Having seen Pascal Laugier's "The Tall Man", which I absolutely loved, I had heard a lot of praise for his first film, "Martyrs", and finally saw it today (2017) on DVD. I can't believe all the reviewers who praise this film lavishly. It is over 90 minutes of torture porn, and while there is a revenge motive, there is little if any satisfaction to be gained by the victims or the viewers, and it is IMO, the viewers who are the ultimate victims, despite the clever twist at the end. One reviewer said that those who like "Hostel" will probably like this film too, and vice-versa. Well, sorry, for I really liked "Hostel", but this exercise in non-stop cruelty and torture was so over the top as to make it hard to care, and nobody could survive the tortures shown for ten minutes, let alone years. Huge disappointment.
Review of Martyrs
