Advantages: Very well paced, with good acting, visually entertaining, ends with questions of morality/ethnics Disadvantages: too gruesome for some people?
This is perhaps one of the most confusing horror film I've come across in months and there's so many ways I could interpret the rather frustrating ending. It is not a film where you can get sastisfaction from. This is a French horror film that has revived my interest in the genre again; it was released recently this year. It is one of the most darkest films I have ever seen coming from the country in a while. It starts with several disjointed scenes, ... ...escape of a kidnapped girl with shaven head and scars all over her body. This is where we begin to conclude she has been through such horrors; she is taken away by authorities and put into a home. It is then evident she would never begin to recover from the ordeal completely and makes a friend for life in the home. 15 years later; we see her again. She is still haunted by her ordeal and executes her revenge. It is extremely difficult to place a specific ...
Annallon 17.08.2009
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...Hollywood in this genre and Martyrs is the most recent example of this. The film is likely to be difficult to watch even for horror fans because Martyrs isn't simply a cut and slash horror film. It's a mixture of horror and psychological thriller on a level never seen before.
The plot centres around two women, Lucie and Anna, who met as children in an orphanage. Lucie arrived there after being found by police in a dishevelled state showing clear ... ...revenge.
The violence in Martyrs has no pinnacle stomach churning moment, it is entirely ruthless and unrelenting yet this is refreshing. Martyrs succeeds where Hollywood movies have failed. The audience feels the pain of the characters as opposed to finding amusement in the methods of inflicting pain and being in awe of how 'cool' a particular violent act looks. This is due to both Laugier's script and the quality of the leads. This is no Saw or ...
CloudRuler 14.08.2009 (16.08.2009)
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