Martyrs (2008)
Directed by Pascal Laugier
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
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It's not quite as gore-soaked as, say, "Martyrs," but it has the same kind of attitude.
…channeling the existential nihilism of French New Extremity works like Martyrs to explore just how unhealthy it is to process death at such a surface level…
In this way “Get Out” is strangely parallel to 2009’s controversial, gory “Martyrs,” a French horror film about a villainous group’s search for a vision of transcendence.
What emerges is more or less akin to the torture porn tendencies of Hostel (2005), or Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs (2008), which infamously depicts a group of bored elitists who mercilessly torture people in order to witness the ultimate ascension to martyrdom.
The grim nature of bodily dedication, the sacrifice that comes with athleticism, is almost beautiful, until it’s not as bodies contort like something out of Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs .
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It’s a category that could encompass features as diverse as Martyrs (2008), Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), Sound of My Voice (2011), The Sacrament (2013), and The Invitation (2016).
Subtler allusions abound to The Shining (1980), The Lost Boys (1987), Funny Games (1997), The Sixth Sense (1999), and “New French Extremity” landmarks like Inside (2007) and Martyrs (2008).
From 2007's " Them " to 2008's " Martyrs " and " The Strangers " to 2011's " Kidnapped " to 2013's " The Purge " and " You're Next ," there has been no deficiency in these kinds of stories in recent years.
Porque, claramente, Fede Álvarez toma, como punto de partida, las películas de invasión de hogar que se remontan hasta Dial M for Murder de Alfred Hitchcock en 1954 hasta las dos joyas de Michael Haneke con Funny Games (1997, 2008, pasando por esas bellezas de violencia extrema como Last House on the Left (1972), I Spit in your Grave (1978), Straw Dogs (1971), Cape Fear (1962, 1991), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Ils (2006), Martyrs (2008) y, más recientemente, The Purge (2013).