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Watch: Martyrs 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – Fifteen years after a horrifying experience of abduction and prolonged torture, Lucie embarks on a bloody quest for revenge against her oppressors. Along with her childhood friend, Anna, who also suffered abuse, she quickly descends, without hope, into madness and her own delusions. Anna, left on her own begins to re-experience what Lucie did when she was only twelve years old..
Plot: A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 95,854
	64% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 2185 Popularity: 31.603 | TMDB

Reviews:

I wrote this once to describe my philosophy on what movies/TV I like:

“Ravenous fan of dark, edgy movies & TV. They should glue you to the screen and stay in your dreams.”

Martyrs is one of a handful that describes that perspective to the T, and it is the kind of horror movie that you should go in completely clueless about the plot to enjoy the many twists that you won’t see coming.

A big caveat: this is “advanced” horror — gut-wrenching, gory and very disturbing. Definitely not for everybody.

Martyrs: Greek for Witness.

Martyrs is written and directed by Pascal Laugier. It stars Morjana Alaoui and Mylene Jampanoi.

The New French Extremity Movement had its bar raised considerably by Pascal Laugier’s brutal but thought provoking horror. It’s a film as uncompromising as it is confrontational, a picture guaranteed to get a response for better or worse. Once viewed it simply will not be forgotten, the images, the twisty narrative thematics and the bloodshed that flows consistently throughout the story, Laugier and his two brilliant lead actresses assault the senses, magnificently so.

Story is unfurled as a three tiered structure, each one devastating, but it’s with the final third where the picture goes up through the stratosphere, stopping briefly at the café weird just to further tickle our craniums. Some of the violence here is tough to watch, and it’s no surprise to find it was met with the inevitable charges of misogyny. Yet the culmination of it all puts some perspective on the violence witnessed, leading to a strangely profound and moving climax.

The less you know about it going in for the first time the better. A strong stomach is required, as is an open mind, if you have these things then awaiting you is a visceral masterwork, one of the finest horror film’s to have ever come out of France. Yes, it’s that astonishing. 10/10

Disturbing
The film was introduced by the film’s writer director Pascal Laugier at this year’s Frightfest in London. The organiser’s referred to the film as “The film they most wanted” of the 28 shown at the festival. It was easy to see why. Of all the films I saw at this year’s Frightfest, Martyrs was not my favourite but without a doubt it is the one that plays on my mind the most. The film has been compared to both Hostel and Hellraiser but I think it has a lot more substance than both of those films. The central performances are top notch and Jessie Pham as the young Lucie is very convincing, completely holding your attention. So why only 7 out of 10? As well made as this film is, the subject matter is just so utterly disturbing I wanted this film to end a long time before it actually did. It is not a film that is to be enjoyed. It is not the escapism that you may be looking for. The first Act is a revenge story on a family who may or may not have been responsible for the kidnapping and torture of a young girl 15 years previously. It is the second Act though that is the more disturbing. The viewer wants it to end almost as much as the girl captured wants her ordeal to end. This is a must-see movie but certainly one that is going to divide audiences right down the middle.

The “Saw” and “Hostel” movies have nothing on “Martyrs”
“Martyr” – witness.

In an era of horror films in which graphic violence and depravity and the highest levels of human evil are dominated by the likes of the “Saw” movies and the “Hostel” movies, French director Pascal Laugier’s “Martyrs” has proved itself to be a two-fold juggernaut: on the one hand, it’s the most artistically depraved and frightening new piece of “torture porn” I’ve ever seen, and on the other hand “Martyrs” is not just a film – it’s an experience. This is where many of the new “Splat Pack” filmmakers – the new era of horror movies that are notorious for their extreme levels of violence and gore – such as James Wan, Eli Roth, Darren Lynn Bousman and Rob Zombie, have failed.

I must admit I am guilty of having a fondness for the “Saw” movies, even though the extreme levels of violence and gore in those films in my opinion is there for shock value, not to actually enhance the films or draw you in any deeper. American filmmaker James Cameron once said that with gore you create disgust, rather than fear, and with disgust there’s a completely different set of emotional investments. “Martyrs” is both disgusting and horrifying, but in ways that are unimaginably repulsive and beneficial to the film’s entertainment and artistic merits.

The film opens in 1971, when a young girl has managed to escape a dungeon where she had been beaten, starved, dehydrated, and tortured almost to the point of death. However, there is no sign of sexual abuse. The girl is traumatized, nearly catatonic, and is then taken into an orphanage, where she befriends another girl who is also a victim of child abuse. 15 years later, both girls are young women in their early 20s, and the victimized girl, Lucie (Mylene Jampanoi), walks into a house and slaughters the family living there. Lucie believes that these were the people responsible for torturing her 15 years earlier.

The other girl, Anna (Morjana Alaoui), soon arrives, and the two try to clean up the scene of the crime before the police arrive. Lucie is haunted by visions of another young victim that she had shared her experiences with 15 years later, and this victim is prone to committing unspeakable acts of violence and mutilation against her. However, after a while, it soon becomes clear that Anna and Lucie have just stumbled upon something far worse than either one of them could have imagined, as they find themselves doomed to endure the vary fate that so many others have gone through, and did not live to tell about.

I had heard recently that this film was banned in France and it’s not hard to see why. This is clearly not a film for children, nor is it wise to watch it on a full stomach because I guarantee you that some of the grotesque sights and sounds you see and hear here will not soon be forgotten. I have no idea what possessed Pascal Laugier to write and direct this feature, and I’m not sure I want to know. All I’m sure of, is that whatever possessed him, he created a film that is not to be messed with, and cannot in any way be compared to the juvenile gore-fests we’re becoming so accustomed to here in the United States. He has said that “Martyrs” is a film that he loathes himself for making, but at the same time is happy he made it due to the level of creative freedom given to him in making it.

I like gore as much as the next person – I already admitted to being guilty of liking the “Saw” movies – but “Martyrs” pushes the envelope in sheer extreme film-making. Most horror filmmakers are interested in making their movies as realistic as possible – certainly more-so than their predecessors this time 20 years ago – but Pascal Laugier has succeeded in creating a film experience that transcends much of what I’ve seen in recent years in the horror genre. He’s created a real horror movie experience that’s actually an experience, something that is seen, heard and felt, something lacking from most horror movies coming out of the United States now that are more interested in grossing-out the audience, rather than actually scaring them. “Martyrs,” is in essence, a horror film for mature horror movie fans, the ones not yet accustomed to “Saw” or “Hostel.”

Both Morjana Alaoui and Mylene Jampanoi turn in career-making performances. They were both extremely brave for going into this picture and becoming the willing “martyrs” of the torture porn era. I don’t want to know what these two talented young actresses went through in the making of this film, but their suffering shows in their daring acting performances. Whatever awards they receive for their work here, they will surely deserve them.

“Martyrs” is not a film I walked away from feeling good about; I’m actually quite positive that is not its intention. I felt drained after it, and somewhat unhappy, but nonetheless I felt satisfied with what I’d seen: a horror movie that went beyond what the genre has typically offered us in recent years. It is a truly terrifying experience. American author Stephen King once called Sam Raimi’s 1982 gore-fest “The Evil Dead,” “the ultimate experience in grueling horror.”

He’d never seen “Martyrs.”

10/10

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min)
Budget 6500000
Revenue 1100000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror
Director Pascal Laugier
Writer Pascal Laugier
Actors Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
Country France, Canada
Awards 7 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Aaton XTR Prod, Cooke S4 Lenses, Arriflex 16 SR3, Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires Éclair, Paris, France, Technicolor, Paris, France
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm (Kodak), 8 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Super 16, Super 8 (some scenes)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (blow-up) (Kodak)