Martyrs

Lucie(Mylène Jampanoï) has been kidnapped and tortured as a child and has managed to escape. She meets Anna(Morjana Alaoui) at a children hospital. Then 15 years later Lucie says she has found the family that have hold her.

It is better the less one knows about this movie.
It has been claimed to be a TP movie (torture porn) as Saw and Hostel, whom by the way are inspired by the japanese cult trilogy Shiryo no wana - named Evil dead trap in the west.
Martyrs however, is Not an TP movie.
It has more to offer, the director/screenwriter Pascal Laugier dares to ask the questions that I haven´t seen any modern director have had the guts to do.

This is no ordinary horror/splatter movie with scenes where a person say "Now I get my knife and cut you, for a long long time" or scenes close to that.
Martyrs takes you on a journey that begins as an ordinary revenge movie, twists into something completly different - and then leaves you, empty, broken and missarable.



So, one might wonder; why?
The question is why.
Thoose who have seen this knows what I mean, the rest of you, I hope you will find out.




The acting is really really good. And alltough the two girls are a mess, physicly and mentaly, they are really good looking.




I have no problem what so ever to confess that I felt ill, sick for watching this but since the script is so realistic and close to life I had to find out how it would end, hoping that they would make it, if they did? I guess you have to take that journey yourself.

A small documentury Martyrs vs Censorship
http://fredambroisine.com/videos/080903martyrsE.htm


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As much as this is a, in my book, a "F*** You* to the rest of the horror genre it also dares to ask questions about religion, humanity and facing our own demons. Or as Lucie says to Anna "Maby you should let go Anna?" In the beginning, a filmcrew goes to the place where Lucie has been held, one of the doctors then turns around to the camera and say "She wasn´t raped, we know that at least." So what did happen? Do you dare to find out? Thoose who have seen Irreversible´- the gaspar Noe´movie where monica Belluci gets analraped, you think you know what to expect, believe me, you have no idea.
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