Martyrs

Really? Sounds more interesting that the assembly's I used to have, I mean seriously...who gives a damn about a geography teachers summer dress other than the teacher themself!

No Geography teachers did an assembly in all my school life, so I didn't have to suffer summer dresses like you, while stuck in uniform...

Yes...the good 'ol days....I remember the only good part was someone wolf whistling at her

We better get back onto topic!

For those interested, if you liked the score music, a few weeks ago the whole score was made avaliable for a legal free download, don't know if it's still up but you should be able to link to it from the official film websites or horror news sites. It's worth having, it's burnt nicely onto CD and now in my collection, yay.

I saw this movie while back, and I cannot recall all the details of it, however, I did find this whole movie profoundly disturbing - nothing to do with torture, but rather the idea behind it.

Try the film The Nameless, from the director of [REC], goes in the same sort of direction of trying to get to ecstasy and so on but the film doesn't contain so much of the violence/gore as Martyrs.

Oo, I was reading one of my film magazines today and it had a Martyrs review in it and it contained some interesting comments on the film for those on here interested, just thought I'd share for those who haven't read the magazine Sight & Sound. Just the stuff I highlighted:

Most Horror films fixate on the body these days, but Martyrs is equally concerned with the suffering of the mind trapped in the bleeding flesh.

The subject of confinement and torture echos several recent real life atrocities(Marc Dutroux, Josef Fritzl and, with its religious extremism, the Mauerova family/'Grail Movement' case).

It does so, however, in a resolutely unexploitative way; sexual abuse is not involved, and the camera observes events without teasing prurience common in the genre.

Though philiosophically more aligned with Ken Russell's Altered States, which strives to visualise a metaphysical state onscreen. And for those who regard the idea of Transfiguration as just so much mumbo jumbo, the film's provocative climax allows for a highly satisfying existential reading too. Martyrs feels closer to Japanese or Italian Horror than to the Hostel/Saw axis, and the frenzied performance of Jampanoi frequently recalls Isabelle Adjani in the most convulsive of Euro Art-Horrors, Andrzej Zulawski's Possession.

His wording of part of the plot:

Spoiler:
The sect is obsessed with learning the secrets of the afterlife through the creation of martyrs, individuals pushed to states of transfiguration through extreme suffering. Anna undergoes systematic cruelty and deprivation until she reaches what her captors regard as a state of holy ecstasy.

Sorry if any mistakes, typed it out really fast.

Possession: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082933/

Altered States: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/

I don't think anyone cares about Martyrs that much. Just you.

Its very disturbing knowing a girl likes movies like this...

I believe she counts as somebody.

I care, it's an interesting piece she posted.

Deathbycorn - If you are not interested and only have negative things to say, why bother to keep posting in a topic about a film you didn't like...

Because I like stirring you up.

Then that is trolling and against the rules. So stop doing it.

I believe she counts as somebody.

I car, it's an interesting piece she posted.

Glad you liked it. 🙂

Originally posted by BackFire
Then that is trolling and against the rules. So stop doing it.

You are a troll. Get over it buddy, its the internet. There are no rules.

Originally posted by deathbycorn
You are a troll. Get over it buddy, its the internet. There are no rules.

You must not have seen Backfire's warning. There are rules here, and baiting others in this manner and ignoring moderator warnings are among them. Consider this your official warning, which I'll reiterate in PM's.

Has anyone seen the two films I linked to? I've yet to see either. Possession looks like one that will be brilliant.

Deathbycorn - You're gone.

MP, I haven't seen them either. They do both look very good. More to add to Netflix.

Aww I'll never find out if he enjoyed The Strain............

I've added the films to my rental list too.

You can find out in 7 days when he comes back.

Watched this today. I get the feeling it was the heavily cut version. Not really what I was expecting at all. I never connected with the characters so didn't really give a shit what was happening to Anna.

Clearly a film of 2 halves...the 1st was pacy and gripping and brutal...The 2nd was, for me, boring.