From the Minds Behind The Boys and The Sadness: The Crossed Movie Teaser is Finally Here

The Cross Is Carried: Garth Ennis and Rob Jabbaz Drop First Teaser for Crossed

If you have spent any time in the grittier corners of indie horror comics, you already know the reputation of Crossed. Created in 2008 by Garth Ennis (The Boys, Preacher) and artist Jacen Burrows for Avatar Press, the series was not merely dark—it was practically engineered to test the limits of what print media could legally show. For over a decade, fans assumed Hollywood would never dare touch it with a ten-foot pole.

Hollywood didn’t. Extreme indie horror did.

The first teaser trailer for the feature adaptation of Crossed is officially out in the wild, directed by Rob Jabbaz—the visionary behind Taiwan’s relentless viral splatterfest The Sadness—from a script penned by Ennis himself.

A Match Made in Nihilism

Pairing Jabbaz with Ennis feels less like typical Hollywood packaging and more like an unholy pact. When The Sadnessblew the doors off the international festival circuit, audiences immediately noticed its structural kinship with Crossed: an airborne contagion that does not turn victims into shambling, mindless ghouls, but instead strips away every scrap of impulse control, leaving infected individuals fully conscious, deeply creative, and consumed by sadism.

Now, Jabbaz gets to play with the genuine article. Marking its victims with the trademark cross-shaped rash across the bridge of the nose and cheeks, the film follows an embattled crew of survivors attempting to navigate a landscape where humanity’s darkest impulses run rampant. The cast features Devin Druid, Ash Santos, Bob Morley, and Chido Nwokocha leading the desperate fight for survival.

What the Teaser Reveals

Clocking in with an unyielding atmosphere of dread, the teaser establishes the bleak, dusty visual tone of Ennis and Burrows’ original ten-issue run. It doesn’t rely entirely on cheap jump scares; instead, it leans into the pure psychological weight of knowing that once the world falls apart, reason isn’t coming back to save you. We get flashes of iconic survivor figures like Stan and Cindy, along with unsettling glimpses of the infected hunting in pack mentalities.

Is live-action cinema ready for Crossed? Probably not. But for fans who appreciate practical effects, uncompromising apocalyptic dread, and horror that refuses to sand off its jagged edges, this could easily end up being one of the defining indie genre events of the year.