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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:

Pascal Laugier

Writer:

Pascal Laugier (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

3 September 2008 (France) more

Genre:

Drama | Horror more

Tagline:

They did not finish to be alive...

Plot:

A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity. full summary | full synopsis

Awards:

3 wins more

NewsDesk:
(124 articles)

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User Comments:

Brave, brilliant, brutal... more (146 total)


Cast

  (in credits order)
Morjana Alaoui ... Anna

Mylène Jampanoï ... Lucie
Catherine Bégin ... Mademoiselle
Robert Toupin ... Le père
Patricia Tulasne ... La mère
Juliette Gosselin ... Marie
Xavier Dolan ... Antoine (as Xavier Dolan-Tadros)
Isabelle Chasse ... La Créature

Emilie Miskdjian ... La Suppliciée

Mike Chute ... Homme / Bourreau

Gaëlle Cohen ... Femme de main
Anie Pascale ... La femme
Jessie Pham ... Lucie Jeune
Erika Scott ... Anna Jeune
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hervé Desbois ... Orderly
Philippe Laugler ... Inspector
Louis Thevenon ... Homme de main
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Directed by
Pascal Laugier 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Pascal Laugier  writer

Produced by
Frédéric Doniguian .... executive producer
Marcel Giroux .... executive producer
Richard Grandpierre .... producer
Simon Trottier .... producer
 
Original Music by
Alex Cortés 
Willie Cortés 
 
Cinematography by
Stéphane Martin 
Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky 
 
Film Editing by
Sébastien Prangère 
 
Casting by
Helene Rousse 
 
Production Design by
Jean-Andre Carriere 
 
Makeup Department
Benoît Lestang .... special makeup effects artist
 
Production Management
Daniel Langlois .... unit manager
Doris Yoba .... post-production supervisor
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Nadine Brassard .... second assistant director
Carl Roméo Desjardins .... first assistant director
 
Art Department
Yves Fontigny .... property master
Asuka Sugiyama .... art department coordinator
 
Sound Department
Nicolas Becker .... foley artist
Germain Boulay .... supervising sound editor
Philippe Mercier .... sound mixer
Serge Rouquairol .... sound editor
Julien Sicart .... additional sound
Steven Utt .... sound editor
Jérôme Wiciak .... adr mixer
Jérôme Wiciak .... foley mixer
Jérôme Wiciak .... sound re-recording mixer
 
Special Effects by
Carmelle Beaudoin .... special effects technician
Kevin Carter .... special effects contact lenses
Jacques Godbout .... special effects supervisor
 
Visual Effects by
Eric Aubry .... digital effects artist
Marie-Eve Bedard-Tremblay .... visual effects coordinator
Benoit Blouin .... digital effects artist
Francois Croteau .... digital effects artist
Daniel Gaudreau .... digital compositor
Jonathan Laborde .... digital effects artist
Bruno-Olivier Laflamme .... digital effects artist
Jean-Francois Lafleur .... digital effects artist
Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput .... visual effects supervisor
Laurent Spillemaecker .... digital compositor: Buzzimage
Emily Vaillancourt .... visual effects
Yanick Wilisky .... visual effects producer: Buzz Image Group
 
Stunts
Alain Bérard .... stunt double
Gaëlle Cohen .... stunt coordinator
Nathalie Girard .... stunt double
Stéphane Lefebvre .... assistant stunt coordinator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Jean-François Dasylva-LaRue .... lighting technician
Alexandre Léglise .... focus puller: re-shoot
Geoffroy St-Hilaire .... steadicam operator: "b" camera
Jean-Francois Tousignant .... first assistant camera
Jean-Francois Tousignant .... second assistant camera
 
Editorial Department
Denis Bedlow .... assistant editor
Johan Boulanger .... assistant editor
Ornella Del-Vecchio .... digital conformation
Frederic Jupin .... digital conformation
Trevor White .... colorist: Technicolor Toronto
 
Transportation Department
Richard Chabot .... unit driver
 
Other crew
Kook Ewo .... title sequence by
Sophie Lebeau .... assistant accountant
Pierre Selinger .... production attorney
Joe Sisto .... legal services
Lucio Tomaro .... location manager
 
Thanks
Dario Argento .... dedicatee
Karim Hussain .... thanks
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Iskence odasi (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Marttyyrit (Finland) [fi]
Martyres (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Martyrs (Japan: English title) [en]
Martyrs: Skazani na strach (Poland) [pl]
Mucednici (Czech Republic) (festival title) [cs]
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MPAA:

Rated R for disturbing/severe aberrant behavior involving strong bloody violence, torture, child abuse and some nudity.

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

France | Canada

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Certification:

France:-16 (re-rating on appeal) (with warning) | France:-18 (original rating) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) | Finland:K-18 (self applied) | Germany:18 (SPIO/JK) (uncut) | UK:18 | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Australia:R | USA:R (edited version) | Netherlands:16 | USA:Unrated (uncut) | Italy:VM18 | South Korea:18 | New Zealand:R18

Filming Locations:

Québec, Canada

Company:

Canal Horizons more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

In Pascal Laugier's previous film Saint Ange (2004), the main character is called Anna Jurin. In Martyrs, Anna is one of the female leads' character names, whilst Lucie Jurin is the other. more

Movie Connections:

Featured in Viande d'origine française (2009) more

Soundtrack:

My Neighbourhood more


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73 out of 103 people found the following comment useful.
Brave, brilliant, brutal..., 12 September 2008
9/10
Author: rogergeorge from United Kingdom

Having missed the opportunity to catch this at the Midnight Madness showing in TIFF08, I decided to go against all stated horror movie rules and watched this today around midday at a complex in downtown Toronto.. It's difficult to know what to say about this movie really; like a birth or a death, you really have to experience it yourself and draw your own conclusions. What I will say is that as a committed horror freak, rare is the occasion when I tense up and watch a film contorted, somehow trying to protect myself from what I'm putting myself through.. It contains enough tough to see horror/gore to satisfy the bloodhounds (though it doesn't feel like another attempt to up the gore ante for the sake of it, thankfully) and then - if you can watch it and many couldn't - transcends the genre totally with a jaw-dropping final act which if you're interested in the human condition and the capacity for seemingly normal people to do incredibly bad things will have you asking questions for some time to come and recognising that when horror and ideas mesh successfully, the result can be breathtaking. Absolutely not enjoyable but there again if you go to see a horror flick at a film festival and you know beforehand that it originally received an X-certificate in France, kicking up an almighty stink in the process - well, you know that an open mind is the least you can bring to bear. With that in mind I would recommend Martyrs as a film of incredible tension, harrowing physical violence and indelible imagery; unsurprisingly, the director name-checked Dario Argento during the Q&A as a major influence in his youth and there is a clear and confident signature in the work which suggests some parallels can be made between the two film-makers. I loved this movie and for those who have already posted comments good, bad or indifferent (and I really can't imagine a neutral response!) I hope like myself you have come away with a genuine sense of having seen something the like of which we are unlikely to see for some time..

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