Martyrs (2008)

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Best movie ever!

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This was a horrific watch. I would never recommend it to anyone. I understand some people have a different taste but this was not a horror. I have way too many questions after watching this. Why would you be friends with someone as crazy as Lucie, shes scarey as hell and gets u into trouble. Why would u go help your murderous friend? If u need to help her why would you insist on staying in the house? Why would you stay even after she killed herself? Why would you call ur mom from that house? Why would you go to the basement? And the reinforced trap door? And thats only the beginning of my questions.I felt sick. It was horrific, which im sure was the aim. But all of that for what, nothing.. Its a whole load of torture for nothingIt didnt even have a satisfying end

Lucie and Anna grew up together in a shelter form abused kids. Lucie had undergone and ordeal and is not crazy and she sees demons. Years later, she still sees demons and is out for revenge.I wanted to turn the film off in the first 10 minutes. I didn't really like the overall plot, I thought it was a bit silly. What makes this film stand out from other slashers is the realism. You can almost feel the pain inflicted on the victim.Give me fake blood and gore with girls who take showers.

When I watched this film for the first time a couple years ago, I had flashbacks. This is the most disturbing movie I have ever seen in my life. I recently found out that a supposed cousin of mine had a role in it and was also the stuntman. This is why the remake (2015) went straight to DVD because it was too disturbing to be in the theatres.

Before I say anything about story, first you should know, this is NOT a true horror movie, you can't call this a revenge movie too unlike what people are commonly telling about this film! And about the story: first you are watching a painful past of a young girl named Lucie that taken by a mysterious cult group and tortured, she escaped and is growing up in somewhere like orphanage and doctors can't cure her mental sickness but the girl keep growing and being alive for next 15 years!!! In continue you will see how hard and dangerous is her sickness, that make her easily murdered a whole family with their children and keep hurting herself but what the ...? How was she living these years?! As she has a very close friend (however you will understand its more than a friendship and more like a lesbian relationship) named Anna that take care of her but she must spend every minute of her life with her to stay her alive. These events happened in less than half of movie and those are the best parts of it! the ideas in movie are over! And remaining minutes of film are totally waste of time!Because Lucie had her revenge and killed herself and with that, the small and ONLY scary part of movie ("Lucie's paranoid vision of a creature") is over! Now what we have are just Anna and those insane cult members, they found Anna and start doing what they done to others, to her and I blame myself why I didn't use fast forward to prevent myself from seeing those sick behaviors that director put details on this part. you will watch painful scenes of tortures that have nothing to do with horror! Seeing a big bald guy mercilessly hit a small and weaken girl in every weak is more like a torture p*rn than horror or slasher movie. And at last skinned her alive! To make her see what they always looking for! She said something in ear of their boss And people being curious about what Anna saw on that moments! THB I don't give any f*ck what Anna saw! I don't know how kind of feel should I have! Why should it being important when its a result of sadistic methods!? And the boss commit a suicide before telling her followers what she heard from Anna and movie ended! The question is what is this movie about? Revenge?! Being a lover of a stupid person you will win a stupid price?! Or about to advertise that cult?! Even we forgot Lucie's events, because of misleading of story! I can not find the point because the movie is not entertaining anyway. And I guess people who enjoys this movie and its scenes are typical fans of torture p*rns and the goal is; people in p*rn doesn't graphically get hurt but in this movie they do! If you are a person who the end and meaning of the movie is important for you, just don't watch this!