Martyrs (2oo8)
RELEASE NOTES
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Country: France
Source: DVD
Size: 1CD | 727.36 MB
Genre: Drama | Horror
Video: 851 kbps | 640×352 (1.81:1) | 25 fps
Audio: French | 165 kbps VBR MP3
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 (1369 votes)
Directed By: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
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SYNOPSIS
France. A night at the beginning of the 1970s. Lucie, a little girl missing for over a year, is discovered wandering by the side of a country road. Near catatonic, she can say nothing about what has happened to her. The cops quickly find the place in which she's been incarcerated - a disused slaughterhouse. Every indication is that she never once left the empty, freezing room in which she was imprisoned. Filthy, starving, dehydrated, the child's body nonetheless bears no traces of sexual abuse - this was no pedophile abduction, but something far more horrifying if such a thing is possible. What happened in that icy room? And how did Lucie escape?
MOVIE REVIEW
It begins with a whisper - then there's some buzz - then there's a friend who knows someone who knows someone else who has seen it. Word has it that the movie is awesome, and that is when it transforms into something more than just another horror flick, that it when it becomes a legend
Terrifyingly harrowing, sickening, hopelessly bleak, and very cruel, this French bad boy is an evil film that, Promises to utterly destroy the foundations of non-believer's pre-assumptions, biases and expectations.
In that case, one should proceed with great caution in regards to viewing it. Pascal Laugier, who was apparently depressed and suicidal while directing this, has achieved what could be the ultimate point of horror cinema, or any material that deals with horror for that matter.
Utterly dark without any single trace of snide mockery or humor, let alone a single ray of light; unflinchingly looking at human depravity, misery and cruelty by virtue of effectively capturing what could be every single pain known to mankind without any remorse and apology, and abandoning any concept of hope and redemption; Indeed ugly pessimism at its finest: and doing all of that on philosophical and humanistic terms: what does it mean to be human? What does it mean to truly suffer? How does one can transcend material life? How does death look like? Is there a way to find truth?
With the abundance of gore along the veins of "Clive Barker's Hellraiser" (which is now understandably a film that Laugier is currently remaking) and gut-wrenching violence that is plain razor-sharp and thoroughly ugly, but that of which leaves a surprising emotional resonance and sadness on its sufferers, unlike the cold detachment from the characters in American torture porn films like the "Saw" and "Hostel" series, "Martyrs" works far differently from its aforementioned counterparts: it actually has something to say andit is emotional.
Nonetheless, witnessing it is a very satanic experience, though that is the point: horror that is highly effective transgresses beyond showing superficial pain, flimsy terror & nonsensical idealism. In "Martyrs", every single drop of blood is significant down to its transcendental, even ethereal, moving conclusion.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/210566226/Martyrs.2008.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/210566181/Martyrs.2008.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/210566249/Martyrs.2008.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/210566035/Martyrs.2008.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT.part4.rar
RELEASE NOTES
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Country: France
Source: DVD
Size: 1CD | 727.36 MB
Genre: Drama | Horror
Video: 851 kbps | 640×352 (1.81:1) | 25 fps
Audio: French | 165 kbps VBR MP3
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 (1369 votes)
Directed By: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
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SYNOPSIS
France. A night at the beginning of the 1970s. Lucie, a little girl missing for over a year, is discovered wandering by the side of a country road. Near catatonic, she can say nothing about what has happened to her. The cops quickly find the place in which she's been incarcerated - a disused slaughterhouse. Every indication is that she never once left the empty, freezing room in which she was imprisoned. Filthy, starving, dehydrated, the child's body nonetheless bears no traces of sexual abuse - this was no pedophile abduction, but something far more horrifying if such a thing is possible. What happened in that icy room? And how did Lucie escape?
MOVIE REVIEW
It begins with a whisper - then there's some buzz - then there's a friend who knows someone who knows someone else who has seen it. Word has it that the movie is awesome, and that is when it transforms into something more than just another horror flick, that it when it becomes a legend
Terrifyingly harrowing, sickening, hopelessly bleak, and very cruel, this French bad boy is an evil film that, Promises to utterly destroy the foundations of non-believer's pre-assumptions, biases and expectations.
In that case, one should proceed with great caution in regards to viewing it. Pascal Laugier, who was apparently depressed and suicidal while directing this, has achieved what could be the ultimate point of horror cinema, or any material that deals with horror for that matter.
Utterly dark without any single trace of snide mockery or humor, let alone a single ray of light; unflinchingly looking at human depravity, misery and cruelty by virtue of effectively capturing what could be every single pain known to mankind without any remorse and apology, and abandoning any concept of hope and redemption; Indeed ugly pessimism at its finest: and doing all of that on philosophical and humanistic terms: what does it mean to be human? What does it mean to truly suffer? How does one can transcend material life? How does death look like? Is there a way to find truth?
With the abundance of gore along the veins of "Clive Barker's Hellraiser" (which is now understandably a film that Laugier is currently remaking) and gut-wrenching violence that is plain razor-sharp and thoroughly ugly, but that of which leaves a surprising emotional resonance and sadness on its sufferers, unlike the cold detachment from the characters in American torture porn films like the "Saw" and "Hostel" series, "Martyrs" works far differently from its aforementioned counterparts: it actually has something to say andit is emotional.
Nonetheless, witnessing it is a very satanic experience, though that is the point: horror that is highly effective transgresses beyond showing superficial pain, flimsy terror & nonsensical idealism. In "Martyrs", every single drop of blood is significant down to its transcendental, even ethereal, moving conclusion.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/210566226/Martyrs.2008.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/210566181/Martyrs.2008.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/210566249/Martyrs.2008.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/210566035/Martyrs.2008.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT.part4.rar
