Martyrs

‘Martyrs’ Trailer: Brutal French Horror Gets a Friendly Remake
‘Martyrs’ Trailer: Brutal French Horror Gets a Friendly Remake
‘Martyrs’ Trailer: Brutal French Horror Gets a Friendly Remake
Pascal Laugier’s brutal 2008 film Martyrs arrived at a time when the French were delivering some of the most interesting and visceral horror, like Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s Inside and Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day. Like those films, Martyrs was confrontational and existentially-driven, not content with delivering tedious acts of outrageous violence, or what American audiences had dubbed “torture porn.” Unfortunately, the remake of Martyrs kind of looks like it’s missing the point.