By contributing writer Adam Page I’m going to start this with a confession, as that’s really what this movie is about; confession and the horrible possibility that confession changes nothing. I’ve seen Martyrs more times than is probably good for my, or anyone’s, mental health, and each time I left the cinema, or more often […]
It’s hard to believe that two decades of the new millennium have already passed. It seems like only yesterday that we were complaining about ticket prices for Millennium Eve, whilst simultaneously fearing a computer glitch which would potentially mean the end of the world as we know it. Well, it didn’t quite happen that way […]
Spoiler warning. It certainly doesn’t feel like ten years has passed since Pascal Laugier’s divisive horror film Martyrs first arrived, but the more I reflect on the state of horror cinema at the time of its release, the more I feel inclined to agree that ‘the past is a foreign country’. In 2008, horror cinema […]