News of a French suspense shocker today that will delight those of you who enjoy truly disturbing films.
When a little girl, Lucie, is found half naked and lost by a country road after being missing for over a year, she is unable to tell police anything about what has happened to her. The police soon find out where she was incarcerated – but, as she bears no traces of sexual abuse, the reasons for her abduction and what has been done to her remain a mystery. Fifteen years later, Lucie has grown up into a beautiful but traumatised young woman, and her obsessive quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her leads her on a terrifying journey into into darkness and depravity.
No unexplained toilet needs in Martyrs
One reviewer said for the first time ever he had to look away from the screen as he couldn’t bear the suffering. I can’t say I did, but it made me wince. Martyrs is sick, no doubt about it, but the tale behind it is all too believable in a world where a rich few have so much power. Yet another winner from Europe.
This evil old bag is superb
Martyrs is available on Lovefilm instant. Watch it.
Steve Emmett is 5′ 10″ in his sock feet, 55 years of age, and may weigh more than 120Kg depending on the time of day. What little hair he has left is brown going grey, but in years gone by he had a rich unruly mop which was tamed according to fashion – poodle perm; New Romantic side parting; bleached both in whole and part. His challenge to the barber these days is rather more workaday.
Steve studied architecture at the AA in London where he once witnessed Dame Zaha Hadid fall through a canvas chair (admittedly she was just plain Ms Hadid then). He spent most of his working life selling Italian country homes to northern Europeans and Americans, and spent many years living in London and Italy. He will always be grateful to Lehman Bros for wrecking his comfortable existence and providing him with the opportunity to fulfil his writerly ambitions. Steve grew up on Hammer Horror films, Dennis Wheatley and M R James stories, so not surprising that his main aim is to put the frighteners up his readers. When not scaring people he likes to make them smile.
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3 thoughts on “Martyrs: It will leave your nerves raw”
It had such a dismal ending I had to watch 3 hours of the Three Stooges just to get back to my normal brooding, cynical self. But, I will say, it is not the US film companies that are making cutting edge horror films, it is France, Australia, Canada, etc… Not worrying about getting a PG-13 rating and not trying to be a blockbuster hit to please the big money-hungry studios, enables them to make some serious horror films!
Is it safe to come out yet?
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It had such a dismal ending I had to watch 3 hours of the Three Stooges just to get back to my normal brooding, cynical self. But, I will say, it is not the US film companies that are making cutting edge horror films, it is France, Australia, Canada, etc… Not worrying about getting a PG-13 rating and not trying to be a blockbuster hit to please the big money-hungry studios, enables them to make some serious horror films!