this whole movie is a reminder of: if you see some weird shit, call the police "what if they arrest me?" bro you'd be safer at jail than in the hands of these lunatics
I would just bolt the heck out of there and dont look back or stop until I'm in like a store, wait to see if I'm still chased then keep going but find a different route going away from the area I was at.
The woman was blindfolded, because she was seeing cockroaches crawling over her. So the blindfold was supposed to calm her down, but after Anna took it off, the woman started hallucinating again and hurting herself.
@@whiskeythunder2348 No that's just untrue, a sharp enough blade could easily cut your back to shit and honestly without much force or effort from the user
I love that Mademoiselle decided to wait until she had everyone travel all that way to gather at her place before offing herself. Truly living for the drama of it all.
@@marc-etiennemercier6584 I mean I wouldn’t trust that at all, it coulda been sumthin so terrifying and unexplainable that she just didn’t wanna live with such knowledge and killed herself. I wouldn’t hear a gunshot and think “yeh iss prolly safe to die now bois” 😂
i watched it with my mom and she said "jeez, they skinned her that sucks." and "yikes, that probably hurt" and "wow thst looks so real." so yea i think my mom is insane. Edit: me and the mother recently watched the remake of martyrs, her summary was: “yeah that sucked, put on the original, rather watch that ten time then this trash.” I love my mom ❤️
I think she is amazing, she was capabled of doing the thing that most ppl can not do or refuse to. Attach reality and fiction. Even though there r a lot of things in real life that even more messed up than movies/series, but the moment you sit through the screen, having the ability to know that: "it is not real, at this moment, you can't hurt me". At some level, it is once hell of a skill. Better keeping it medium tho, or not you will not be able to understand metaphor or profound stuffs.
Right "OMG there's dead bodies!!!!! Im gonna go to sleep on a bed first." no! Nein! Bushi! N'yet! You phone 911 / 999 and get da fuck outta there. Your lesbian lover is a serial killer. Run, bitch. RUUUUUUN!
WHY?! WHY THE FUCKING HELL??!!! Lucie did nothing wrong!!! Lucie was an innocent child, who was driven to insanity by torture! She rightly killed her tormentors and never would have killed the children without her childhood experiences! It's not her fault! She only gave these pigs something even mildly und merciful compared, to what they really deserved! They shed the first blood, they blackened the heart of an innocent, little, defenseless girl and systematically drove her into madness and to her death! The Death of the children was senseless and unfortunate, but she was desperate and tormented by her monstrous hallucination!
You didn't mention that Anna doesn't know whether or not Lucie has just murdered an entire innocent family(until she finds the victim) but goes along with it anyway.Also the family laughing about the dead mouse over breakfast and not being repulsed like any normal family,indicates to me the children knew exactly what went on in the house.
@@ИванИвановИванович-т1ф true true, but it's literally a cult. I'm sure they've had their son go down there and do things to that woman that Anna found...
I don't the children knew anything. Their parents would have tried indoctrinating them once they grew up but they had no reason to tell them they torture people for a cult when they're kids.
@@tiaaaron3278 - I've always thought that the kids didn't know, for the simple reason that it would be impossible to trust kids with such an enormous secret. If one of them spill the beans for whatever reason, the entire cult is in grave danger. So my guess has always been that all the cult's houses that welcomes martyrs-in-training would have to keep it a secret, the alternative just raises way too many questions. I've also watched the american 2016 remake, it's not as good as the OG but one of Elvis' complains is adressed, as Lucy tries was harder to escape from the death squad sent to the home to TCB. There's a little sub-plot where she runs away and hides from them for a while, she even has to hide beneath corpes and shit. The violence/gore is toned down a lot though, and the ending is very different. Anna is actually produced in front of the sect in the remake. And in this one, there is no ambiguity about the message, it's definitely some kind of "lnwoledge humans weren't supposed to possess" that causes one of the high priests who over-hears it to immediately panic, take a gun from someone else and blow his own head off. The original is still way better, especially acting wise, but the remake isn't 100% trash like most american remakes, so I take it as an absolute win.
@@randallflagg3700 I don't know about the remake but in this one, the cult clearly consisted of deluded loons and Anna was hypothermic and tortured and saw some hallucinations which didn't mean anything. The leader killed herself because she understood little and wanted to see it for herself.
I have been intending to watch this film for the last 5-10 years. The premise always intrigued me. But, you know, I’ve decided I’m going to pass. Twenty years ago I would have been all over something like this. But as I’ve hit middle age and have experienced loss and sorrow on a larger scale the last thing I have any interest in is signing up for an endurance test in cruelty and nihilism. This review covered everything I was curious about. I don’t need to watch it. I’m good.
I understand. I used to be all about "ART" and not entertainment. But coming off a pandemic and everything else, we need things that distract us just as much as pushes the questions that remain unanswered. I watched this film, and I have a very extensive history of stomaching all kinds of horror. But this isn't even scary - it's just bleak.
@@Rico401Prov I think Martyrs was WAAAAY more gruesome than Hostel. Hostel also has some scenes but a big difference is that in Martyrs it almost never stops, it's contantly throwing horror after horror at you without any break and it just gets worse and worse. I used to love watching these crazy movies when I was in my early 20s but now that I'm nearing 30 for some reason I've become much more sensitive to this stuff, I don't understand why. I just don't enjoy it anymore and every time I watch these super violent movies I ask myself "Why REALLY are you watching this?". There's nothing wrong with morbid curiosity but I've lost it. I still love horror films but these type of films are too much for me now.
@@1337Figaro yeah I agree to some extent. Hostel 1 is bad but not for the majority of the film. I say aspects of all 3 hostel movies can equate to Martyrs. I’m 32 and have seen actual murder videos so none of what I see in movies can affect me like those have but overall it’s a sad world we live in. Stay sane, bro
@@TwoBs I don't remember where I read it. But the director supposedly said that he made Martyrs as a response to the "torture p0rn" craze and wanted something that was about emotional and physical suffering rather than torture.
I like horror movies. Ones which try to be scary with scares. Not stabby stabby slashy slashy for the sake of being stabby stabby slashy slashy. There's a difference. I guess.
I read an interpretation that Anna lied to Mademoiselle about what she saw, effectively destroying the cult and getting her final victory or revenge. I always thought that was a cool take on the ending
Its as close to the correct one, she didn't lie to her, she just told her she wasn't going to tell her. Imagine putting people through all that suffering and finally finding someone who "sees" and that someone tells you to fuck off and let them enjoy what they earned with their pain.
@@ombra711 That would be pretty explaining, since Madammoiselle killed herself due to inflicting so much pain to people and yet at the end, earning nothing from it
I'm really bad with gorefests, and just having Elvis explain it makes me wanna vomit. I really love Xavier Dolan (the actor who played the son), and knew this is a film he was in, but now that I know what happens, I just, yeah, I'm out.
I've seen the the 2015 which... still made me want to puke and still being too much to handle but after seeing clips of the 2008 version, my eyes are still tainted to this day.
My personal take on why Anna survived and achieved martyrdom when nobody else did is that she understood suffering like none of the other torture victims did. She basically raised Lucie, while growing up herself. I can't fathom the stress that Anna went through, and the strength she built up. The first thing she does when she finds the bound woman is to bath her, and try to take care of her. She's incredibly strong. Also, my interpretation of the ending is that...finding out the secret to life and our meaning on Earth stripped Mademoiselle of her desire to keep living. She finds out the truth, and suddenly everything has lost it's meaning for her. She strips away her headwrap. She pulls off her eyelashes. She wipes off her makeup. It's all meaningless to her now. So her final words to "keep doubting", means "keep living" basically. As soon as you find out the truth, your will to live disappears.
So basically what she found out is that the afterlife is so amazing and better than the living that she had to kill herself correct? And the “keep living” part was basically telling the other cult members to keep living and continuing to kidnap and torture women . Which is basically what’s gonna happen.
@@eden20111 That's not fully my interpretation, no. Maybe she told her that the afterlife is nothing. Maybe humanity was created as an experiment. Like rats in a maze. Maybe there's nothing to look forward to, nothing to hope for. That could also remove someone's will to live. I think if if the afterlife was amazing, then Mademoiselle would have simply told the others and they would have committed mass suicide or something. I think what she really told her is actually very bleak.
exactly. If you think about it nothing else makes sense other than this. There is absolutely no point in "after death". Anna got tortured and abused ffs, there is no excuse for it. The movie makes you think that this torture was perhaps reasonable when its absolutely not lol. All those people who torture are just psychopaths who love torturing, as simple as that. @@GrimGearheart
The genre of this type of film is called New French Extremity, they are artistic, bold films that often explore the nature and impact of violence. The violence is not meant to be passively spectated like it normally is in horror films, but to confront the viewer with the reality and human consequences of the violence and brutality. The director called the film an "anti-hostel."
Ah there's a name for it. Makes sense. Independent of anyone else describing this genre, I kind of associated this French movie with another one... the name I forget... it takes place in a rave or something, everyone is drugged, and brutal violence follows. I concocted an opinion that this must be some sort of French nihilistic art film movement
the skinning scene is especially disturbing because up until that point, you've kinda held on to the hope that anna might escape. then she gets skinned and that hope just dies. there's no going back to any kind of normal or worthy life from that. it's so heartbreaking and gruesome.
It’s what makes martyrs so disturbing and depressing how You just witness this helpless woman subject to cruelty and relentless torture and their isn’t a single chance she’s actually gonna get out alive
Lol she had plenty of opportunities to not make the absolute dumbest choices she could make. At the point she got caught, most people probably lost interest in the character anyways lol Instead of attemtping to phone the cops and explaining that her tortured friend went shotgun ham on her childhood torturers, that there's seemingly all kinds of fcuked up stuff happening with these weird and connected occult-like folks, and getting the hell out of dodge... she actually falls asleep in that creepy house, with all the dead bodies and phones her estranged mum the next day 😂 One could argue she was secretly hoping to lose her skin lol There's simply no way back from characters not acting if not predictably, at least logically.
It doesn’t make sense to me that she could withhold a full body skinning to that extent and still be living!! The body can only take so much, to me it would have been more realistic if it was most of her skin but not all of it! How is her face in tact with no bruising?! A punch to the nose causes bruising around the eyes and face! Let alone severe trauma to the whole surrounding areas! Also, they completely removed all of her skin, fatty tissue and external body like breast, ears, outer vaginal skin and labia, skull (meningeal) etc … and she’s still conscious. I feel like she would have had so much pain it would lead to cardiac arrest, stroke or for whatever reason, sudden death! I never see anyone comment on this! But the last scene with a full body flayed but still alive, just makes no sense to me and I never see anyone comment on it 😭 that’s my only criticism, biologically it’s unrealistic. But then again, I’m aware that being able to sustain this type of severe torture is a rarity! (Which I guess is the point of the movie) But it’s still impressive and simultaneously unbelievable that a person can withstand this torture and stay conscious enough to even physically talk let alone comprehend their external environment. Even still, it’s my one downfall of this movie! It’s brilliant but I still feel unsatisfied
The "worst" part of the movie is the anticipation/apprehension of what's to come when she is captured. The cold/clinical interview and process. The realization that she is going to go through what the others went through. That there was no escape. She was going to experience whatever it is that caused the other girls to lose their minds.
@@supungamage9156 The nicest person in the movie, but not totally good (but still good overall). Because upon seeing what her friend did to a family (before she knew what they actually did this is just me assuming ofc because I didn't watch the movie and definitely won't because torture porn isn't quite my taste) including the kids she literally tried to cover up the massacre. Though she did try to save the one person after realizing she was still alive. So give and take I suppose. Like for all she knew Lucie could've just massacred a family for no reason especially since she would've appeared insane. Though I don't think even the worst human being should suffer the fate she suffered. Like yikes.
@@cannedsquasher5923 She withheld the secrets for Lucie because of what happened to her, I think her girlfriend told her what would happen to these people, since Lucie only trusted Anna. The realization of what exactly that was set in once she saw the bodies. Not to mention, I think Lucie was a good person, since she was tortured, and suffering from survivor’s guilt with no real mental health help, and killed off some horrible people. The children? Don’t know it they were apart of it, but they definitely would have noticed all of this shit. It’s better they were to die, than to possibly tortured by the organization. Especially the daughter. Does this mean Lucie is obviously a perfect person? No. It just means her character had more layers, and was acting on trauma, and protecting others to make up for something that wasn’t her fault as a child. Anna and Lucie were the only “good” people in this movie, but there are nuances to their faults, and bad sides. There is no true “good” character.
Also one thing i hated was how when the victim she found was going crazy she couldnt stop her... like that makes fucking no sense because anna is a healthy woman while the other woman was malnourished and should have no power. How could she not stop her? that was a very cheap way to dramatise it man.
@@farikoliquidz4606 she could have definitely handled the situation better, atleast take the knife out of her hand. Its just a minor nitpick from me. Also nice pfp lol
pissed me off so bad she literally should've left at so many points she should've convinced lucie to turn herself in and get help instead of burying the bodies she should've left when she found the half dead lady instead of subjecting her to even more pain trying to bathe her like jesus ur seeing pictures of actual people who were tortures ur in an eerily empty underground bunker in the middle of the woods here no one can find u and u decide to fucking go down into it like she had 0 survival instincts
@@quintfl Well yeah I always look up what kind of movie it is before watching. Like I get your comment was a joke but still it's odd, most of your friends won't like it as this type of movie isn't popular but the ones that like this genre will obviously like it as it's one of the better movies in it's field.
I really wanted to like this comment but you are at 217 and as weird as it sounds, that is one of my fave string of numbers. Anyway, your comment literally made me lol
@@rienkert3852 honestly come and see is the most haunting movie I have ever seen. It's both strangly beautiful ( the shots not the content) and beyond horrible. I highly recommend it, but only if you're open to feeling indescribable pain while watching it, and then being depressed for weeks later
@@maialapointe1452 Oh absolutely! The cinematography is outstanding, it blends perfectly with the music and overall sound design. In my opinion the best anti-war film ever made.
Also this is so horrible but I never get to use this unfun fact so here we go. Un-Fun Fact: You can survive being skinned alive, you will die soon after (approximately 4 to 5 hours) but not because of blood loss but hypothermia, your skin is important for regulating body temperature and your body will drop to the external temperature without it, hypothermia can cause hallucination, insanity and loss of senses much like the Maryer state. It's quite possible she was freezing to death and losing her mind not seeing into the after life.
considering how brainwashed and delusional such cults are, I can bet that for them ''they transcended and saw afterlife'' would be more believable than hypothermia. Or I can see them trying to believe that hypothermia is just a medical definition of ''transcending''
@@Monicalia NO known cults like the one from this movie exist. Well they do, but they usually convinced innocent people to commit suicide or tricked them like Jonestown.
@@worm9862 ''no known'' there are so many cults you literally have no idea if a cult like that exist. I wouldn't be surprised if they did, given how weird and brutal people can be. second, I was clearly and specifically talking about the cult from the movie. third, I just said that considering how delusional cults can be, they'd find a way to excuse any sick torture they put people through. third, there were disgusting murders-rituals committed by cults.
@rofl datch it would be possible if she was kept wrapped in wet bandages at 98.2°F but then her skin couldn't repair or worse it would fuse with the bandages and couldn't be cut off without flaying her again. Many people who get 4th and 5th degree burns die from either this or infection in wounds that are burned shut, the burned flesh must be removed before sepsis sets into the narcotic flesh and too much can set in hypothermia from radical body temp deregulation. Your skin keeps in 90% of your internal heat and that heat is essential for regulating the metabolic rate when it slows your heart does and inturn your brain dies from lack of oxygenation blood too high the heart rate goes up with but can't adjust the oxygen levels and similar issues occur. It's possible but extremely unlikely, besides no should be flayed alive and if they are, the psycho doing it doesn't expect them to last long. Best guess is probably a few days at most, when the bandages start fusion with new skin sepsis will set in and waste will accelerate this, if she had round the clock aid from medical professionals in a full medical hospital she could possibly survive but it would a miracle and they would need to be there in about 10 minutes after the end of the film assuming it took 2 hours to call the Cultist and and 30 minutes to abandon the house and call the authorities to let them know there are dozens of victims in the basement with a girl skinned alive in an antibiotic bath hallucinating.
I've heard about this movie so many times but it was always presented as a revenge flick whereby the both girls were tortured and they got revenge on their torturers. Having watched this, I'm glad that I never gave into curiosity because Lucie dying and Anna basically taking her place would've pissed me off to no end.
The description of the movie was a little manipulative. I too thought Lucy was going to be chasing her torturers, and I was one hour into the movie waiting for the next people in the list. I got disappointed, but the scenes were so good they hurt.
@TOBASCO GLADIO MATTEO Even so it isn't like people still aren't being tortured, I mean there's cartel videos of people's faces being flayed off and stuff so you can't exactly say it's a thing of the past.
Hearing about this movie kinda made me wanna watch this At the same time i don't generally even like horror, so i know for sure i wouldn't like it at all
20:10 I believe it’s because she failed and started hallucinating and became destructive so they had to obstruct her sight to prevent her from hallucinating
I feel like my nervous system just got damaged from hearing short parts of this movie. Thank you so much for not showing too much of this. This is an amazing movie that I never want to see ever. Pretty sure I would throw up the whole entire time. Yep. not my cup of tea...
I’m with you. I watched a video once that included a blurred photo of someone who had gotten caught in the Chernobyl blast. The guy survived, but was in brutal condition and the government kept him alive to run tests on him. The blurred photo wasn’t blurred enough as you could make out the figure and the color - which indicated severe burns or worse. I have had that picture stuck in my mind ever since.
One is very gory and the other one psichologically fucked. I have watched A Serbian Film just once because i dont think is good to watch it more than one time, its a critique(by the movie, description apparently), but i think is too much to even be a critique.
@@Cjiscj777 A Serbian Film is absolutely nauseating. Necrophilia mixed with child molestation (including the rape of a literal newborn), rape, suicide, murder, incest, and a "director" orchestrating everything. It's just sick and depraved, with no purpose.
My biggest regret is watching that movie. Never been so disgusted by a movie before and I get it was meant to show the life of living in Serbia but it went way too far
@@blingblingjhope8502 That's just the excuse the mentally disturbed director used to justify that repugnant film. Whatever message he was trying to convey, he didn't need to use the rape of newborn children, murder, incestuous rape, oral rape, and more rape. Only a sick individual could come up with something like that, let alone direct it and call it art.
@@bugbitez any time you see "based on a true story" they are almost certainly playing extremely fast and loose with the definitions involved. if it's something that actually happened, they wouldn't have to use creative language, they would just say so directly.
I'm actually half tempted to see it now that I've realized my imagination was WAY fucking worse than the movie(on the detail of the blind folded woman's headpiece being ripped off) The glimpses i saw made her look more typical leather face fucked up once it got ripped off. I expected there to be a huge piece of her entire skull missing, leaving entire eyes(pale and white, maybe red and irritated from blindness for however long) exposed, no nose at all. Basically imagine if someone took an inch DEEP of all the bone and skull(which would pull the nose clean off, no lips, etc.) that was covered in metal, and imagine that being carved off and it was what I imagined it being. Idk, point is, one detail made me chuckle when I thought I can at least rest easy thinking THAT stomach churning detail wasn't thought up lol
Nah I was shit faced and when I get drunk whenever I watch movies I cannot get invested in them because all I imagine is how the filming process went which for this movie I found hilarious cuz the thought of a girl slitting her throat and dying and then a director saying 'again' was fucking comedy gold.
I rewatched it 2 days later while sober and couldn't get halfway through before turning it off and seriously considering booking a therapist so I think I'm not a total psycho.
If you’re not comfortable watching a girl get the shit beat out of her for almost 30 minutes I wouldn’t watch it. It is a great movie though, just make sure you watch the French unrated version.
oh man, that iceberg was a ride of (mostly negative) emotions, I got so fucking depressed, but y'know, that's the world we live in, can't do shit about fuck :/
I watched this in one of those horror nights at movie theaters and this was my absolute favourite. It's beautiful and beautifully decided in three acts, and yes it's gorey but it's am incredible film. That being said I don't plan to ever EVER watch it again
What makes it so incredible? From just this video I was reminded of Euphoria quite a bit (exchange physical torture for sexual and mental torture) and I can definitely say that was a great game. After a while I even started skipping through the sex scenes, just so I could advance the plot. I'm not one for the TP genre, so I'll never watch the hardcore shit (Martyrs/Serbian), but I wonder if the story's really enough to almost make up for it.
@@dowfreak7 In my opinion, it is. Go watch Max Derret's video on it. Of course, the plot can be explained without the torture, but it doesn't hold as much weight. I highly recommend his video on it.
The reason they covered the woman's face was because she had a mental break and she kept seeing hallucinations of insects crawling all over her body and because her mind broke she wasn't a good candidate for martyrdom this was explained in the movie, you probably missed it as the scenes in the movie are so intense
@Cenestpasmapersonnalité cuz i get the feeling they had clients with other interests... so they could have sold her to wealthy people who liked to torture..
From another video by commenter SquishedFaeries: "Anna didn't accept her fate until after Lucie came to her. That is when she finally let go. Love was the key. Anna's love for Lucie. Her pure devotion and loyalty. That is why some Martyrs were religious in nature as it was their love for God that sustained them through their torment, while other Martyrs - those without religious convictions - were able still able to achieve spiritual transcendence due to their love for another person. That was the secret. That is what the society didn't understand, because they were incapable of experiencing pure, selfless love. The truly tragic part is that the people responsible for all of this are still ignorant to that one, crucial part. So they will continue to fail, time and time again."
Except the ones paying the price for their failure will be innocent women & children. So as "profound" as this comment is, or tried to be, it fails when the bad guys essentially didn't lose shit and will proceed with what they were doing.
The women that weren't "martyred" had dissociated. This extreme violence and torture can either make one into a martyr or they dissociate (other than just dying). The woman with the metal mask was kept that way (why she was even kept alive makes no sense to me) because she had severe hallucinations and if I remember correctly, she saw bugs crawling in her skin. So when Anna took the mask off, the mask lady was "able" to see her hallucinations in real life. Thus, cutting her arm off to let the bugs escape. Yup.
@@illitaret8780 Just watch it. The photos they show during that scene are real photos of people that have been killed. Obviously not by the filmmakers.
I hate that the entire basis for the torturing is to find out what happens after death. Like what difference is it going to make? You can't change it, you can't do anything about it, and you're going to experience it either way.
It kind of makes sense, like if you know there is no hell then you can do shitty things if believing in hell is the only thing that keep you from doing it
There's something so depressing about how Anna's suffering was basically in vain since mademoiselle committed suicide before telling others what Anna saw
@@DaMensch86 I think it's a metaphor for sacrifice, like she needed to sacrifice something as Anna did so she could get redemption, and what she sacrificed was the information itself.
"Beware of unearned wisdom" - Carl Jung To me, the reason MM kills herself is that she hasn't suffered to achieve the eternal wisdom, ascension, afterlife, nirvana w/e you want to call it, that Ana shows her a glimpse of. She believes that all she needs is to have the knowledge handed to her by people she makes suffer, but isn't willing to earn it through suffering herself. She's a cheat and an evil one at that. Because of this, the wisdom is useless to her and she knows it, so she kills herself, as her quest is fruitless. She will never be a martyr, as she simply isn't willing to go through the struggle to be one. Ana earned her wisdom through suffering, even if it was against her will. It's a beautiful ending, in my opinion
@@conc3d189 but that would assume that everyone has to suffer to "earn" the afterlife through suffering? Many ppl do not suffer like anna, in fact many billions of ppl have not suffered anything even close to what she went through. She not only suffered the physical torment, but also the over bearing emotional torment of her youth and violent lost love of her mates suicide. Thoughts?
I thought the worst part is the whole endless torture concept. when she was a child she saw a woman tortured to shit and when she is of age we find that same woman still alive living the worst kind of life. Its so horrific that the moment she is free she immidiatly tries to kill herself. just to escape life. That kinda fucked me up.
I think the most cruel thing about this movie is when you realsise that Mademoiselle's death and her last word basically mean that the cullt will continue to search for their answer and that she was not the last one if there ever is a last one...
Anna: Oh dear this woman has a metal blindfold ATTACHED LIKE ACTUALLY ATTACHED to her face, should i CALL 911? Or use a frickin screwdriver to PRY IT OFFFF
@@emiliamarkkanen9423 nahh I’m talking about the good cartoons from the 90s/00s. “Wholesome” ones from later on are good for brain clearing. I’ve done it myself lol
I cried during the breaking down of Anna’s humanity. Also, my interpretation of the ending is that no one truly knows what happens when we die. Through all the women, Anna was the only one to witness and share her account. Now they will continue as that lady in charge killed herself.
I watched this movie a few years back with a friend, and I remember the basics of it, but I truly cannot remember any specific scenes or how graphic they were. I know it was extremely graphic but I cannot remember anything beyond that. I think it was so hard to deal with that my mind just let it all disappear after it was over. After watching this, some details came back, but I am so thankful my brain was like, "nah we don't need this, let's remember that time your voice cracked in front of the entire school in 8th grade."
@@ryanknight4952 I don't really, in all honesty is wasn't a scary movie in the traditional sense to me. It was disturbing beyond belief, but I don't think I ever felt afraid, but constantly uneasy. There we certainly some suspenseful parts, but it didn't scare me the way most horror movies do. I think it may have just disturbed me so much that I compartmentalized it to try and cope with it.
I watched it today and unless my version was cut I don't really agree with others claiming it's more gory than Saw or Hostel, or even comparing it to a serbian film etc. Yes, the concept is scary, the suffering by the victims is well portayed but otherwise I found it to be a little mediocre not only from a blood & gore standpoint. Overall a pretty okayish, sometimes boring movie.
That seems to be one of two audience reactions. Some viewers say "this is depressing, hard to watch, and depraved," and the others get hard from watching it and then try to excuse themselves by claiming that they're watching it for the story. Yeah, sure. And I bet people watched Last Tango in Paris for the cinematography and Saw for the character development lmfao.
@@hermionestranger4964 well said. I think torture movies and horror movies are completely separate. I've been watching horror movies since a young age. Not much scares me in movies other than torture. But ya, anyone who watches these movies alone and genuinely "likes" them, has some screws loose for sure.
@@hermionestranger4964 agree. I think there is some natural morbid fascination that most people have, including myself. But it doesn’t come close to the level of perversion you would need to enjoy movies like this. I do find more fantastical body horror like that of Junji Ito to be intriguing but, I find intentional torture and cruelty disgusting and deeply disturbing.
I can't deal with these kinds of movies at all even milder ones. Is just that they make me think a lot, and give me anxiety for someone's well being. If there's a person numb enough to come up with these ideas for movies, there's someone more fucked up out there that could or is already making them happen. And that mere thought desolates me, for my well being (cause life is just a lottery) and the posible victim that is passing through all this at this mere moment. All kinds of paranormal it's okay with me, but this is too real to entertain me...
@@nflores328 very well said. And to add onto that. It's something that you cant just get used to. Torture movies are not something that you can get desensitized to. It never feels normal
sane person: are you sure these girls aren't just dissociating or going insane from all the unspeakable agony you're putting them through? these lunatics: no, they're divine beings 🤩
T-S -unami That's the most torturous thing I've ever had to see especially when the furniture foot torn his toe nail out makes you go crazy as if you're feeling squidward own pain . It actually works on your mind.
My take on what she told Mademoiselle: Just the psychotic ramblings of someone who had all their cognitive faculties tortured out of them. Mademoiselle killed herself because she realised that her organisation wasn't a group of pioneers of the occult, just deranged old people afraid of death who'd been torturing women for no good reason.
This movie messed me up for weeks, i remember quiting popeyes because the silver kitchen reminded me of the lab she was in when she was soaking in the water after being flayed
This is a beautiful movie about redemption: I'm serious. There are three facts you need to focus on. 1. Midway through the movie, Anne is sorry she did not believe Lucie, who has now killed herself. 2. At the end of the movie, she is responsible for the death of the head of the organization that caused Lucie's suffering, and in doing so redeems herself. 3. The redemption is reinforced by showing us footage of the relationship between Anne and Lucie when they were kids. This is a story about unrequited love and redemption.
@@sw1rly801 if they throw me in the acid I still won't talk, if anything I'll be dead at that point because I imagine being skinned than thrown in a pool of acid after months of daily torture isn't exactly ideal conditions for the human body to survive in.
I like the thought that Anna didn’t tell her anything, she told her something incoherent or told her something like “you’ll never get to paradise, because you forced me to”. There’s something about the cult(?) being wholly excluded from the afterlife Anna saw brings a lil catharsis.
@@EdenFrost doesnt mean she told her anything of importance or substance. I wouldn’t want to say anything. Torture me and tell me to spill my guts i’m telling you just random bs from my pain and adrenaline blooded mind.
@@dudesinashoe7812 yeah I also agree with you. I’m not religious and even if I entertain the thought I don’t think that getting tortured by religious nuts gets you visions of heaven. She lost her mind ages ago and is just in delirium totally broken. Probably believing she saw heaven and told her some random bs and granny loved it or hated it we never know 😂
@@EdenFrost i know, and actually really like that we don’t get a concrete answer, but the thought of it being a final fuck you by being complete bs, or even better Anna just refusing to tell her (because i mean… already been flayed alive among a thousand other things, what else are you gonna do?) feels good in the same way that the MC of “I spit on your grave” going through her abusers in a bloody mess feels good
@@dudesinashoe7812 the thought yeah but I didn’t get a good feeling at all at the end. It was all just too much very disturbing. I didn’t need to see that 😂
@@yologod5512 gotcha... Is it of the "don't watch but you know you have to watch for it to give you a new perspective of the world" kind? Or the "you'll lose your mind and soul if you watch it" kind?
yep same, I can actually feel my stomach twisting without even seeing anything. never had that happen before with any other horror movie. thanks, I will skip this one lol
Horror films make me feel unsafe and depressed. I can only think about how things in these movies have happened to real people and how indescribably horrible the pain, terror, and trauma would be.
Honestly I would prefer Doom Eternal after this. After the initial fear, disgust and empathy, I feel a strong anger and even hatred towards the bad guys. Like I want to purge them from the face of the earth, out of pure fear. I guess it's true what they say about fear leading to hate huh
Once when I was 15, I asked my Dad if he knew of a good horror movie to watch. He casually said, “Martyrs, it’s pretty good.” So I sat down with a friend & yea, we were surprised
I first heard about this movie in 2013. I could not watch it.... I was too afraid. Until yesterday, that I finally did. I created an IMDB account, just to give it a nine. An then changing it into a ten, after thinking about it the entire night. I don't remember the last time that a movie affected me this much. I don't know if it's a work of art, or if the timing was right. Amazing effects. Great acting. The ending is... well, you know!!! Greeting from Greece!
Well I know this movie......... yeah I forgot that i got bored there maby the German version is just boring but I dunno can vaguely remember this arm cut scene but yeah, have seen worse stuff.
You know a movie is horrific when one of the tagline is "it makes saw look like sesame street", SAW, a movie known for its brutal and tortureous scenes, i respect you guys for actually watching the movie and i hope it didnt give any long term damage to any of you guys, i would have turn of the tv after the first 6 minutes.
I try to convince my self the visual effects in this movie are fake, but its so realistic that i seriously wouldnt be suprise if they actually kidnap someone and held them hostage for this movie. After i watched the movie after the video (out of curiousity), i regret every second that i spend watching that movie, i recommend that you dont watch this movie, unless you have balls of steel.
If it says it's "worse than saw" than that's the point and it probably has no value. Good thing it does have value Tbh geralds games hand gore scene is harder to watch than this movies hand gore scene
martyrs had me really shocked and disgusted right after watching but with time it became one of the best horror movies I’ve ever watched and I’m considering watching it again
Spoiler: My thoughts on the ending of the movie "Beware of unearned wisdom" - Carl Jung To me, the reason MM kills herself is that she hasn't suffered to achieve the eternal wisdom, ascension, afterlife, nirvana w/e you want to call it, that Ana shows her a glimpse of. She believes that all she needs is to have the knowledge handed to her by people she makes suffer, but isn't willing to earn it through suffering herself. She's a cheat and an evil one at that. Because of this, the wisdom is useless to her and she knows it, so she kills herself, as her quest is fruitless. She will never be a martyr, as she simply isn't willing to go through the struggle to be one. Ana earned her wisdom through suffering, even if it was against her will. It's a beautiful ending, in my opinion
What a failure. She just made a cult, tortured girls, and then she acts surprised like she didn't know how to achieve this wisdom? You wanna know the worst thing of this all? She's so similar to my aunt... God help me
I feel like the ending is more intentionally ambiguous. To me, it boils down to: 1. She saw something so amazing she had to die immediately and get there. 2. She saw nothing whatsoever and has realized her quest is in vain. 3. She saw something that she learned she can never attain given her life choices (sort of what you suggested). I do agree that the ending is beautiful, though.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory I would add a fourth one: 4- She saw something so horrible and bleak that it broke her mind, similar to what she did to all those girls.
What im confused about is how do they know that this "Martyrdom" is real? How do they know its not just the person hallucinating because they are LITERALLY tortured psychologically and physically to the max?
I think that's the point, they're all a bunch of deluded psychopaths that think that extreme suffering and pain somehow result in mystic powers rather than the obvious result of psychosis and then death.
So apparently, according to the director? Or someone that broke down the movie, the reason the one lady got the metal visor was that she DID fail. You either fail and then they "punish" you for the rest of your life, or you succeed and you "Martyr" and I guess die? Since we don't see the other girls...ever.
She got the metal visor as a way to block her vision permanently. Due to the extreme torture she would hallucinate bugs crawling on her skin. After Anna removes the metal visor there's a scene where the lady is scraping her own skin off of her arm with a big kitchen knife. Mademoiselle explains this to Anna during that talk.
@@essie. um you're KINDOF correct- you're getting a few of the facts from the movie all fucked up, and I'm not gonna sit here and type out every little detail -.- You guys, just go watch it again
@@d-lars just like the girl that killed herself with the knife, that other girl was also allucinating things, in this case, bugs all over her body, that's why she had that metal thing in from of her eyes, to not see them and keep harming herself. That's all you gotta know, I dunno where they got the thought of the director saying that girl failed at being a martyr
@@GNICHO Are you serious right now? really? google the atrocities of the assyrian king ashurbanipal, or find out what vlad the impaler actually did, look into the various methods of ritualistic sacrifice the aztecs had, or just 'medieval torture device' and you'll get your answer.
I watched this movie for Sardonicast and basically had the same reaction as you. This is probably the only movie where I'd tell people "this is a great movie, don't watch it!" Also for the ending, I think Mademoiselle decided that what comes after death is better than living and she wanted to get there as fast as possible.
Why did she look so sad then? Wouldn't she be carefee, excited, happy? And why wait til later, why not right after hearing the answer of it was that good?
Never seen it never gonna see it, but already see a logic flaw unless its pointed out. Assuming they’re religious talking about an afterlife, so isn’t it pretty stupid to torture people which pretty much guarantees a ticket to hell including all the rich people who paid for it?
They actually do explain why the woman had the metal thing covering her eyes. She was hallucinating just like Lucie was, she saw bugs crawling all over her skin and when she was cutting her hand and rubbing her head against the wall, she was trying to get rid of the imaginary itch that she was experiencing. I have watched Martyrs (2008) multiple times and in my honest opinion it's one of the best horror movies there are, i like the theme and the actors do a really good job in their roles. Cheers and happy Halloween.
@Cyborg Gerbil That doesn't make sense. If you know you're going to hell, you probably won't try and expedite that process. And why Jesus ? Why not Seth waiting with a weight to check her hearth ? Or Hades ? Or the flying spaghetti monster ?
I do not accept the possibility that everyone in this movie's universe goes to Heaven, or the good part of the afterlife or whatever. Mademoiselle probably thought she'd go there, but ended up in the same torture she put others through. Also why near-death by torture? There are other ways to almost kill someone & keep them at the verge of life and death. The torture factor isn't obligatory. The fact that some folks just wanna see people gag..
I didn't understand the ending at all. What can she achieve through suicide? In Christian beliefs it's a ticket to hell. In Muslim beliefs as well. As far as I know there is nothing like hell in the Jewish belief. Buddhists actually believe that the final end of existence is nirvana, because after endless reincarnations it will be the ultimate absence of suffering. But that mademoiselle wouldn't have lived her life according to the Buddhist virtues. So it would only make sense according to Jewish belief? Well I actually don't have a clue if that is reasonable, because I don't know the Talmud. And addressing only Jewish people would also be somewhat strange. Therefore it's probably just a fantasy ending just like in Catacombs (SPOILER) where everything's upside down in the end. I just want to say that exactly these two movies made me loose interest in horror movies. Martyrs was only disgusting and Catacombs was simply boring. The best one I saw lately was Dr. Sleep but that mostly because I'm a Stephen King addict. 😅
The whole transcending thing is reminiscent of what they do in deadpool where they put someone really close to death until they like mutate except this is much more violent.
I liked your comment for the first bit, but I don’t really agree with the second half. I’d say being deprived of oxygen would be better than being skinned alive
The use of the metal blindfold was explained in the movie. That girl was seeing roaches or bugs creeping all over her body. The woman who shot her said it. 😆
Yeah, don't. It is right up there with the most depressing horrific movies I've ever seen. My ex-boyfriend put it on and I never would have chosen it. Anyway my other least favorite movie as far as content, well as far as everything, is AI.
@@erinshann3055 holy yikes, what kind of BF thinks this a good thing to share with people, much less his girlfriend? Uh... I hope your relationship ended amicably because this is a weird film to share with your loved one at random.
Glad you enjoyed!
Good
Magnificent
i got second hand trauma from this video
You sir are a sadist, never change.
Jaysus Christ, Adam!
I just watched Adum and Pals and then you drop this shit on us.
this whole movie is a reminder of:
if you see some weird shit, call the police
"what if they arrest me?"
bro you'd be safer at jail than in the hands of these lunatics
Image after being skinned she just lied and said it's beautiful to take kinda revenge😅
the govern was probably in this, as always
I would just bolt the heck out of there and dont look back or stop until I'm in like a store, wait to see if I'm still chased then keep going but find a different route going away from the area I was at.
@@LuanaSantos-rl4sb Or maybe the Government didn't know anything.
@@artistanthony1007 run til you found a store? I would only stop when I got to mars
this whole movie can be summed up in one quote
"stop he's already dead!"
Me when woman
No it can't, what?
WHY DID I LAUGH SO LOUD DAMN
* she's *
@@ps2_abbacchio
Women am i right
You know its graphic when all of the censored pixels are pure red
mhm
Fact though
what is the name of the music which is in the intro/patreon section
@@natantitelbaum6061
Dummy theme from undertale
@@umlautabuser2769 tHaNkS MaTe (It wasn't Dummy theme from undertale. Obviously)
The woman was blindfolded, because she was seeing cockroaches crawling over her. So the blindfold was supposed to calm her down, but after Anna took it off, the woman started hallucinating again and hurting herself.
I always assumed sensory deprivation was just her unique case of systematic torture, just like being flayed alive was Anna's
Logical inconsistency in the movie.. if the creature / zombie lady wasn't real, who sliced up Lucy's back?
@@scroopynooperz9051 Herself
@@loomingmoon4682not really a thing you can do. It's hard to reach your back let alone put enough force on a blade to make the cuts she had
@@whiskeythunder2348 No that's just untrue, a sharp enough blade could easily cut your back to shit and honestly without much force or effort from the user
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I love that Mademoiselle decided to wait until she had everyone travel all that way to gather at her place before offing herself. Truly living for the drama of it all.
But then they know she only killed herself cuz she was satisfied with what she heard so, they know they're good to go.
she obviously couldn't tell the eternal secret or she would have been denied paradise. No one can know whats after death
a fucking power move honestly
“what is the answer of the question we’ve tortured hundreds of girls for that we finally have?”
“figure it out bitch”
@@marc-etiennemercier6584 I mean I wouldn’t trust that at all, it coulda been sumthin so terrifying and unexplainable that she just didn’t wanna live with such knowledge and killed herself. I wouldn’t hear a gunshot and think “yeh iss prolly safe to die now bois” 😂
@@barakaafrobama6519 Well, what did she want to hide? If it was terryfying, she would've gladly told everybody.
i watched it with my mom and she said "jeez, they skinned her that sucks." and "yikes, that probably hurt" and "wow thst looks so real." so yea i think my mom is insane.
Edit: me and the mother recently watched the remake of martyrs, her summary was: “yeah that sucked, put on the original, rather watch that ten time then this trash.” I love my mom ❤️
😂
"unlucky"
I think she is amazing, she was capabled of doing the thing that most ppl can not do or refuse to. Attach reality and fiction. Even though there r a lot of things in real life that even more messed up than movies/series, but the moment you sit through the screen, having the ability to know that: "it is not real, at this moment, you can't hurt me". At some level, it is once hell of a skill. Better keeping it medium tho, or not you will not be able to understand metaphor or profound stuffs.
@@inthenameofloveandsadness Yeah, my mom is pretty cool
I thought the same i don't understand what's all the fuss is about
Ok but Anna should have called the cops long time ago
Right "OMG there's dead bodies!!!!! Im gonna go to sleep on a bed first."
no! Nein! Bushi! N'yet! You phone 911 / 999 and get da fuck outta there. Your lesbian lover is a serial killer. Run, bitch. RUUUUUUN!
She would've been arrested for being an accomplice I think
Called the cops? For what?.
These people tortured her and you want lucie to get in trouble?
Lucie would be getting my help in every step.
Anna should’ve left the house long ago 😂 like why would you just hangout there? I’d been gone the second I got to the house. “Lucie we gotta GO”
WHY?! WHY THE FUCKING HELL??!!!
Lucie did nothing wrong!!! Lucie was an innocent child, who was driven to insanity by torture! She rightly killed her tormentors and never would have killed the children without her childhood experiences! It's not her fault! She only gave these pigs something even mildly und merciful compared, to what they really deserved! They shed the first blood, they blackened the heart of an innocent, little, defenseless girl and systematically drove her into madness and to her death! The Death of the children was senseless and unfortunate, but she was desperate and tormented by her monstrous hallucination!
"You should avoid this movie like the plague"
*That's, why, I'm here*
Ive watched it its not that bad tbh
@@BigBoyga I watched half this video and I am sick already xD
@@sadek__4952 so im also half way but i watched a different movie
@@sadek__4952 i dont feel safe
@@sadek__4952 help
You didn't mention that Anna doesn't know whether or not Lucie has just murdered an entire innocent family(until she finds the victim) but goes along with it anyway.Also the family laughing about the dead mouse over breakfast and not being repulsed like any normal family,indicates to me the children knew exactly what went on in the house.
@@ИванИвановИванович-т1ф true true, but it's literally a cult. I'm sure they've had their son go down there and do things to that woman that Anna found...
@@ИванИвановИванович-т1ф exactly
I don't the children knew anything. Their parents would have tried indoctrinating them once they grew up but they had no reason to tell them they torture people for a cult when they're kids.
@@tiaaaron3278 - I've always thought that the kids didn't know, for the simple reason that it would be impossible to trust kids with such an enormous secret. If one of them spill the beans for whatever reason, the entire cult is in grave danger.
So my guess has always been that all the cult's houses that welcomes martyrs-in-training would have to keep it a secret, the alternative just raises way too many questions.
I've also watched the american 2016 remake, it's not as good as the OG but one of Elvis' complains is adressed, as Lucy tries was harder to escape from the death squad sent to the home to TCB.
There's a little sub-plot where she runs away and hides from them for a while, she even has to hide beneath corpes and shit.
The violence/gore is toned down a lot though, and the ending is very different. Anna is actually produced in front of the sect in the remake.
And in this one, there is no ambiguity about the message, it's definitely some kind of "lnwoledge humans weren't supposed to possess" that causes one of the high priests who over-hears it to immediately panic, take a gun from someone else and blow his own head off.
The original is still way better, especially acting wise, but the remake isn't 100% trash like most american remakes, so I take it as an absolute win.
@@randallflagg3700 I don't know about the remake but in this one, the cult clearly consisted of deluded loons and Anna was hypothermic and tortured and saw some hallucinations which didn't mean anything. The leader killed herself because she understood little and wanted to see it for herself.
I have been intending to watch this film for the last 5-10 years. The premise always intrigued me. But, you know, I’ve decided I’m going to pass. Twenty years ago I would have been all over something like this. But as I’ve hit middle age and have experienced loss and sorrow on a larger scale the last thing I have any interest in is signing up for an endurance test in cruelty and nihilism. This review covered everything I was curious about. I don’t need to watch it. I’m good.
Dude it’s not that bad lol
I understand. I used to be all about "ART" and not entertainment. But coming off a pandemic and everything else, we need things that distract us just as much as pushes the questions that remain unanswered. I watched this film, and I have a very extensive history of stomaching all kinds of horror. But this isn't even scary - it's just bleak.
Honestly if you could sit through Hostel, you’ll tolerate this film. They are vastly similar in most aspects
@@Rico401Prov I think Martyrs was WAAAAY more gruesome than Hostel. Hostel also has some scenes but a big difference is that in Martyrs it almost never stops, it's contantly throwing horror after horror at you without any break and it just gets worse and worse.
I used to love watching these crazy movies when I was in my early 20s but now that I'm nearing 30 for some reason I've become much more sensitive to this stuff, I don't understand why. I just don't enjoy it anymore and every time I watch these super violent movies I ask myself "Why REALLY are you watching this?". There's nothing wrong with morbid curiosity but I've lost it. I still love horror films but these type of films are too much for me now.
@@1337Figaro yeah I agree to some extent. Hostel 1 is bad but not for the majority of the film. I say aspects of all 3 hostel movies can equate to Martyrs. I’m 32 and have seen actual murder videos so none of what I see in movies can affect me like those have but overall it’s a sad world we live in. Stay sane, bro
"This makes Saw look like Sesame Street"
How is that a selling point?????
It isn’t. Saw at least you had the sense the “victims” deserved there fate. This is just bleak
It's pretty obvious that this film isn't trying to appeal to a mainstream audience, so maybe that's their way of scaring those type of people away.
@@TwoBs I don't remember where I read it. But the director supposedly said that he made Martyrs as a response to the "torture p0rn" craze and wanted something that was about emotional and physical suffering rather than torture.
I like horror movies. Ones which try to be scary with scares. Not stabby stabby slashy slashy for the sake of being stabby stabby slashy slashy. There's a difference. I guess.
Lmao
I read an interpretation that Anna lied to Mademoiselle about what she saw, effectively destroying the cult and getting her final victory or revenge. I always thought that was a cool take on the ending
Its as close to the correct one, she didn't lie to her, she just told her she wasn't going to tell her. Imagine putting people through all that suffering and finally finding someone who "sees" and that someone tells you to fuck off and let them enjoy what they earned with their pain.
i wonder if at that point of her injuries, she was conscious enough to be so clever about it though and come up with something? i hope so anyways
@@ombra711 That would be pretty explaining, since Madammoiselle killed herself due to inflicting so much pain to people and yet at the end, earning nothing from it
yea, I mean, why would you tell the truth to someone who has been torturing you...
@@WaxTheDolphin probably in hopes that the pain would finally end
Never seen this movie. Never will. Just hearing everything about this movie made me both cringe and wince. Thanks! :D
Don't! I'm traumatized just from the review.....
@Banyuaigo I value my sanity more than a movie
I'm really bad with gorefests, and just having Elvis explain it makes me wanna vomit. I really love Xavier Dolan (the actor who played the son), and knew this is a film he was in, but now that I know what happens, I just, yeah, I'm out.
I wish I could upvote this more then once XDDDDD
I've seen the the 2015 which... still made me want to puke and still being too much to handle but after seeing clips of the 2008 version, my eyes are still tainted to this day.
My personal take on why Anna survived and achieved martyrdom when nobody else did is that she understood suffering like none of the other torture victims did. She basically raised Lucie, while growing up herself. I can't fathom the stress that Anna went through, and the strength she built up. The first thing she does when she finds the bound woman is to bath her, and try to take care of her. She's incredibly strong. Also, my interpretation of the ending is that...finding out the secret to life and our meaning on Earth stripped Mademoiselle of her desire to keep living. She finds out the truth, and suddenly everything has lost it's meaning for her. She strips away her headwrap. She pulls off her eyelashes. She wipes off her makeup. It's all meaningless to her now. So her final words to "keep doubting", means "keep living" basically. As soon as you find out the truth, your will to live disappears.
Actually the closest theory to the intended meaning
So basically what she found out is that the afterlife is so amazing and better than the living that she had to kill herself correct? And the “keep living” part was basically telling the other cult members to keep living and continuing to kidnap and torture women . Which is basically what’s gonna happen.
@@eden20111 That's not fully my interpretation, no. Maybe she told her that the afterlife is nothing. Maybe humanity was created as an experiment. Like rats in a maze. Maybe there's nothing to look forward to, nothing to hope for. That could also remove someone's will to live. I think if if the afterlife was amazing, then Mademoiselle would have simply told the others and they would have committed mass suicide or something. I think what she really told her is actually very bleak.
If she was lucid enough to do that she was lucid enough to say "fuck off" or lie about it.
exactly. If you think about it nothing else makes sense other than this. There is absolutely no point in "after death". Anna got tortured and abused ffs, there is no excuse for it. The movie makes you think that this torture was perhaps reasonable when its absolutely not lol. All those people who torture are just psychopaths who love torturing, as simple as that. @@GrimGearheart
Even censored all the graphic scenes I’m still traumatized
Even Speedwagon is traumatized.
Üf, same
@@thebirthdayskeleton2927 is that a juju refrence
lul
I didn't turn my head those scenes were rather entertaining to me
SPEEEEED WAGGOOOUN
This movie taught me that I don't have to see everything in my life.
@esad give me suggestions lol
@esad just tell me some
A Serbian film for starters
@@3ginmyblunt u shouldnt watch them...
its not worth it
@@astaut2659 same for u
Every laugh he makes sounds like he’s on the brink of crying
Aren't we all
Cuz he is.
Yes
No he’s actually going insane
He looks high to me.
The genre of this type of film is called New French Extremity, they are artistic, bold films that often explore the nature and impact of violence. The violence is not meant to be passively spectated like it normally is in horror films, but to confront the viewer with the reality and human consequences of the violence and brutality. The director called the film an "anti-hostel."
The director himself dislikes that genre label tho.
Ah there's a name for it. Makes sense. Independent of anyone else describing this genre, I kind of associated this French movie with another one... the name I forget... it takes place in a rave or something, everyone is drugged, and brutal violence follows.
I concocted an opinion that this must be some sort of French nihilistic art film movement
@@VinceP1974climax de Gaspard Noé
@@maximesouverain5970one of my favorite movies
The movie Funny Games was made to address this same issue with violence in film
the skinning scene is especially disturbing because up until that point, you've kinda held on to the hope that anna might escape. then she gets skinned and that hope just dies. there's no going back to any kind of normal or worthy life from that. it's so heartbreaking and gruesome.
It’s what makes martyrs so disturbing and depressing how You just witness this helpless woman subject to cruelty and relentless torture and their isn’t a single chance she’s actually gonna get out alive
Lol she had plenty of opportunities to not make the absolute dumbest choices she could make. At the point she got caught, most people probably lost interest in the character anyways lol
Instead of attemtping to phone the cops and explaining that her tortured friend went shotgun ham on her childhood torturers, that there's seemingly all kinds of fcuked up stuff happening with these weird and connected occult-like folks, and getting the hell out of dodge...
she actually falls asleep in that creepy house, with all the dead bodies and phones her estranged mum the next day 😂
One could argue she was secretly hoping to lose her skin lol
There's simply no way back from characters not acting if not predictably, at least logically.
Yeah this movie is pretty gnarly. Just wish she would’ve atleast left after Lucie offed herself
It doesn’t make sense to me that she could withhold a full body skinning to that extent and still be living!!
The body can only take so much, to me it would have been more realistic if it was most of her skin but not all of it! How is her face in tact with no bruising?! A punch to the nose causes bruising around the eyes and face! Let alone severe trauma to the whole surrounding areas!
Also, they completely removed all of her skin, fatty tissue and external body like breast, ears, outer vaginal skin and labia, skull (meningeal) etc … and she’s still conscious. I feel like she would have had so much pain it would lead to cardiac arrest, stroke or for whatever reason, sudden death! I never see anyone comment on this! But the last scene with a full body flayed but still alive, just makes no sense to me and I never see anyone comment on it 😭 that’s my only criticism, biologically it’s unrealistic. But then again, I’m aware that being able to sustain this type of severe torture is a rarity! (Which I guess is the point of the movie) But it’s still impressive and simultaneously unbelievable that a person can withstand this torture and stay conscious enough to even physically talk let alone comprehend their external environment. Even still, it’s my one downfall of this movie! It’s brilliant but I still feel unsatisfied
This movie is one of the movies where the main character doesn’t win, hell, she doesn’t even have a stalemate. She just loses
Why didn’t Anna just call the police after finding Blind Fold lady instead of trying to REMOVE the thing herself
Because she helped murdering the family that lived in the house?
@@absolutelyterrible4108 yeah as Elvis said, Anna might didn’t „expect“ them to be the Martyrs organization thingy
"So the movie could happen!"
"That works!"
-screenwriter guy
Bad writing.. She should have called the police multiple times..it could be a drinking game.
@@elena_mrrp No she didn't. She tried to save the mother of the torture family.
The "worst" part of the movie is the anticipation/apprehension of what's to come when she is captured. The cold/clinical interview and process. The realization that she is going to go through what the others went through. That there was no escape. She was going to experience whatever it is that caused the other girls to lose their minds.
And she still got it TEN TIMES WORSE
This is what freaked me out the most too
And she is the only good person in the movies and i was praying from the moment I saw that torture chamber that she would get away.
@@supungamage9156 The nicest person in the movie, but not totally good (but still good overall). Because upon seeing what her friend did to a family (before she knew what they actually did this is just me assuming ofc because I didn't watch the movie and definitely won't because torture porn isn't quite my taste) including the kids she literally tried to cover up the massacre. Though she did try to save the one person after realizing she was still alive. So give and take I suppose.
Like for all she knew Lucie could've just massacred a family for no reason especially since she would've appeared insane. Though I don't think even the worst human being should suffer the fate she suffered. Like yikes.
@@cannedsquasher5923
She withheld the secrets for Lucie because of what happened to her, I think her girlfriend told her what would happen to these people, since Lucie only trusted Anna. The realization of what exactly that was set in once she saw the bodies.
Not to mention, I think Lucie was a good person, since she was tortured, and suffering from survivor’s guilt with no real mental health help, and killed off some horrible people. The children? Don’t know it they were apart of it, but they definitely would have noticed all of this shit. It’s better they were to die, than to possibly tortured by the organization. Especially the daughter. Does this mean Lucie is obviously a perfect person? No. It just means her character had more layers, and was acting on trauma, and protecting others to make up for something that wasn’t her fault as a child. Anna and Lucie were the only “good” people in this movie, but there are nuances to their faults, and bad sides. There is no true “good” character.
Thing that bothered me about this movie is all Anna had to do is leave. But instead she starts exploring the place.
Also one thing i hated was how when the victim she found was going crazy she couldnt stop her... like that makes fucking no sense because anna is a healthy woman while the other woman was malnourished and should have no power. How could she not stop her? that was a very cheap way to dramatise it man.
@@armaanb.6566do you want to have a fist fight and roll around on the floor with a human that looks like that woman did? Shawty was prolly freaked out
@@farikoliquidz4606 she could have definitely handled the situation better, atleast take the knife out of her hand. Its just a minor nitpick from me. Also nice pfp lol
She wasn’t sure the family was guilty until she found the victim
pissed me off so bad she literally should've left at so many points she should've convinced lucie to turn herself in and get help instead of burying the bodies she should've left when she found the half dead lady instead of subjecting her to even more pain trying to bathe her like jesus ur seeing pictures of actual people who were tortures ur in an eerily empty underground bunker in the middle of the woods here no one can find u and u decide to fucking go down into it like she had 0 survival instincts
Watch Martyrs with some friends, take note of who seems to enjoy watching it, and never call them again.
Well if you don't like those movies why watch them?
@@taserrr I watched about 10 seconds of the beginning and I was done
@@quintfl Well yeah I always look up what kind of movie it is before watching. Like I get your comment was a joke but still it's odd, most of your friends won't like it as this type of movie isn't popular but the ones that like this genre will obviously like it as it's one of the better movies in it's field.
This is the greatest movie ever made wtf are you talking about. Your the weird one.
Why? it’s a brilliant film
True Story: watched this on a very successful first date. Neither of us knew anything about it so i guess it trauma bonded us or something.
how did it go with them ?
u still together?
Y’all still together?
@@katybug6572 lol no, but we had a good run and are still friends.
Great story for the kids 😄
I watched a servian film with my gf the first week of going out, still together
“Very disturbing, possibly scarring movie”
Me eating dinner, “mmmm yes I see”
I really wanted to like this comment but you are at 217 and as weird as it sounds, that is one of my fave string of numbers. Anyway, your comment literally made me lol
I’m watching this at 1100 pm in bed, maybe I am just a retard
Yes. RELATABLE.
BRUH IM LITERALLY EATING DINNER RIGHT NOW 💀
@@lurr875 I mean I watched it at 4pm in my backyard while the lights were off and it didn’t do anything to me
There is legitimately no way that the kids didn't have some sort of clue. Honestly the son's silence tells you all you need to know.
yeah a cabinet in the kitchen leading to a secret room? no shot they didnt know
I think the son knew, idk about the daughter though
'Martyrs' is simultaneously a film that everyone should see, and that no one should see.
Another film I highly recommend is Come And See. Jesus christ that movie is both beautiful and horrifying. A must watch!
@@rienkert3852 honestly come and see is the most haunting movie I have ever seen. It's both strangly beautiful ( the shots not the content) and beyond horrible. I highly recommend it, but only if you're open to feeling indescribable pain while watching it, and then being depressed for weeks later
@@maialapointe1452 Oh absolutely! The cinematography is outstanding, it blends perfectly with the music and overall sound design. In my opinion the best anti-war film ever made.
@@CoryPchajek What? That film is nothing even close. Lay of the drugs...literally
So French a Serbian film basically
I CANT WATCH EVEN WITH THE BLUR
ME TOO I CAN'T
@@rotary1742 our boi elvis got us yo
I did. Was laughing to hard because of the reactions it's gold
@@envygd4902 cool bro
I watched that movie when I was a fucking kid
Also this is so horrible but I never get to use this unfun fact so here we go.
Un-Fun Fact: You can survive being skinned alive, you will die soon after (approximately 4 to 5 hours) but not because of blood loss but hypothermia, your skin is important for regulating body temperature and your body will drop to the external temperature without it, hypothermia can cause hallucination, insanity and loss of senses much like the Maryer state. It's quite possible she was freezing to death and losing her mind not seeing into the after life.
considering how brainwashed and delusional such cults are, I can bet that for them ''they transcended and saw afterlife'' would be more believable than hypothermia. Or I can see them trying to believe that hypothermia is just a medical definition of ''transcending''
@@Monicalia NO known cults like the one from this movie exist. Well they do, but they usually convinced innocent people to commit suicide or tricked them like Jonestown.
oh
@@worm9862 ''no known'' there are so many cults you literally have no idea if a cult like that exist. I wouldn't be surprised if they did, given how weird and brutal people can be. second, I was clearly and specifically talking about the cult from the movie. third, I just said that considering how delusional cults can be, they'd find a way to excuse any sick torture they put people through. third, there were disgusting murders-rituals committed by cults.
@rofl datch it would be possible if she was kept wrapped in wet bandages at 98.2°F but then her skin couldn't repair or worse it would fuse with the bandages and couldn't be cut off without flaying her again. Many people who get 4th and 5th degree burns die from either this or infection in wounds that are burned shut, the burned flesh must be removed before sepsis sets into the narcotic flesh and too much can set in hypothermia from radical body temp deregulation. Your skin keeps in 90% of your internal heat and that heat is essential for regulating the metabolic rate when it slows your heart does and inturn your brain dies from lack of oxygenation blood too high the heart rate goes up with but can't adjust the oxygen levels and similar issues occur. It's possible but extremely unlikely, besides no should be flayed alive and if they are, the psycho doing it doesn't expect them to last long. Best guess is probably a few days at most, when the bandages start fusion with new skin sepsis will set in and waste will accelerate this, if she had round the clock aid from medical professionals in a full medical hospital she could possibly survive but it would a miracle and they would need to be there in about 10 minutes after the end of the film assuming it took 2 hours to call the Cultist and and 30 minutes to abandon the house and call the authorities to let them know there are dozens of victims in the basement with a girl skinned alive in an antibiotic bath hallucinating.
I've heard about this movie so many times but it was always presented as a revenge flick whereby the both girls were tortured and they got revenge on their torturers. Having watched this, I'm glad that I never gave into curiosity because Lucie dying and Anna basically taking her place would've pissed me off to no end.
The description of the movie was a little manipulative. I too thought Lucy was going to be chasing her torturers, and I was one hour into the movie waiting for the next people in the list. I got disappointed, but the scenes were so good they hurt.
Anna should've just left the house after Lucy died.
Oh definitively lmaooo
Then she's not a martyr.
@@jerickson12345 Exactly. She gave herself up, so to speak.
Anna should've just not be with Lucy in the first place. What is this film?
Or called the police
It's worse knowing that people have really been tortured like this in real life, different circumstances but it hurts worse hearing about these cases.
it's only going to get worse
Actually there was an experiment conducted that was very similar to this though I can not recall the date or country
@TOBASCO GLADIO MATTEO lots of people have been flayed alive in ancient history
@TOBASCO GLADIO MATTEO Even so it isn't like people still aren't being tortured, I mean there's cartel videos of people's faces being flayed off and stuff so you can't exactly say it's a thing of the past.
@TOBASCO GLADIO MATTEO what you're telling me people get tortured? Nonsense!
Just from hearing about this movie it made me feel horrible, nauseous, depressed. I will never watch this film, can't take it.
I agree completely with the statement that you have just said
Same
Hearing about this movie kinda made me wanna watch this
At the same time i don't generally even like horror, so i know for sure i wouldn't like it at all
Don’t watch it. It was the only movie that made me sick. It really is disgusting
Same
20:10 I believe it’s because she failed and started hallucinating and became destructive so they had to obstruct her sight to prevent her from hallucinating
This makes a lot of sense because she was trying to cut off her arm
When I saw the title I knew what was going to happen
Bet cha did
Same and I am scaref
I saw the tittle and remembered still watched lol
I feel like my nervous system just got damaged from hearing short parts of this movie. Thank you so much for not showing too much of this. This is an amazing movie that I never want to see ever. Pretty sure I would throw up the whole entire time. Yep. not my cup of tea...
I’m with you. I watched a video once that included a blurred photo of someone who had gotten caught in the Chernobyl blast. The guy survived, but was in brutal condition and the government kept him alive to run tests on him. The blurred photo wasn’t blurred enough as you could make out the figure and the color - which indicated severe burns or worse. I have had that picture stuck in my mind ever since.
@@ayekantspeylgud the what blast?
@@summerhunny There was a nuclear meltdown in Chernobyl years and years ago causing mass radiation to the surrounding area
@@summerhunny
Wtf how...can you NOT know about this?!
I agree, even hearing that one shot of the girls wails as she’s getting her skin peeled off was enough to make me squirm in my seat
Yeah, this is actually interesting disturbed film. not like a Serbian film. that is just made for grotesque purpose. Or
August Underground's Mordum
A Serbian Film was very metaphorical about being born in Serbia. Every terrifying scene was a metaphor. It wasn't just to be grotesque.
One is very gory and the other one psichologically fucked.
I have watched A Serbian Film just once because i dont think is good to watch it more than one time, its a critique(by the movie, description apparently), but i think is too much to even be a critique.
@@Cjiscj777 A Serbian Film is absolutely nauseating. Necrophilia mixed with child molestation (including the rape of a literal newborn), rape, suicide, murder, incest, and a "director" orchestrating everything. It's just sick and depraved, with no purpose.
My biggest regret is watching that movie. Never been so disgusted by a movie before and I get it was meant to show the life of living in Serbia but it went way too far
@@blingblingjhope8502 That's just the excuse the mentally disturbed director used to justify that repugnant film. Whatever message he was trying to convey, he didn't need to use the rape of newborn children, murder, incestuous rape, oral rape, and more rape. Only a sick individual could come up with something like that, let alone direct it and call it art.
This movie has an amazing story and concept, but I don’t think it’s something I could ever stomach
does it? what's so amazing about it?
the fact it's based off a true story. :(
@@bugbitez lol the fact that people still get fooled by that shit
@@henhicktaimon damn sorry it was jut on google 😭, apparently it was in the soviet union but if it's not true then my bad
@@bugbitez any time you see "based on a true story" they are almost certainly playing extremely fast and loose with the definitions involved. if it's something that actually happened, they wouldn't have to use creative language, they would just say so directly.
The fact that you blurred this and I haven't watched the movie but I'm still disgusted and disturbed is crazy
It's not even totally blurred.
Watch the French original
I'm actually half tempted to see it now that I've realized my imagination was WAY fucking worse than the movie(on the detail of the blind folded woman's headpiece being ripped off)
The glimpses i saw made her look more typical leather face fucked up once it got ripped off. I expected there to be a huge piece of her entire skull missing, leaving entire eyes(pale and white, maybe red and irritated from blindness for however long) exposed, no nose at all.
Basically imagine if someone took an inch DEEP of all the bone and skull(which would pull the nose clean off, no lips, etc.) that was covered in metal, and imagine that being carved off and it was what I imagined it being.
Idk, point is, one detail made me chuckle when I thought I can at least rest easy thinking THAT stomach churning detail wasn't thought up lol
@@williamhuff4192 this is the french original
@@mutt9779 hmmm ahhhh yeeeaaahh ooookaaaayyy
You cannot be human if you're not grossed out by this film. Jesus tap-dancing christ.
Nah I was shit faced and when I get drunk whenever I watch movies I cannot get invested in them because all I imagine is how the filming process went which for this movie I found hilarious cuz the thought of a girl slitting her throat and dying and then a director saying 'again' was fucking comedy gold.
I rewatched it 2 days later while sober and couldn't get halfway through before turning it off and seriously considering booking a therapist so I think I'm not a total psycho.
I guess i not human
“jesus tap-dancing christ”
@@ericholgate6210 Yeah, clearly.
the fact that this movie was on like tier three of the disturbing movie iceburg has me so worried
Right I was like how bad can it get?
If you’re not comfortable watching a girl get the shit beat out of her for almost 30 minutes I wouldn’t watch it. It is a great movie though, just make sure you watch the French unrated version.
@@rippindrummer666 Looks like I'll have to learn French.
oh man, that iceberg was a ride of (mostly negative) emotions, I got so fucking depressed, but y'know, that's the world we live in, can't do shit about fuck :/
@@nastropan horrible, but unsurprising
I watched this in one of those horror nights at movie theaters and this was my absolute favourite. It's beautiful and beautifully decided in three acts, and yes it's gorey but it's am incredible film. That being said I don't plan to ever EVER watch it again
Get some help
@@venm766 huh
What makes it so incredible? From just this video I was reminded of Euphoria quite a bit (exchange physical torture for sexual and mental torture) and I can definitely say that was a great game. After a while I even started skipping through the sex scenes, just so I could advance the plot.
I'm not one for the TP genre, so I'll never watch the hardcore shit (Martyrs/Serbian), but I wonder if the story's really enough to almost make up for it.
Lol
@@dowfreak7 In my opinion, it is. Go watch Max Derret's video on it. Of course, the plot can be explained without the torture, but it doesn't hold as much weight. I highly recommend his video on it.
The reason they covered the woman's face was because she had a mental break and she kept seeing hallucinations of insects crawling all over her body and because her mind broke she wasn't a good candidate for martyrdom this was explained in the movie, you probably missed it as the scenes in the movie are so intense
@Cenestpasmapersonnalité
Notes 🤷♂️
@Cenestpasmapersonnalité
“Maybe at the time they took some notes Idk (or shrug) man”
@Cenestpasmapersonnalité cuz i get the feeling they had clients with other interests... so they could have sold her to wealthy people who liked to torture..
@Cenestpasmapersonnalité those girls probably died of suffering
Yeah, and it causes her to aggressively itch her head, which is why she started rubbing it on the wall when the helmet was removed.
Lucie at the door with a shotgun. Sounds like a Beatles song.
🎶Lucie’s gotta gun, she’s gotta gun. You better run. Girl’s gotta gun she won’t stop til you’re done. 🎶
Have you ever been traumatized by a movie you haven’t even seen?
this video done did that one
@@skimpskomp sure did lmao, props to Elvis for sitting through it for our entertainment lol
Ok this is embarrassing but the C.H.U.D commercial from the 80’s.
Never saw the movie.
I am now
A Serbian Film! Watched a review not even the movie and now I'm horrified and disgusted!
From another video by commenter SquishedFaeries:
"Anna didn't accept her fate until after Lucie came to her. That is when she finally let go.
Love was the key. Anna's love for Lucie. Her pure devotion and loyalty. That is why some Martyrs were religious in nature as it was their love for God that sustained them through their torment, while other Martyrs - those without religious convictions - were able still able to achieve spiritual transcendence due to their love for another person.
That was the secret. That is what the society didn't understand, because they were incapable of experiencing pure, selfless love.
The truly tragic part is that the people responsible for all of this are still ignorant to that one, crucial part. So they will continue to fail, time and time again."
Anna went insane from torture thats it. No afterlife no nothing.
Except the ones paying the price for their failure will be innocent women & children. So as "profound" as this comment is, or tried to be, it fails when the bad guys essentially didn't lose shit and will proceed with what they were doing.
Him: this is the worst scene in the movie
5 minute later...
“This is the worse scene in the movie”
everything in this movie is traumatising I think I might get nightmares from this no wonder movies are 18+ I think I might ban this from Russia
That's Martyrs though, every scene is the worst scene of the movie
@@RobinYoBoi19YT lol
If this is what passes for horrific these days the younger generation must be light weights. Shot the Hostel movies are more horrific than this trash.
@@titaniumquarrion9838 weird flex but ok
The women that weren't "martyred" had dissociated. This extreme violence and torture can either make one into a martyr or they dissociate (other than just dying). The woman with the metal mask was kept that way (why she was even kept alive makes no sense to me) because she had severe hallucinations and if I remember correctly, she saw bugs crawling in her skin. So when Anna took the mask off, the mask lady was "able" to see her hallucinations in real life. Thus, cutting her arm off to let the bugs escape. Yup.
@stupid people I don't remember that. I guess I'll never confirm that cause I'll never watch it again lol
Oh god
@stupid people they kept torturing in hopes of eventually martyrdom
Probably;
😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣🤘
The “look at their eyes” scene still crawls under my skin.
Why?
It’s very ominous and tense, so I can see why you still feel that crawl or chill in your spine
@@illitaret8780 Just watch it. The photos they show during that scene are real photos of people that have been killed. Obviously not by the filmmakers.
@@a.p.5342 omg for real????
When it zoomed into Anna's eye after she's a martyred I got a applebees ad and I cannot contain myself any longer
Applebee's is all we have in death :(
I hate that the entire basis for the torturing is to find out what happens after death. Like what difference is it going to make? You can't change it, you can't do anything about it, and you're going to experience it either way.
Psychopaths don't use logic
I think with most psychopaths it's the opposite. They lack empathy.
@@MA-rx3ow empathy is not the opposite of logic, and they are not mutually exclusive though.
It kind of makes sense, like if you know there is no hell then you can do shitty things if believing in hell is the only thing that keep you from doing it
@@garynew9637 Psycopathy is a condition and it’s not the same for everyone. Please don’t misrepresent a condition you don’t understand.
There's something so depressing about how Anna's suffering was basically in vain since mademoiselle committed suicide before telling others what Anna saw
Why do you think she did it? Did she want to go to the afterlife or something?
@@DaMensch86 ya know its never answered but i feel like she heard some bad shit and she's just like "we're all fucked might as well off myself"
@@DaMensch86 I think it's a metaphor for sacrifice, like she needed to sacrifice something as Anna did so she could get redemption, and what she sacrificed was the information itself.
"Beware of unearned wisdom" - Carl Jung
To me, the reason MM kills herself is that she hasn't suffered to achieve the eternal wisdom, ascension, afterlife, nirvana w/e you want to call it, that Ana shows her a glimpse of. She believes that all she needs is to have the knowledge handed to her by people she makes suffer, but isn't willing to earn it through suffering herself. She's a cheat and an evil one at that. Because of this, the wisdom is useless to her and she knows it, so she kills herself, as her quest is fruitless. She will never be a martyr, as she simply isn't willing to go through the struggle to be one. Ana earned her wisdom through suffering, even if it was against her will. It's a beautiful ending, in my opinion
@@conc3d189 but that would assume that everyone has to suffer to "earn" the afterlife through suffering? Many ppl do not suffer like anna, in fact many billions of ppl have not suffered anything even close to what she went through. She not only suffered the physical torment, but also the over bearing emotional torment of her youth and violent lost love of her mates suicide. Thoughts?
I thought the worst part is the whole endless torture concept. when she was a child she saw a woman tortured to shit and when she is of age we find that same woman still alive living the worst kind of life.
Its so horrific that the moment she is free she immidiatly tries to kill herself. just to escape life.
That kinda fucked me up.
That's not the same woman. The hair color, the wounds and kind of torture is different. The cult kidnapped a lot of people to do these tortures.
I think the most cruel thing about this movie is when you realsise that Mademoiselle's death and her last word basically mean that the cullt will continue to search for their answer and that she was not the last one if there ever is a last one...
I thought the same thing.
You could also argue that her death propelled even further intrigue.
Anna: Oh dear this woman has a metal blindfold ATTACHED LIKE ACTUALLY ATTACHED to her face, should i CALL 911? Or use a frickin screwdriver to PRY IT OFFFF
Haha rivets go shlorp
@@hadriandwyer2191 lol
Bonk
Should I take her to a hospital where they can do it under anesthesia and minimize damage, or should I just brute force it off?
@@boblvr94 yeah she certainly wont bleed alooooooooottttttttt
I didn't even see this movie but now I feel like I need to watch many hours of cartoons to get some of my sanity back
Dude cartoons have some really messed up shit too tho...
@@lilyc.g.5567 I don't think peppa pig will traumatize me too much
@@emiliamarkkanen9423 nahh I’m talking about the good cartoons from the 90s/00s. “Wholesome” ones from later on are good for brain clearing. I’ve done it myself lol
lmaooo this happens everyday in cartels, I’ve watched so many fucked up things it’s crazy
Yeah, I don't want the seeds of evil taking root in my mind....
I cried during the breaking down of Anna’s humanity. Also, my interpretation of the ending is that no one truly knows what happens when we die. Through all the women, Anna was the only one to witness and share her account. Now they will continue as that lady in charge killed herself.
I watched this movie a few years back with a friend, and I remember the basics of it, but I truly cannot remember any specific scenes or how graphic they were. I know it was extremely graphic but I cannot remember anything beyond that. I think it was so hard to deal with that my mind just let it all disappear after it was over. After watching this, some details came back, but I am so thankful my brain was like, "nah we don't need this, let's remember that time your voice cracked in front of the entire school in 8th grade."
do you think this is the most scary movie you watched?
@@ryanknight4952 I don't really, in all honesty is wasn't a scary movie in the traditional sense to me. It was disturbing beyond belief, but I don't think I ever felt afraid, but constantly uneasy. There we certainly some suspenseful parts, but it didn't scare me the way most horror movies do. I think it may have just disturbed me so much that I compartmentalized it to try and cope with it.
I watched it today and unless my version was cut I don't really agree with others claiming it's more gory than Saw or Hostel, or even comparing it to a serbian film etc. Yes, the concept is scary, the suffering by the victims is well portayed but otherwise I found it to be a little mediocre not only from a blood & gore standpoint. Overall a pretty okayish, sometimes boring movie.
@@masterpwn3r hey what’s ur opinion on a Serbian film? What’s the most scary parts?
@@ryanknight4952 I dont really find it scary, just really really really disturbing
I have a small feeling that YMS wanted Elvis to suffer through a movie for his own entertainment
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Bro get out of EVERY comment section
Torture movies give me the worst feeling of hopelessness after watching them
That seems to be one of two audience reactions. Some viewers say "this is depressing, hard to watch, and depraved," and the others get hard from watching it and then try to excuse themselves by claiming that they're watching it for the story. Yeah, sure. And I bet people watched Last Tango in Paris for the cinematography and Saw for the character development lmfao.
@@hermionestranger4964 well said. I think torture movies and horror movies are completely separate. I've been watching horror movies since a young age. Not much scares me in movies other than torture. But ya, anyone who watches these movies alone and genuinely "likes" them, has some screws loose for sure.
@@hermionestranger4964 agree. I think there is some natural morbid fascination that most people have, including myself. But it doesn’t come close to the level of perversion you would need to enjoy movies like this. I do find more fantastical body horror like that of Junji Ito to be intriguing but, I find intentional torture and cruelty disgusting and deeply disturbing.
I can't deal with these kinds of movies at all even milder ones. Is just that they make me think a lot, and give me anxiety for someone's well being. If there's a person numb enough to come up with these ideas for movies, there's someone more fucked up out there that could or is already making them happen. And that mere thought desolates me, for my well being (cause life is just a lottery) and the posible victim that is passing through all this at this mere moment. All kinds of paranormal it's okay with me, but this is too real to entertain me...
@@nflores328 very well said. And to add onto that. It's something that you cant just get used to. Torture movies are not something that you can get desensitized to. It never feels normal
sane person: are you sure these girls aren't just dissociating or going insane from all the unspeakable agony you're putting them through?
these lunatics: no, they're divine beings 🤩
Elvis I couldn’t describe it better.
“Bruh”
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Not as bad as when squidwards random toenail appeared after having furniture dropped onto his foot
T-S -unami That's the most torturous thing I've ever had to see especially when the furniture foot torn his toe nail out makes you go crazy as if you're feeling squidward own pain . It actually works on your mind.
Please delete your comment,you are triggering PTSD in everyone passing by
@@soldadoryanbr7776 I would like to kindly refuse your offer
WHY !!!
that shit hurts just thinking about it...
My take on what she told Mademoiselle: Just the psychotic ramblings of someone who had all their cognitive faculties tortured out of them. Mademoiselle killed herself because she realised that her organisation wasn't a group of pioneers of the occult, just deranged old people afraid of death who'd been torturing women for no good reason.
I like this theory. It actually makes sense.
I want to believe in this theory simply because it makes me feel better. Lmao
Mademoiselle kills herself because she just discovered that there is life after death. Why does nobody realize this.
@@JoeZUGOOLA Nobody "realizes" this because it's not clear at all and inconsistent with her last words and the way she says them.
She’s deserves judgment- punished
This movie messed me up for weeks, i remember quiting popeyes because the silver kitchen reminded me of the lab she was in when she was soaking in the water after being flayed
Anna's fault for like chilling at that crib any longer than need be.
Facts
Like...call the cops and explain 😂
Aka more than 5 seconds
No, it's definitely not her fault. There is literally no sane reason why you should skin someone alive.
@@direcircumstances lol ya
Unfortunately, I have seen someone cut their forearms like that, in a vertical line The movie is realistic. The blood doesn't pour out immediatly.
Jesus
Omg
Oh my I hope you're fine now
thats fucked sorry you had to see that
Yeah, I've seen the same. It's hard to forget.
I'm getting anxiety from this review alone about this movie. There's no way in hell I'm watching this torture porn.
And that’s precisely what it is; torture porn.
It wasn't tortute porn? This was a Catholic movie.
@@yokaigypsy it definitely wasn't a xatholic movie lmao
Wolfy It definitely was a joke
@@wolfy4734 Hey Wolfy, Remember me?
This is a beautiful movie about redemption: I'm serious. There are three facts you need to focus on. 1. Midway through the movie, Anne is sorry she did not believe Lucie, who has now killed herself. 2. At the end of the movie, she is responsible for the death of the head of the organization that caused Lucie's suffering, and in doing so redeems herself. 3. The redemption is reinforced by showing us footage of the relationship between Anne and Lucie when they were kids. This is a story about unrequited love and redemption.
the organization will just keep killing people what do you mean
If I was a martyr, I wouldn't tell them what the I saw. Nah, you took my skin off I ain't telling you shit.
Bro... What if they like, throw you in a pool of acid. Like that one stage from MK. Jesus....
@@sw1rly801 if they throw me in the acid I still won't talk, if anything I'll be dead at that point because I imagine being skinned than thrown in a pool of acid after months of daily torture isn't exactly ideal conditions for the human body to survive in.
@@chriiiiis you obv dead but still bro. That shit would be too much
You loose your will you do anything, like Anna
@@miserj1 I'd lose my will to talk. Also I'd imagine that talking would hurt so I wouldn't say ✨shit✨
Your wife's reaction made this 50x worse. Just hearing her scream like that made me feel terrible
i for real thought those screams were coming from the movie, that’s how visceral they were
It’s a movie💀
3th6nn so? It’s still scary lmao that’s how it was designed
@@ethanalvin So because it's a movie the wife's terrified screaming isn't unsettling? Can't argue with that logic
@@jillianc7485 So did I, which is why it caught me off-guard when Elvis said that was his wife
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I like the thought that Anna didn’t tell her anything, she told her something incoherent or told her something like “you’ll never get to paradise, because you forced me to”. There’s something about the cult(?) being wholly excluded from the afterlife Anna saw brings a lil catharsis.
She talked to her for over 2 hours.
@@EdenFrost doesnt mean she told her anything of importance or substance. I wouldn’t want to say anything. Torture me and tell me to spill my guts i’m telling you just random bs from my pain and adrenaline blooded mind.
@@dudesinashoe7812 yeah I also agree with you. I’m not religious and even if I entertain the thought I don’t think that getting tortured by religious nuts gets you visions of heaven. She lost her mind ages ago and is just in delirium totally broken. Probably believing she saw heaven and told her some random bs and granny loved it or hated it we never know 😂
@@EdenFrost i know, and actually really like that we don’t get a concrete answer, but the thought of it being a final fuck you by being complete bs, or even better Anna just refusing to tell her (because i mean… already been flayed alive among a thousand other things, what else are you gonna do?) feels good in the same way that the MC of “I spit on your grave” going through her abusers in a bloody mess feels good
@@dudesinashoe7812 the thought yeah but I didn’t get a good feeling at all at the end. It was all just too much very disturbing. I didn’t need to see that 😂
I should have listened. I should have fricking listened.
You watched it? Right?
@@geonet3965 big mistake
@@yologod5512 gotcha... Is it of the "don't watch but you know you have to watch for it to give you a new perspective of the world" kind?
Or the "you'll lose your mind and soul if you watch it" kind?
@@geonet3965 i have nighmares kind
A moment of silence for our fallen comrade.
i cant even actually see anything, and still just hearing these desctiptions make me squirmish.. yikes.
I feel nauseous.🤢🤢
i literally feel my throat gagging on itself.
yep same, I can actually feel my stomach twisting without even seeing anything. never had that happen before with any other horror movie. thanks, I will skip this one lol
Horror films make me feel unsafe and depressed. I can only think about how things in these movies have happened to real people and how indescribably horrible the pain, terror, and trauma would be.
@@BrookeBaubles god so true. because you KNOW that in the past thousands of years of human history, anything must’ve happened one too many times
“It’s all uphill from here”
They then skin her alive
Your Profile picture... Is this a white Obama?
@@pumpkinlord1117 that’s my I.D photo
"This is when the fun begins" my only reaction was HOW TF DOES IT ESCALATE?!!!! I mean to my knowlege Elvis doesnt watch rated X movies....
Ok well... time to play animal crossing: new horizons.
Honestly I would prefer Doom Eternal after this. After the initial fear, disgust and empathy, I feel a strong anger and even hatred towards the bad guys. Like I want to purge them from the face of the earth, out of pure fear. I guess it's true what they say about fear leading to hate huh
What's in Nook's basement....
@@viktorthevictor6240 not fear,because people get played and cant do anything about..
People ruin Animal Crossing.
Martyrs Crossing: Afterlife's Horizon
AN ADAM AND EVE SPONSOR FOR A VIDEO ON MARTYR WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY TO ME
I don't think many people visited the bdsm section after this video...
Here from Tumblr, I assume?
90 day return policy for butt plugs? Who works in customer support?
Use them while watching the movie
@@ChicoEscuela they probably get some weird returns
Once when I was 15, I asked my Dad if he knew of a good horror movie to watch. He casually said, “Martyrs, it’s pretty good.” So I sat down with a friend & yea, we were surprised
Your dad must hate you.
@@soundskindagay2709 no, he just wanted to surprise us. We’re all horror buffs. I liked the movie
@@dominicross6959 oh ok then
@@dominicross6959 Cheers to your father
@@dominicross6959 ur dad seems cool
I first heard about this movie in 2013. I could not watch it.... I was too afraid. Until yesterday, that I finally did. I created an IMDB account, just to give it a nine. An then changing it into a ten, after thinking about it the entire night.
I don't remember the last time that a movie affected me this much. I don't know if it's a work of art, or if the timing was right.
Amazing effects. Great acting. The ending is... well, you know!!!
Greeting from Greece!
this is really disturbing. not scary, just disturbing. not as much as human centipede but not too far away
I dunno. Tusk was really fucked.
Well I know this movie......... yeah I forgot that i got bored there maby the German version is just boring but I dunno can vaguely remember this arm cut scene but yeah, have seen worse stuff.
This isn't actual horror. It's just torture porn. Made to disturb you
@@fenrirswolh3 tusk wasn’t that bad
@@cleoissoamazimg1627 jojo reference?1!?1!1!
You know a movie is horrific when one of the tagline is "it makes saw look like sesame street", SAW, a movie known for its brutal and tortureous scenes, i respect you guys for actually watching the movie and i hope it didnt give any long term damage to any of you guys, i would have turn of the tv after the first 6 minutes.
I remember when i was 13 and im like its just gore its not scary. But aftrr watching it i am scarred now
I try to convince my self the visual effects in this movie are fake, but its so realistic that i seriously wouldnt be suprise if they actually kidnap someone and held them hostage for this movie. After i watched the movie after the video (out of curiousity), i regret every second that i spend watching that movie, i recommend that you dont watch this movie, unless you have balls of steel.
This movie was shitty
If it says it's "worse than saw" than that's the point and it probably has no value.
Good thing it does have value
Tbh geralds games hand gore scene is harder to watch than this movies hand gore scene
Me too
when they meant ''makes 'Saw' look like Sesame Street'' they meant it. it even makes Halloween look like the Wizard of Oz
Nah bro more like the chipmunks
Halloween was never scary though. It’s way more of a thriller than horror
More like makes the wizard of oz look like Halloween
Yeah I used to complain that The Handmaid's Tale was depressing because of how the women are treated. This one was something else.
It makes Megan is missing look like the croods
martyrs had me really shocked and disgusted right after watching but with time it became one of the best horror movies I’ve ever watched and I’m considering watching it again
You are sick. Get help.
Spoiler: My thoughts on the ending of the movie
"Beware of unearned wisdom" - Carl Jung
To me, the reason MM kills herself is that she hasn't suffered to achieve the eternal wisdom, ascension, afterlife, nirvana w/e you want to call it, that Ana shows her a glimpse of. She believes that all she needs is to have the knowledge handed to her by people she makes suffer, but isn't willing to earn it through suffering herself. She's a cheat and an evil one at that. Because of this, the wisdom is useless to her and she knows it, so she kills herself, as her quest is fruitless. She will never be a martyr, as she simply isn't willing to go through the struggle to be one. Ana earned her wisdom through suffering, even if it was against her will. It's a beautiful ending, in my opinion
What a failure. She just made a cult, tortured girls, and then she acts surprised like she didn't know how to achieve this wisdom? You wanna know the worst thing of this all? She's so similar to my aunt... God help me
I feel like the ending is more intentionally ambiguous. To me, it boils down to:
1. She saw something so amazing she had to die immediately and get there.
2. She saw nothing whatsoever and has realized her quest is in vain.
3. She saw something that she learned she can never attain given her life choices (sort of what you suggested).
I do agree that the ending is beautiful, though.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory I would add a fourth one:
4- She saw something so horrible and bleak that it broke her mind, similar to what she did to all those girls.
@@at5203 Good call!
You're digging too deep into this shit movie
What im confused about is how do they know that this "Martyrdom" is real? How do they know its not just the person hallucinating because they are LITERALLY tortured psychologically and physically to the max?
I think that's the point, they're all a bunch of deluded psychopaths that think that extreme suffering and pain somehow result in mystic powers rather than the obvious result of psychosis and then death.
What I'm confused about is people actually still into MLP in 2022
Cultists are not exactly a rational bunch.
Its a cult so go figure
If they're deranged enough to go through with the procedure in the first place, a logical oversight like that isn't too ridiculous for them, right?
So apparently, according to the director? Or someone that broke down the movie, the reason the one lady got the metal visor was that she DID fail. You either fail and then they "punish" you for the rest of your life, or you succeed and you "Martyr" and I guess die? Since we don't see the other girls...ever.
She got the metal visor as a way to block her vision permanently. Due to the extreme torture she would hallucinate bugs crawling on her skin. After Anna removes the metal visor there's a scene where the lady is scraping her own skin off of her arm with a big kitchen knife. Mademoiselle explains this to Anna during that talk.
@@essie. um you're KINDOF correct- you're getting a few of the facts from the movie all fucked up, and I'm not gonna sit here and type out every little detail -.-
You guys, just go watch it again
@@laynedoe3455 im too pussy to watch the movie, but im still hella curious. pls do share the details
@@d-lars just like the girl that killed herself with the knife, that other girl was also allucinating things, in this case, bugs all over her body, that's why she had that metal thing in from of her eyes, to not see them and keep harming herself. That's all you gotta know, I dunno where they got the thought of the director saying that girl failed at being a martyr
What's worst is that in real history, you easily find stuff that's much more disturbing, and still would be even if it were fiction.
LIKE WHAT
@@GNICHO Are you serious right now? really? google the atrocities of the assyrian king ashurbanipal, or find out what vlad the impaler actually did, look into the various methods of ritualistic sacrifice the aztecs had, or just 'medieval torture device' and you'll get your answer.
@@GNICHOSpanish inquisition was pretty fucked up
@@GNICHO Unit 731. Also I'd argue painlessly killing tens of millions is MUCH worse than torturing a few people to death.
I watched this movie for Sardonicast and basically had the same reaction as you. This is probably the only movie where I'd tell people "this is a great movie, don't watch it!" Also for the ending, I think Mademoiselle decided that what comes after death is better than living and she wanted to get there as fast as possible.
Why did she look so sad then? Wouldn't she be carefee, excited, happy? And why wait til later, why not right after hearing the answer of it was that good?
This is a great film but I fukin hate it
@@mikaylaswansong2204 also it would make no difference to tell the others what she saw before killing herself.
Hearing about this film makes me think death would be a nice alternative to being alive right now as well.
Never seen it never gonna see it, but already see a logic flaw unless its pointed out. Assuming they’re religious talking about an afterlife, so isn’t it pretty stupid to torture people which pretty much guarantees a ticket to hell including all the rich people who paid for it?
It is not a Halloween movie. It is not even "scary". It is extremely disturbing...
Yeah modern horror movies are either filled with jumpscares or it's just torture porn
@@AB-bg7os except this is not a modern movie
@@EaZyForMonkeys 2006 is still modern times.
There's no such thing as "torture porn" idiot and martyrs is not it.
Me watching Horror movie from 2000: i will have nightmares after this
Me watching Horror movie from 2020: KILL ME BRING SOME BLEACH AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
They actually do explain why the woman had the metal thing covering her eyes. She was hallucinating just like Lucie was, she saw bugs crawling all over her skin and when she was cutting her hand and rubbing her head against the wall, she was trying to get rid of the imaginary itch that she was experiencing. I have watched Martyrs (2008) multiple times and in my honest opinion it's one of the best horror movies there are, i like the theme and the actors do a really good job in their roles. Cheers and happy Halloween.
I agree, it's one of the only films to actually scare me....and then the concept itself, wow.
Imagine having that imaginary itch at all times but being chained makes unable to even do anything about it. This girl went through so much ;-;
Where can i find this movie.
Word!
“I have watched Martyrs (2008) multiple times”
...But why?
Wow, i watched it as a kid, i forgot about it.
Now you bring Trauma back
WTF why would you?!
@@xiesie_xiesie it was on free TV at 10 o'clock pm idk just watched it as a kid my mom was on nightshift i remember.
@@pottracer3637 oooh... still I'm sorry for you
Exactly same case on me 🥲@@pottracer3637
Or maybe Mammoiselle found out the afterlife was so awesome that she couldn't wait to get there?
Cyborg Gerbil I've seen you saying the same thing a lotta times
@Cyborg Gerbil That doesn't make sense. If you know you're going to hell, you probably won't try and expedite that process. And why Jesus ? Why not Seth waiting with a weight to check her hearth ? Or Hades ? Or the flying spaghetti monster ?
@@artur6912 beacsue she destined for it anyway why bother trying to avoid it
I do not accept the possibility that everyone in this movie's universe goes to Heaven, or the good part of the afterlife or whatever. Mademoiselle probably thought she'd go there, but ended up in the same torture she put others through. Also why near-death by torture? There are other ways to almost kill someone & keep them at the verge of life and death. The torture factor isn't obligatory. The fact that some folks just wanna see people gag..
I didn't understand the ending at all. What can she achieve through suicide? In Christian beliefs it's a ticket to hell. In Muslim beliefs as well. As far as I know there is nothing like hell in the Jewish belief. Buddhists actually believe that the final end of existence is nirvana, because after endless reincarnations it will be the ultimate absence of suffering. But that mademoiselle wouldn't have lived her life according to the Buddhist virtues. So it would only make sense according to Jewish belief? Well I actually don't have a clue if that is reasonable, because I don't know the Talmud. And addressing only Jewish people would also be somewhat strange. Therefore it's probably just a fantasy ending just like in Catacombs (SPOILER) where everything's upside down in the end. I just want to say that exactly these two movies made me loose interest in horror movies. Martyrs was only disgusting and Catacombs was simply boring. The best one I saw lately was Dr. Sleep but that mostly because I'm a Stephen King addict. 😅
The whole transcending thing is reminiscent of what they do in deadpool where they put someone really close to death until they like mutate except this is much more violent.
I think i would rather be in the mutant program then whatever the hell i just watched.
I liked your comment for the first bit, but I don’t really agree with the second half. I’d say being deprived of oxygen would be better than being skinned alive
@@TH-cam5vck5 Yeah I meant this movie is the more violent of the two
"The scene is so realistic"
*Shows a 100kg man flying 3 meters backwards from a shotgun blast*
You doesn't have a super duper shotgun that makes people fly?
That’ll do her
My thoughts exactly lmao
Super
Super Shell
Knockback
Very Long
graves from league of legends wants his shotgun back.... seriously... that thing can shove a stone golem about two feet back with a single blast.
The use of the metal blindfold was explained in the movie. That girl was seeing roaches or bugs creeping all over her body. The woman who shot her said it. 😆
Martyrs: amazing, fantastic. 10/10, don’t watch it.
Yeah, seriously, it's a perfect film, but not one I could ever recommend.
Definitely gonna watch it now lol
I watched it and loved it. Im a huge gore fan so it didn't bother me.
Yeah, don't. It is right up there with the most depressing horrific movies I've ever seen. My ex-boyfriend put it on and I never would have chosen it. Anyway my other least favorite movie as far as content, well as far as everything, is AI.
@@erinshann3055 holy yikes, what kind of BF thinks this a good thing to share with people, much less his girlfriend? Uh... I hope your relationship ended amicably because this is a weird film to share with your loved one at random.