard of it, meanwhile it is more interesting than most of the big names when it comes to zombie movies. I once wrote about it. If you've watched it, you'll already know what this movie is all about because it's almost the same, but The Sadness has the upper hand in terms of plot.
Ziam is a Thai movie, and that alone piqued my interest because I wanted to see what the Thai industry would be able to put up. It's a recent movie, released in July 2025.
Singh and Rin are a couple who are barely surviving on the little they earn. The wife, Rin, works in the hospital, while the husband, Singh, does dirty and risky jobs which the wife has complained about severally, pleading with him to stop, but he couldn't obey because that’s the only job available to him. In the midst of the complaints, they both love themselves so much.
The wife went to work, and along the line, a patient was rushed in. While trying to save the man from whatever was wrong with him, he gave up the ghost. The doctor and nurses, except one nurse, left the body on the bed, and within a few minutes, the dead man jolted back to life as a zombie—and that was it. He attacked the only nurse left, and that’s how the spread began and an alarm was raised.
Singh, upon hearing that the hospital where his wife works was in danger, decided to go to the hospital to save his wife—and that’s where the peak of the movie started.
As a zombie movie lover, I love to pay good attention to their displays. The zombies in this movie are the very fast and crazy ones. They run extremely fast like the ones in Apocalypse Z, and they're not so sensible.
They face a direction and remain there until they see or sense another human around. The way these ones eat flesh is so brutal, and I love the idea and the graphics. They torn human flesh with no mercy, and those scenes looked so real. Also, there were some reactions of the zombies that I noticed, and I must applaud the editors and costume directors for putting together such a beauty. The zombies have a strange reaction where their bones can be seen kicking very hard as though trying to jump out of their skin.
Back in the hospital, when I thought it was just going to be the usual survival run against the zombies, an unexpected plot twist chipped in. A very famous man, Mar Vasus, had his wife in the hospital. When the government wanted to blast off the hospital with everyone inside—to prevent the zombies from escaping—they changed their decision when they heard that Mr. Vasus and his wife were inside. So, they sent in a special team to rescue them, but it became another big issue for Singh and Rin in the hospital. I won't spoil it for you. Go and watch it to see how it ended.
But there are flops too:
Singh refused to die, and those scenes where we thought he had died but somehow survived are very questionable. Towards the end, he got crowded by these zombies and still escaped. How? It happened like magic. As much as I was praying for him to survive while watching, I frowned at those scenes where he reappeared again.
Before I drop my keyboard, I must say the characters did well—except for the boy, Buddy, Rin's friend in the hospital. I know he acted according to the script, but some of his scenes were off, especially the awkward comic parts.
I would rate the movie a 7/10.
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Other photos are screenshot from video player