Martyrs (2016)

Just perfect...

Admirable film.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Lucy (Troian Bellisario) claims she was tortured as a child (how she escaped is still a mystery) and sees monsters that haunt her. She becomes BFF with Anna (Bailey Noble) who, like the audience, doesn't know what to believe.PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD. Ten years later Lucy, somehow out of the blue, finds the couple that tortured her and blows the entire family away with a shotgun...pretty cool stuff. Then the story turns weird as Anna reluctantly goes and helps Lucy clean-up. The weird was pretty good and then we find out what it was all about: People who die with their eyes open (see cover). I prayed..."Please God, don't have the film be this stupid." Nope. It was. People who died with their freaking eyes open. I believe I would have loved the story more had it been for some DNA mutant experiment instead. Nope. Talkative people who die with their eyes open.Guide: No sex or nudity. 1 F-word as I recall. Blood, torture, graphic skin removal scene that made me cringe.

The original Martyrs is a masterpiece of horror. It transcends its own genre and is an unforgettable film, even over a decade later. The remake is a piece of crap.What made the original so great (atmosphere, score, acting, the sense of hopelessness) is gone, replaced with reality TV-level acting, endless exposition, pointless scenes and zero scares. Do not watch the remake of Martyrs. Watch the original and pretend this one does not exist. There was simply no reason for this to be made.*Spoiler, but who cares the movie is crap*I especially despise how they twisted the ending into a typical American-style revenge with everyone winning at the end. In the original, people die and the film has weight. Here, it's a bloody shootout with clichéd lines as if the film thinks it's a goddamn Commando sequel.I hated this so much.

Watch original version instead. I love original Martyrs and this one is just cheap, crap version of it. Another prove that muricans should not touch European movies.Why?Everything is wrong, from poor acting to changing main plot of the movie. So called movie miss brutality of original version and can only be viewed as typical 'saturday tit grab movie' for poor muricans.Simple waste of time nothing else. Maybe now murican movie makewrs can learn how NOT to fukk up things? One may hope...Want a good movie? Watch original Pascal Laugier's one from 2008.

I started to watch this version of Martyrs, without actually expecting any greatness. I had already seen the original version, and knew that any remake would probably be very poor. To be honest, this version isn't too bad in its own right as a horror flick, and Troian Bellisarios acting did surprise me somewhat. She played a pretty good part considering she's only really used to Pretty Little Liars. But alas, the original kinda blows this version out of the park. As the story barely mirrors the original, both in content and delivery. And I'd say most of the actual horror scenes or incidents are completely different too. If you do want to watch it then please watch the original first... You'll be glad you did.