>>96539026Ike did a watchalong of this movie
>martyrs is a 2008 French-language psychological horror film>it follows a young woman's quest to seek revenge against individuals who abducted and tortured her as a child, and her friend, also a victim of abuse>it incited audience walkouts due to its graphic and disturbing content>in 1971, Lucie Jurin escapes from a slaughterhouse where she has been imprisoned and tortured for over a year>she is placed in an orphanage, where she befriends Anna Assaoui. One day, Anna finds Lucie in a bathtub with cuts on her arm>Anna discovers the Belfond mother still alive and tries to help her escape, but Lucie catches them and beats the mother to death with a hammer>the woman resembles the victim that Lucie left behind at the slaughterhouse>Lucie then runs outside and kills herself by slitting her own throat>the following morning, Anna, while on the phone with her estranged abusive mother, discovers a secret passageway in the home's living room, leading to a subterranean chamber containing illuminated photographs of torture, and a living brutalized, emaciated woman, proving Lucie's claims about the Belfonds>a group of people arrive at the house, kill the woman, and capture Anna>though they have only produced "victims" who succumbed to the pain and are unable to speak, the group is determined to create martyrs who accept their suffering and report their visions of the afterlife>Anna becomes the group's newest subject>After a period of being brutally beaten and degraded, she is told that she has progressed further than any other subject and reached the "final stage" >she is flayed alive>the film ends with a shot of Anna lying catatonic on a table seemingly looking at something far away 