Tribute To The Martyrs - Steel Pulse

TO BE OR NOT TO BE A MARTYR?

Advantages: Very well paced, with good acting, visually entertaining, ends with questions of morality/ethnics
Disadvantages: too gruesome for some people?

This is perhaps one of the most confusing horror film I've come across in months and there's so many ways I could interpret the rather frustrating ending. It is not a film where you can get sastisfaction from. This is a French horror film that has revived my interest in the genre again; it was released recently this year. It is one of the most darkest films I have ever seen coming from the country in a while. It starts with several disjointed scenes, directed in a cheap 70's camera style, clearly depicting the escape of a kidnapped girl with shaven head and scars all over her body. This is where we begin to conclude she has been through such horrors; she is taken away by authorities and put into a home. It is then evident she would never begin to recover from the ordeal completely and makes a friend for life in the home. 15 years later ...

Annallon 17.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Martyrs (DVD)

Are you a Martyr or a victim?

Advantages: Performances, camerawork, script, violence.
Disadvantages: Somewhat depressing

For those that enjoy the horror genre, Hollywood has given little other than disappointing, predictable films. French cinema in recent years has far exceeded Hollywood in this genre and Martyrs is the most recent example of this. The film is likely to be difficult to watch even for horror fans because Martyrs isn't simply a cut and slash horror film. It's a mixture of horror and psychological thriller on a level never seen before. The plot centres around two women, Lucie and Anna, who met as children in an orphanage. Lucie arrived there after being found by police in a dishevelled state showing clear signs of abuse. How and why Anna arrived there is not explained. The two form a tight bond in the orphanage which is shown for a few minutes at the beginning of the film. Anna takes on a motherly role and cares for the clearly mentally ...

CloudRuler 14.08.2009 (16.08.2009) · Read full review
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Review of Martyrs (DVD)

IT'S RUMOURED TO BE A TRIBUTE

Advantages: Recognisable tunes
Disadvantages: Neither fish nor foul. Best stick to the original

I was prompted to shake the dust off a neglected corner of my record collection by a review posted by Nar recently. "The True Legacy of a Legendary Musical Divorce?" is about the Album "Legacy, a Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours" - a CD of cover versions of the songs from the classic Mac album 'Rumours' released in 1977. Nar also said that he was '?forever on the look out for new versions and covers of songs by leading artists known and unknown.'. For completeness then, here is one for his collection and maybe one which may have escaped your attention the first time around. The String Quartet Tribute's declared aim is to concentrate on one well known performer or group at a time and produce classical (instrumental) versions of the songs 'note for note'. Some albums are compendiums of the original's more well known titles; others, as ...

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