Directors Kevin and Michael Goetz remake the French horror film 'Martyrs' into a pointlessly repellent gore fest.

Directors Kevin and Michael Goetz remake the French horror film 'Martyrs' into a pointlessly repellent gore fest.

“It isn’t torture when it’s done for a higher purpose,” explains a character in the torture-porn horror flick “Martyrs,” a self-serving remark...

Filmmaker siblings Kevin and Michael Goetz deliver a remake of the 2008 French cult horror film.

In 2008, writer-director Pascal Laugier contributed to the realm of New French Extremity -- a movement defined by such unrelenting bloodbaths as Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day and Alexandre Aja’s High Tension -- with Martyrs. While lesser films of its ilk received the dreaded "torture porn" label, Laugier's shocking revenge picture gained cult admiration by

Kevin and Michael Goetz serve up a less hardcore version of the horrific French original, which should come as a relief for the squeamish

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Screenwriter Mark L. Smith ("The Revenant") promises psychological suspense in this tale of tortured women seeking revenge, but instead he just revels in sadism

This US remake of a bloody French original has little to offer but soulless grimness

Both the French and U.S. iterations of "Martyrs" are transparently voyeuristic cheaply ginned-up Guignol peep shows with intellectual pretensions.