Martyrs

Name: Martyrs
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: January 22, 2016
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 22

2016

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: January 22, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Ten-year-old Lucie flees from the isolated warehouse where she has been held prisoner. Deeply traumatized, she is plagued by awful night terrors at the orphanage that takes her in. Her only comfort comes from Anna, a girl her own age. Nearly a decade later and still haunted by demons, Lucie finally tracks down the family that tortured her.Ten-year-old Lucie flees from the isolated warehouse where she has been held prisoner. Deeply traumatized, she is plagued by awful night terrors at the orphanage that takes her in. Her only comfort comes from Anna, a girl her own age. Nearly a decade later and still haunted by demons, Lucie finally tracks down the family that tortured her. As she and Anna move closer to the agonizing truth, they find themselves trapped in a nightmare – if they cannot escape, a martyr’s fate awaits them…… Expand

Director: Kevin Goetz and Michael Goetz

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Alex McCown

Jan 20, 2016

Unfortunately, in goosing the momentum, the creators of the film have lost the soul of what was essential to this horrific tale Read full review

Kenji Fujishima

Jan 18, 2016

It's hardly a desecration of Pascal Laugier's 2008 French horror film of the same name, but that assumes the original is a canonical text. Read full review

The Film Stage Amanda Waltz

May 20, 2017

Whereas Laugier’s creation forces the viewer to endure and consider every punch, kick, slap, and slice inflicted upon the female protagonists, the Goetz version prefers to shy away from or downplay the brutality, which results in the rare case of a film suffering from gore deficiency. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Jan 24, 2016

The co-directing brothers Goetz prove adept at building escape-the-bad-guy action sequences, but they continually run up against the story's Marquis-de-Sade underpinnings. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Jan 22, 2016

Both the French and U.S. iterations of Martyrs are transparently voyeuristic cheaply ginned-up Guignol peep shows with intellectual pretensions. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jan 21, 2016

A self-serving remark on the part of the filmmakers, who place only the tiniest fig leaf of a story on a panoramic canvas of the gory, gross and repellent. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Jan 21, 2016

Shatteringly stupid and repulsively misogynistic, Martyrs mashes revenge, torture and the supernatural into one solid, quasi-religious lump. Read full review

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cxnfusedminds

Jun 13, 2021

this movie is underapreciated. I watched it twice and cried in both times. idk why people hate it