Martyrs

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

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.

What’s left after the gore is stripped away is a mildly bloody, meatless horror.

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.

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.

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.

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

I thought it was a movie with a unique story and a unique storyline. When I watched the trailer of the movie, I thought of the movies Hostel and Saw. I feel like I've only seen such brutal acts in movies like this one. I think people who like movies like Hostel and Saw will enjoy it.

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.

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.

Muy sangriento, muy inapropiado, deberían prohibir y eliminar esto en todo el mundo

Uno de los remakes más desastrosos que existen, este simplemente no tiene razón de ser, malisimo y absurdo.