Martyrs

Theatrical - Limited 2009-04-28

Cast Mylene Jampanoi Morjana Alaoui Mike Chute
Directed by Pascal Laugier
Written by Pascal Laugier

Genres: Foreign Film Horror

JoBlo's Rating

5/10

Synopsis

Now 25 years old, Lucie sets out to get revenge on the people who attacked and permanently scarred her when she was only 10 years old.

France. A night at the beginning of the 1970s. Lucie, a little girl missing for over... See more 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 – 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. What happened in that icy room? And how did Lucie escape?

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Martyrs (2015 Remake) (Movie Review)

Posted 10 years ago

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What’s the Most Overrated Horror Film of the Last 20 Years?

Posted 10 years ago

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Posted 11 years ago

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Posted 11 years ago

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First look at the Goetz Brothers’ Martyrs remake

Posted 11 years ago

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Posted 11 years ago

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13 Sins helmer Daniel Stamm explains what happened with that Martyrs remake

Posted 12 years ago

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Kill of the Day: Martyrs (2008)

Posted 12 years ago

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British censors cracking down on violence in movies after new research

Posted 13 years ago

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Last Exorcism director tackling remake of Martyrs next

Posted 15 years ago

I recently stumbled across the French horror film MARTYRS while browsing one of the internet’s many “Best Horror Films You Haven’t Seen” lists which also led me to movies like HATCHET, SPLINTER, HIGH TENSION and more, but MARTYRS made the...