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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Anchor Bay Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Anchor Bay Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m

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 he...

Directed By: Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz

Written By: Pascal Laugier, Mark L. Smith

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Anchor Bay Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Anchor Bay Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m

Martyrs

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
22
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 User Ratings
3.4
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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 he...

Directed By: Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz

Written By: Pascal Laugier, Mark L. Smith

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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46% Mixed
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54% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
22
0% Positive
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46% Mixed
6 Reviews
54% Negative
7 Reviews

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50
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
By Alex McCown FULL REVIEW
42
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.
By Amanda Waltz FULL REVIEW

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 User Ratings
3.4
24% Positive
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24% Mixed
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52% Negative
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User Score
Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 User Ratings
3.4
24% Positive
6 Ratings
24% Mixed
6 Ratings
52% Negative
13 Ratings

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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
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JLau
Sep 25, 2020
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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40
May 20, 2017
What’s left after the gore is stripped away is a mildly bloody, meatless horror.
By Henry Barnes FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Chuck Wilson FULL REVIEW
25
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.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
10
Jan 22, 2016
Depending on what you need from horror like this – shock followed by relief, or a brutalization fix – Martyrs is bait-and-switch, or it’s a drawn-out tease that makes good. Either way, it’s a sop to vile tastes.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
0
Jan 21, 2016
Shatteringly stupid and repulsively misogynistic, Martyrs mashes revenge, torture and the supernatural into one solid, quasi-religious lump.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
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mbeckford
Oct 9, 2020
Why is that most remakes of international horror are so inept? And it seems like more times than not they are directed by the same original director (this is an exception)? Skip this and go straight to the French original.
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Tez555
May 6, 2020
Let me start by saying, i'm not a person to hate on a film just 'cause it's a remake. I've enjoyed The Ring, The Grudge, The Eye... All the "The" films apparently. But my god this... This was terrible. It's the appitomy of a watered down American remake, the ending is just, well, if you've seen it you know. The original Martyrs had such a graphic, shocking ending it stuck with you for weeks. This, not so much. I won't slate the acting like alot of people, they were all fine I guess, but one thing that truelly annoyed me was the terrible shotgun sound effect. When there's the first gunshot out of the blue near the beginning that should be a jumpy crap your pants moment, but the shotgun sounds so ridiculously pathetic it's laughable. Please, I emplore all of you, just watch the original.
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Panchogul
May 29, 2020
Uno de los remakes más desastrosos que existen, este simplemente no tiene razón de ser, malisimo y absurdo.
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JK-2018
Mar 24, 2019
This was a truly pathetic attempt to remake an incredible movie. See the original 2008 film directed by Pascal Laugier, not this lame Hollywood remake. Just as when a great painting is created by an artist, you come off as a fool to copy it, so it is the case when a film is made so perfectly, so spot on, you become a buffoon in trying to duplicate the original masterpiece.
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Production Company Blumhouse Productions, The Safran Company, Temple Hill Entertainment
Release Date Jan 22, 2016
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The Ultimate Horror Movie
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/martyrs.3585/
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Awards

Young Entertainer Awards
• 1 Nomination

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