Martyrs

Name: Martyrs
Director: Kevin Goetz
Released: 2015

Synopsis

A woman and her childhood friend seek out revenge on those who victimized and abused them.

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Slant Magazine
It's hardly a desecration of Pascal Laugier's 2008 French horror film of the same name, but that assumes the original is a canonical text.
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The A.V. Club
Unfortunately, in goosing the momentum, the creators of the film have lost the soul of what was essential to this horrific tale
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The Hollywood Reporter
Deviating from the original in some key respects, this version of Martyrs doesn't make much of a case for its inspiration, but it may attract those hardcore horror fans averse to reading subtitles.
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Village Voice
The co-directing brothers Goetz prove adept at building escape-the-bad-guy action sequences, but they continually run up against the story's Marquis-de-Sade underpinnings.
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The Playlist
Martyrs is only eighty minutes long, sans credits, yet still it manages to cram four bad horror films into its meager runtime.
25
New York Post
A self-serving remark on the part of the filmmakers, who place only the tiniest fig leaf of a story on a panoramic canvas of the gory, gross and repellent.
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RogerEbert.com
Both the French and U.S. iterations of Martyrs are transparently voyeuristic cheaply ginned-up Guignol peep shows with intellectual pretensions.
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Los Angeles Times
The movie feels like a thin excuse to show image after image of women being abused. This Martyrs has the bones of its predecessor, but it's been bled dry.