Martyrs trailer!

Filthy, starving, dehydrated, the child’s body nonetheless bears no traces of sexual abuse – this was no pedophile abduction, but something far stranger.What happened in that icy room? And how did Lucie escape? Lucie is hospitalized – slowly she learns how to live again, an enfant sauvage gradually returning to the real world. In the hospital, she meets Anna, another little girl, and a victim of terrible abuse at the hands of her family. In no time, they are inseparable. Anna takes charge of Lucie, like a mother. As for her kidnappers, the police are at a dead end. Lucie’s ordeal remains a terrible mystery.

One night, as Anna sleeps, Lucie hears an awful, rasping breathing. A vision appears: a body, naked, skeletal, tortured. Barely human. The apparition seizes her…15 years later. A house, isolated in the middle of a forest. A family: Mum, Dad, two kids. A happy home. As they eat breakfast, there’s a knock at the door. The father opens it to find a young woman, hollow-eyed and wraithlike and mad. In her hands, a rifle. “Remember the little girl I once was?” She shoots him where he stands, enters the house, and locks the door…Minutes later, the family lie bloody. All dead. Lucie calls Anna, who tells her not to move, she’ll be right there. In shock, Lucie hangs up. And then she hears it. That terrible, terribly familiar breathing…

The flick was directed by Pascal Laugier and stars Mylène Jampanoï and Morjana Alaoui. No word yet on when it will hit the States (it’s in the Weinstein Company’s hands, so that’s par for the course).

What Mylène Jampanoï looks like when not covered in blood. (Sorry for the black box, had to… 🙁