Well, friends, it already happened to LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. And now it’s happening to MARTYRS. In case you couldn’t already infer, what I’m getting at is successful, well-reviewed and recent foreign horror flicks are getting fast-tracked through the remake mill. Just the other day, my man, Eric, informed us of RIGHT ONE’s redo. Today, it’s time to welcome the next MARTYRS.
FOX is apparently all over this bad boy, having picked up the rights to director Pascal Laugier’s chilling original. There’s no word yet on exactly when this will be going into production, but I believe it’s already knocking hard on the door. The friggin’ freaky plot of MARTYRS goes like this:
In the 1970’s a little girl named Lucie missing for over a year, is discovered wandering by the side of a country road. Near catatonic, she can say nothing about what has happened to her. The cops quickly find the place in which she’s been incarcerated in a disused slaughterhouse. Every indication is that she never once left the empty, freezing room in which she was imprisoned. Filthy, starving, dehydrated, the child’s body nonetheless bears no traces of sexual abuse – this was no pedophile abduction, but something far stranger.
I’m betting that the success of the already-getting-positive-reviews LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT as well as the new RIGHT ONE will hinge heavily on a new MARTYRS seeing the light outside the slaughterhouse. Since I didn’t catch the original yet, I can’t make a conclusive decision on whether or not I’d like a remake.