Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

writetostuart When I first heard of this movie , I was like 'this sounds interesting let me check it out'. After watching it , I can tell you that I basically just saw a extremely violent movie that had a strong message behind it . But, the movie doesn't do anything creative with it and once you understand why it's all happening , you just become no longer invested in it because you are already sick to your stomach and there isn't any characters that are interesting . Every character in this movie is just an inanimate object for more gore to be shown and the performances aren't good either and they become annoying and the whole movie feels annoying , hollow, dull, vile, and pretentious . The violence is so much that I begin to feel like vomiting at certain points and the beating scene of Anna was too much for me . The end was one of those ending that doesn't give you any explanation of why anything is happening and let the audience guess , which is a common in these artsy-fartsy movies. There are so many plot holes in this movie : 1, when she kills the entire family and calls her friend to help and after doing that , they don't even leave the house , they just stay there 2, When Anna finds the woman locked in the basement , instead of taking her to the hospital or calling 9-11 to help her , she puts her in the bath-tub which I felt was just an excuse for more gore to be shown. 3, why didn't the police arrive when Lucy killed the family . The in the end , Martyrs is just another generic torture porn movie with virtually no plot and a slight twist that 's they re searching for the afterlife stuff.

ilovecessnas175 When I watched this film for the first time a couple years ago, I had flashbacks. This is the most disturbing movie I have ever seen in my life. I recently found out that a supposed cousin of mine had a role in it and was also the stuntman. This is why the remake (2015) went straight to DVD because it was too disturbing to be in the theatres.

Nebraska097-883-89254 Before I say anything about story, first you should know, this is NOT a true horror movie, you can't call this a revenge movie too unlike what people are commonly telling about this film! And about the story: first you are watching a painful past of a young girl named Lucie that taken by a mysterious cult group and tortured, she escaped and is growing up in somewhere like orphanage and doctors can't cure her mental sickness but the girl keep growing and being alive for next 15 years!!! In continue you will see how hard and dangerous is her sickness, that make her easily murdered a whole family with their children and keep hurting herself but what the ...? How was she living these years?! As she has a very close friend (however you will understand its more than a friendship and more like a lesbian relationship) named Anna that take care of her but she must spend every minute of her life with her to stay her alive. These events happened in less than half of movie and those are the best parts of it! the ideas in movie are over! And remaining minutes of film are totally waste of time!Because Lucie had her revenge and killed herself and with that, the small and ONLY scary part of movie ("Lucie's paranoid vision of a creature") is over! Now what we have are just Anna and those insane cult members, they found Anna and start doing what they done to others, to her and I blame myself why I didn't use fast forward to prevent myself from seeing those sick behaviors that director put details on this part. you will watch painful scenes of tortures that have nothing to do with horror! Seeing a big bald guy mercilessly hit a small and weaken girl in every weak is more like a torture p*rn than horror or slasher movie. And at last skinned her alive! To make her see what they always looking for! She said something in ear of their boss And people being curious about what Anna saw on that moments! THB I don't give any f*ck what Anna saw! I don't know how kind of feel should I have! Why should it being important when its a result of sadistic methods!? And the boss commit a suicide before telling her followers what she heard from Anna and movie ended! The question is what is this movie about? Revenge?! Being a lover of a stupid person you will win a stupid price?! Or about to advertise that cult?! Even we forgot Lucie's events, because of misleading of story! I can not find the point because the movie is not entertaining anyway. And I guess people who enjoys this movie and its scenes are typical fans of torture p*rns and the goal is; people in p*rn doesn't graphically get hurt but in this movie they do! If you are a person who the end and meaning of the movie is important for you, just don't watch this!

drpakmanrains Having seen Pascal Laugier's "The Tall Man", which I absolutely loved, I had heard a lot of praise for his first film, "Martyrs", and finally saw it today (2017) on DVD. I can't believe all the reviewers who praise this film lavishly. It is over 90 minutes of torture porn, and while there is a revenge motive, there is little if any satisfaction to be gained by the victims or the viewers, and it is IMO, the viewers who are the ultimate victims, despite the clever twist at the end. One reviewer said that those who like "Hostel" will probably like this film too, and vice-versa. Well, sorry, for I really liked "Hostel", but this exercise in non-stop cruelty and torture was so over the top as to make it hard to care, and nobody could survive the tortures shown for ten minutes, let alone years. Huge disappointment.