Martyrs

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Martyrs is a French mystery-horror film written and directed by Pascal Laugier. It is Laugier's second feature film following Saint Ange (House of Voices). It was first screened during the 2008 Cannes Film Festival at the Marché du Film. The film was released in France publicly on September 3, 2008. The US rights for Martyrs was bought by the Weinstein Company, who will release the film on DVD and Blu-Ray in early 2009.

==Plot== BEWARE - SPOILERS ARE EVERYWHERE FOR THIS FILM (INCLUDING BELOW) France. A night at the beginning of the 1970s. Lucie, a little girl missing for over a year, is discovered wandering by the side of a country road. Near catatonic, she can say nothing about what has happened to her. The police quickly find the place in which she's been incarcerated - a disused slaughterhouse. Every indication is that she never once left the empty, freezing room in which she was imprisoned. Filthy, starving, dehydrated, the child's body nonetheless bears no traces of sexual abuse - this was no pedophile abduction, but something far stranger. What happened in that icy room? And how did Lucie escape?

After Lucie escapes, she is put into an orphanage where she befriends Anna. Years later, Lucie busts into the home of a family of four, a man, his wife and their teenage children. Lucie kills them all with a shotgun, but is followed and attacked by a creature.


Directed by Pascal Laugier
Written by Pascal Laugier
Starring
Morjana Alaoui
Mylène Jampanoï
Distributed by
Canal Horizons (France)
Dimension Extreme (US)
Release dates
France September 3, 2008
United States February 24, 2009 (DVD)
Running time 97 mins.
Language French
Budget €2.8 million (US$4.36 million)


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[josh.sadler]

I would rate it "French" if I could.