Tuesday, October 19, 2010

31 Frights #19: MARTYRS [2008]

The French have been pumping out one brutal horror opus after another (HIGH TENSION, INSIDE, THEM, et al), but Pascal Laugier’s film gets bonus points for fully committing to a fascinating, even dangerous, central concept. (No fair telling what it is… just go see it.) It’s not airtight, and the violence is extreme, but it’s got much more on its agenda than mere bloodshed.

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