Martyrs is something of a horror milestone-a dire one to some, but a movie to be reckoned with all the same.

| Oct 19, 2018

Martyrs has an intelligence and a dogged determination to do and to say what its predecessors could or would not.

| Oct 19, 2018

it turns out to be concerned precisely with the nature and reception of extremity, posing uncomfortable questions about what it is that one really seeks in choosing to 'witness' scenes of horrific human abjection.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2010

The air of pretentiousness and the whiff of lesbian chic suggest that the bunch of nihilists who produced this garbage will claim something for it. All it really demonstrates is that there is something seriously rotten in the state of France.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 31, 2009

It will most definitely divide audiences, having already done so all over the world. But Laugier has contributed a brave, brutal and original horror film for all to witness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2009

The stylishly mounted first half zips along at a rate of knots while the gruesome make-up work will keep your gag reflex in violent spasm.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Mar 27, 2009

Martyrs is an unforgettable (not necessarily a good thing) endurance test of a movie that provides a quasi-philosophical spin on the torture porn genre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2009

You may well feel in need of a shower after sitting through Martyrs, a slick essay in Gallic torture porn.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 27, 2009

Young women are brutalised to a place beyond pain, as part of an eschatological experiment. You really don't need to see this.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 27, 2009

Film should score OK with hardcore gore fans, but others will expect martyrdom for sticking it out until the end.

| Sep 10, 2008