Yes, this is Sunday's Movie on Tuesday. Get over it.
"Martyrs" is a French film that came out in 2008... What can I say about it? It's not for sensitive people. You'd have to be a strange person to enjoy it. However, it had an impact on me (however unpleasant) and I admire it for being original and unapologetic. It's the definition of "horror," when so many crappy, cliched, unimaginative, and unscary movies belong to the genre.
The movie begins with a young girl, nearly naked and bruised, hair shorn closely to her head, running down a slummy street. She is fleeing from someone and in incomprehendible terror. Her name is Lucie and she is taken to an orphanage, where she meets another little girl named Anna. They become the closest of friends. Anna has her own troubled past, but it pales in comparison with what Lucie has experienced... Though we never learn the true nature of that experience until much later. The two cling to one another.
15 years later. A family sits down to breakfast. Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister. They eat breakfast, laugh, chat about school activities. Their house is richly-furnished and filled with light. Someone rings the doorbell. Dad goes to answer...
I won't say any more. "Martyrs" is a highly original and disturbing film. When I say disturbing, I mean it's reached a level people like Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino have only dreamed of, and then wake up screaming for their mommies. "Hostel" is Saturday cartoons compared to this movie. If you choose to watch this movie, I highly recommend you don't eat or watch it with anyone else in the room. I have watched, read, and heard horrible, disgusting, and unpardonable materials. This film knocked me on my ass. It's the most disturbing movie I've seen, bar none.
So my recommendation is to watch it, but only if you like having every particle of regard for humanity sucked from your veins. And then drunk by a demon and urinated out onto a heap of rotting heads.
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