Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Michael Ledo Lucy (Troian Bellisario) claims she was tortured as a child (how she escaped is still a mystery) and sees monsters that haunt her. She becomes BFF with Anna (Bailey Noble) who, like the audience, doesn't know what to believe.PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD. Ten years later Lucy, somehow out of the blue, finds the couple that tortured her and blows the entire family away with a shotgun...pretty cool stuff. Then the story turns weird as Anna reluctantly goes and helps Lucy clean-up. The weird was pretty good and then we find out what it was all about: People who die with their eyes open (see cover). I prayed..."Please God, don't have the film be this stupid." Nope. It was. People who died with their freaking eyes open. I believe I would have loved the story more had it been for some DNA mutant experiment instead. Nope. Talkative people who die with their eyes open.Guide: No sex or nudity. 1 F-word as I recall. Blood, torture, graphic skin removal scene that made me cringe.

Peter Lorme Martyrs (2016) is yet another pointless remake that is completely inferior to the original. Have you ever heard one of those trashy Kidz Bop covers of a pretty good song? This remake is like a Kidz Bop version of a heavy-metal song. The entire movie just put a foul stench in my mouth. It is neutered down to its core. There isn't anything disturbing, horrifying, or shocking like there was in the original. Hell, there isn't even a lot of blood in this one. It's hard to just simply describe how horrible it is, so I'll just use another analogy. Let's say the class genius is taking a test, right? So the big class goofball decides to sit down next to him and cheat off his test. He copies most of the test, but then there's the essay section. The smart kid is moving along with it, writing in his own unique way. The catch is that he writes really fast. So the dumbo has to quickly copy down everything he's writing. After they finish, the smart kid has a pretty good essay but it's not his best work. The noodlehead kid has an incomprehensible copy of the smart kid's essay, so much so that sentences are out of order, and the essay prompt isn't even answered. Even if you take the original out of the equation and call this remake an original movie, it's still garbage. One of the saddest attempts at a remake I have ever seen.

stivan-amed Unlike most others, I welcome horror movie remakes. I know that most end up being trash. But there are the few that end up being decent horror movies in their own merit. Yes, I'm a fan of the original 2008 French film Martyrs. I mean I really loved the intense raw terror of the original mixed. But like most have said, it wasn't just about the terror. It had deep meaning. Which is why it has become one of the biggest horror cult classics of the past 20 years. So when I heard that they were making an American remake, I was honestly excited. The producers promised to keep the intensity of the original. This announcement was way back in 2010. So you can imagine I've been waiting nearly 6 years for this. Now the film is finally here. I will admit that the trailer for the film released online made it look very mediocre. And I knew that most other fans of the original would trash the film relentlessly regardless of its true value. It is hard to not compare this to the original. The critics reviews seem implausible too. I guess I'm the rare fan of the original that actually liked it.

glyptoteque "Horror" for feeble-minded, vegetarian children. That is what this hollower-than-thou exercise in redundancy is. The funny thing is that the absolutely worthless directors behind this abomination calls this a re-imagining and not a remake. Let's face it, even though it's not a shot-by-shot remake, it still reeks to high heaven with the stink of remake all over it. But hey, by all means, call it a re-imagining instead and see if replacing a word with another actually makes any difference at all. Yeah, if you "reimagine", it almost sounds like you have genuine artistic vision and integrity. What a joke. The really sad thing is that this feeble filth would never have been made in the first place if Pascal Laugier hadn't had a momentary lapse of reason. Instead he decided in an absolute fit of ( greedy? ) insanity that his pearly vision of wounds and nothingness should be fondled and mangled by swinish hands, his diamond turned into simple glass.From deep existential philosophy in the spirit of Bataille, themes of the wordless suffering behind our words, non- knowledge in the immanent to this; a Hallmark soap-opera pretending to actually have a truly horrifying impact?!! Ha, ha,just sad. What the hell was he thinking?!!Every single aspect of this stillborn deformity is without any worth whatsoever, the perfected darkness you felt throughout the original is completely absent here, the profound suffering that screamed at you from every frame in the original is here replaced with cardboard characters, middle-of-the road actors that you know just puts on a momentary show of pain. Pain made palatable for the brain-dead children, pain made presentable enough to sell tickets. No real substance and no real darkness to be found here. Move on.In short, the one and only Martyrs was made in 2008. End of.