Martyrs 4K 2008 Ultra HD 2160p

Raised in an orphanage, Lucy managed to escape from the clutches of the villains who had tormented her for many days. Fifteen years later, she broke into the house where a seemingly normal family lived and killed everyone, claiming that they were the ones responsible for her suffering. To get rid of the bodies, she called her friend Anna, with whom she had grown up in the orphanage. For Anna, this marks the beginning of a nightmarish journey into the epicenter of violence and madness.

User Review

I watched this movie about a month ago. I was in the mood for a horror movie, so I sat down to watch it. Please understand me correctly—by horror movies, I mean Nightmare on Elm Street and all those Jeepers Creepers movies. And I love Stephen King movies and miniseries. I did watch Hostel once, but without much effort, I managed to get it out of my head. Well, almost out of my head... But it doesn't interfere with my life. Martyrs, on the other hand, does. Very much so. Intensely. I often see a bathtub filled with saline solution in which someone is submerged...

I was foolish when I decided to test my strength and watch this film to the end. I wanted to find out about myself — could I endure it... I found out. I endured it — without stopping, without screaming, ordering myself not to close my eyes — for the sake of the experiment. So what did I prove? I proved that I can no longer live a normal life. No, I didn't develop paranoia, and I no longer have nightmares. But real life has become... painful at times. The first few days were unbearable — I couldn't think about anything else. The plot replayed in my head, I remembered individual episodes—I tried to fight it, but failed completely... Then it got easier, I was happy—naive—and decided that life goes on. And... after a week or so, I realized I was wrong.

IT doesn't let go, it doesn't let you live normally, at any moment, most often unexpectedly—it pops up like a jack-in-the-box. The only thing you can do is get used to it—it's just unexpected. Unlike the memories of this film. They no longer scare me, no longer make me shake my head with all my might, like a Newfoundland dog shaking off water. They just slowly poison me from within.

I know it's my own fault... I was expecting something, perhaps similar to Seven, and when it turned out that there was no police investigation here, I was free to close the file. But I didn't. And now I'm paying for it. My psyche is strong enough that I will suffer for a long time. All that remains is a vague hope for a car accident and amnesia. I am ready to sacrifice many happy memories, just so that these cursed ones, of which I have become a victim, will disappear with them.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (92.2 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Info Audio

#French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#English: Dolby Digital 1.0 (Commentary by film festival programmer/film scholar Nia Edwards-Behi)
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by film historian Dr. Lindsay Hallam)

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