There are some horror films that are pure psychological mind fucks, over the top scares, and so much gore you feel like your eyes just puked. Martyrs is one of those films that embodies all three of these elements. The film begins with Lucie, escaping from an abandoned building and no one knows how long she has been there. before she escapes, she sees another girl strapped down on a chair, instead of helping her, she runs away making sure her own freedom is intact.
15 years later, Lucie and Anna, a girl who Lucie befriended at the orphanage she grew up in, find a house where a family lives. The parents of this family are the ones who helped capture her and torture her all those years ago. Lucie comes blasting in the house with a shotgun killing the family as soon as she can. She has to do this because after leaving that facility that held her for years, she has been having ghoulish visions of an emaciated girl attacking her until she can get her revenge.
Once the family is dead however, the monstrous girl that Lucie sees, still attacks her. Lucie calls Anna for help, but all Anna see is Lucie mutilating herself, which Lucie has been doing all these year, There never was a monster.
This is where the film takes a turn for the worse (or best depending on how you look at it). Lucie kills herself once she realizes the monster won't stop attacking her. Anna buries her body in the family's yard and spends the rest of the night in the house.
Later, sh finds a torture room in the basement where a woman is being held. She is wearing a strange metal device on the bottom of her torso, and on her head not allowing her to see. Anna helps clean her up and revive her, but when the woman can move on her own, she kills herself.
Anna then hears noises from outside and there are many people coming into the house. The family that lived there belonged to an organization that tortures people. When they find Anna alone surrounded by bodies, they believed she did this and becomes one of their victims.
The first half of Martyrs is an astounding horror romp of revenge and psychological psychosis. The second half takes a slowly more methodical turn, but it has one of the greatest horror endings in this genre or any genre. This is one of those films where once you've seen it, you can't really say much without giving away the ending. Its torture porn at it's best, but with a wallop of an ending to rival any of the great classic horror films, Martyrs has become one of the go to films for Gorror nerds everywhere. I give Martyrs 4 Shot-Gunned Family Members out of 5.
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