Horrific enough to make such recent Gallic experiments in terror as Inside and Frontière(s) seem like Jacques Tati movies, Martyrs is already being touted as a new extreme for the genre. That director Pascal Laugier doesn’t really deliver the hard stuff until well after a family’s massacre by shotgun is but one indication that he’s playing for keeps. Yet there proves to be an unusually thoughtful methodology behind the mayhem once Martyrs’ true premise is revealed. Some viewers will have had more than enough of Laugier’s very bloody brand of cruelty by the time that happens. 

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