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.
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.
Martyrs is available on Lovefilm instant. Watch it.
Is it safe to come out yet?
Nope
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!