Its simple, this is a fatal 4 way showdown between 4 modern horror movies that a lot of people keep talking about and are saying good things about them, so which one of these four would you add to your collection?
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Hey brothers and sisters, I finally saw MARTYRS for myself and posted a comment on IMDB but I'll tell you its something else, and believe it or not I find it difficult to recommend the film to other people especially other horror fans, even though they are used to films like SAW & HOSTEL but like I said this is something else.
shareMARTYRS is worth a repeat viewing - but only after a short period, say two or three weeks.......it does justice to itself with a second viewing and slight anomalies become answered. Perhaps that is why the final image is so haunting.
shareFrontiere(s) is completely derivative. Inside is a surprisingly good horror/thriller. Martyrs is remarkable and I would say is the "must see" of the list.
shareI did one better and bought it, I also got FRONTIER(S), the other two I'll probably see next month then I'll give my feedback.
shareseen all of them save eden lake. INSIDE was the best of the lot, easy. it just felt no-holds-barred from start to finish, and had some clever things going on symbolically and visually. the first half of martyrs was just as brutal, but then.... it fell off. i didn't really think the whole martyrs thing worked at all. i didn't buy it for a second. the continual beatings seemed not just boring and monotonous, but gratuitous. the skinning seemed more like the SFX crew showing off, ooo! look what we can do!!! we're as good as americans!, but who cares? what's more, the payoff was complete crap too. i HATE movies that, in lieu of any concrete idea resort to opticals, a la 2001. ooooooh. pretty colors. super dumb. the fact of the matter is it simply doesn't hold together with the first half of the movie. frontier(s) to my mind doesn't even belong in the same breath as martyrs or inside. it's stock torture-porn horror. nothing new, nothing interesting, save what it's saying about trying to escape fascism. otherwise, yawn. at least, martyrs had it's first half going for it.
shareWell Martyrs is my pick of them all, it was one of the first movies i've ever watched and just had to go 'wow' afterwards and take a second. Inside is a close second, then Eden Lake with Frontiers last. Frontiers was very good, nothing stood out for me in that movie though.
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Well, I finally got around to buying INSIDE yesterday and sat down, eager to watch.....
I can quite honestly say that the ending made me truly squirm....but this film is as impressive as MARTYRS, even though it is giving a different message towards the end. MARTYRS would still edge it for me but INSIDE comes second.
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Obviously Martyrs. It still messes with my head everytime I watch it
sharedefinately Eden Lake
I'm not really like that... except when I am.
Inside executes its premise almost perfectly, aside from some wrong notes towards the end. But Martyrs has a bigger ambition, and even though it hits some sour notes it's a much more interesting film because it gives its "torture porn" a proper context for discussion.
I haven't seen Eden Lake, but Frontiers it just awful.
I've seen all four and loved all of them except Inside.
But if I had to choose 1, it would be Martyrs. But I'm buying Martyrs and Frontier(s) online.
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Martyrs is one of the best horror films of the decade, Eden lake is also one of the strongest of the decade but Frontiers was just ordinary and average.
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Seems MARTYRS is certainly a winner on this post, I'm going to see INSIDE in December, because thats when my DVD copy arrives then I'll give an opinion about it, I'll probably see EDEN LAKE sometime next year, with so many movies I want to see it will just have to wait in line.
shareFrontier(s) without a doubt good story and plenty of gore, although Inside is a must (just not for the squeamish)
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