The other night, a couple of friends and I went to see our first French film. No, we did not see a charming romantic comedy or a steamy love story or anything like that. We opted for the horror category, and the movie we saw was horrific indeed .
That's actually a severe understatement. The film, Martyrs, is the most effed up movie I've ever seen and hopefully will ever see.
Movies like Saw and Hostel seemed like Bambi compared to this. I will say that the acting was very good, but the scenes were so realistically brutal that I spent a large portion of the movie balled up in my seat with my hands in front of my face.
The movie follows a young girl, Lucie, who was physically (not sexually) abused and escapes from her abuser. They way in which she was abused proves very peculiar and throughout the movie, you try to figure out what exactly happened to her and why.
Her best friend gets captured by the same people and we see her go through everything that Lucie went through, in all of its gory and violent horror.
The ending of the movie is somewhat unexpected, but getting there was a little too drawn out.
If you are sick enough to see this movie, expect to see people getting shot, sliced, beat up and skinned. And expect it to be realistic looking.
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