Martyrs - 2008 (Page 3 of 4)

I have it on my Netflix cue,i'll catch it soon.... Chris Gore said it was really gory!

I recently watched this and thought it was great all around!!

Thank you so much.    I don't know how I missed this thread when it came back but I just saw this and I appreciate the feedback on my feedback.  LOL

I am a recovering Baptist (sheesh) myself, and so my life was steeped in fire and brimstone a lot in the beginning.  And even though I no longer believe those things, this film touched a lot of nerves for me on those levels.  It's interesting how religion weaves into the brain, huh?

This was one of the most moving films I have seen in a long time. It has a depth that makes you question how far you yourself would go to prove something.

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

I just watched Martyrs for the first time last night and was blown away by it.

Well, more precisely, I was blown away by the first half of it.  What an excellent set up!  Relentless, intriguing and bloody as hell. 

The second half was interesting, too, but less so, and not without some gaps in logic.  I completely understand what the tormentors are after, but the ends don't justify the means.  You want proof of an afterlife, so you torture and deprive young women because they're more susceptible to a pain-induced "spiritual awakening" and more liable to bear a glimpse into what lies beyond death.  Okay.  But, how about this: if you want to believe in an afterlife, take your ass to church.  You know the tormentors have to be religious zealots, so they should know that even if there is an afterlife, they're not going to enjoy it; by killing people, they're damning themselves to hell.  Which makes the old woman shooting herself at the end even more illogical. 

Okay, so, I know it sounds like I'm giving the flick a hard time, but the point is, despite what I perceive to be as its flaws, it made me think, it made me analyze, it made me wrap my brain around it.  And that's the kind of ballsy horror film we need more of.

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i bought martyrs recently and watched it for the second time the other day - i feel asleep after anna had been caught by the cultists and the old lady was talking shit -

i remember really liking the movie after the first view - after watching it a second time and not watching it fully - i feel as though it wasnt as good as i first thought - the only reason as to why i thought so highly of it, was because of the violence, disturbing nature, and special effects of the film - when i think of it - inside was a much better movie for what i like/enjoy. ie. Gory Violence

thats cause you're from croatia

I didn't like it   too much violence, not my type of movie actually..
after the movie I felt like I was brain fu***, i had to watch Pocoyo for several hours to regain my mental strenght again
i didn't had opinion until few days and I watched the movie weeks ago

I guess I'm healthy again

I am with you Moviemaven, Martyrs is not a gore movie and far from it. It's a very special movie in which it was made and it is like a emotional rollercoasters. From gasping from the cruelty, to feeling sadness from the abuse the girls adhere. And it try's to show how cruel humans can be an d to what extent man would.
Martyrs can not be compared with frontiers, its two totally oppesite movie.

In the first half I did feel for both girls.  It was easy to understand the motives of both women.  I also liked the ambiguity, the mystery.  Was Lucie correct?  Or was she just crazy?  I was on the edge of my seat.  Then the mystery was solved and I felt that suddenly I was watching an entirely different movie.  Suddenly the raw power and emotion that had so thoroughly sucked me in was replaced by tedium.  It was brutally boring.  And it didn't help that I wasn't buying the motivations behind the torture and eventual murder.  It just left me flat.

The movie went from a taut thriller to a brutal treatise on existentialism.  The torture porn equivalent of staring at the lint in one's bellybutton.  :)  At least the brutality was the common denominator between the two movies I saw.

I just watched it Martyrs again last night, for the 2nd time, and agree about the ending being a bit out there. Other than that, it was hard to turn away and I never got bored while watching. I've yet to see Inside, and love Frontier(s). While watching Martyrs there were a few times I groaned/cringed, and could almost feel the pain of those girls. I found myself  guessing if the parents she slaughterd were actually the one's who tortured her. The acting was top notch and the make up and special FX were awesome. As for a rating. I would give it a 7.5.