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Film4 Fright Fest Reviews: Frank Henenlotter's BAD BIOLOGY And The Extreme French Horror Flick MARTYRS!

French horror by gavdiggity	Aug 28th, 2008 12:21:54 PM
Is quickly becoming my favorite.
R.A The Rugged Man and Jedi Mind Tricks? by tonagan	Aug 28th, 2008 12:24:41 PM
You kids and your slang. Could someone enlighten us old timers?
Martyrs trailer by gavdiggity	Aug 28th, 2008 12:34:42 PM
http://www. martyrs-lefilm. com/
Stop motion cock! by buffywrestling	Aug 28th, 2008 12:40:01 PM
Hilarious, glad to see Frank back, definitly checking that one out. The second however....I mean, I'm a huge horror fan but I like the fake rush of being scared in a relatively safe enviroment. I think there is a difference from being shocked with torture pron and being frightened; although I'm guessing some people use the terms "shocked" and "frightened" interchangablely - which they aren't.
The Martyr's target audience... by PotSmokinAlien	Aug 28th, 2008 12:55:15 PM
...is people who could see past the gore in Hostel & Hostel II and appreciate the subtext. (IE, me and seemingly 10 other people on this earth.) I'm predicting the torturers are her own family, maybe? As long as it doesn't turn out that she is the torturers, like another French horror movie I am not gonna mention.
buffy by gavdiggity	Aug 28th, 2008 12:59:13 PM
I see what you're saying, and I agree to an extent. I remember reading a quote by Stephen King once. He said, "Horror is physical, terror is psychological." While I'm not a fan of the Hostel or Saw movies, after seeing things like Haute Tension (except for the last few minutes), The Descent and À l'intérieur, I'm willing to give Martyrs a look. Shit, I sat through Men Behind the Sun once... how bad could this be?
Buffy by PotSmokinAlien	Aug 28th, 2008 01:00:35 PM
So you're saying 'torture pron' somehow transforms a viewing experience into a real rush of being scared in an unsafe environment? How's that work? You're still in a movie theatre...
Who cares when AVATAR is fucking our eyeballs... by Motoko Kusanagi	Aug 28th, 2008 01:05:00 PM
...in 2009?
Mmmmm, Smells Like Fantastic Fest by psychedelic	Aug 28th, 2008 01:14:44 PM
With any luck these two will play at the fest.
Bad Biology is insanely fun by Shepard Wong	Aug 28th, 2008 01:19:56 PM
I'm really looking forward to seeing it again. I also met Hennenlotter when he premiered Bad BIology at the Philly Festival. He was a really cool guy. He even hung around the festival a few days after his film ran and went to the screening of Stuart Gordon's Stuck.
Martyrs' makeup artist.... by whatever1964	Aug 28th, 2008 01:46:02 PM
took his own life according to fangoria.com...
MARTYRS and the New French Horror... by krull rules	Aug 28th, 2008 01:49:46 PM
First it was the Japanese, now it's the French...MARTYRS, FRONTIERS, INSIDE, and before HIGH TENSION and IRREVERSABLE...I highly look forward to seeing MARTYRS...
Yeah, what's up with French horror? by TroutMaskReplicant	Aug 28th, 2008 01:54:05 PM
You could make some wanky link to the French use of the guillotine, but I'm sure that would be bollocks. It's funny how they all come to Hollywood and fuck their careers up though.
Both sound like useless crap... by Ninja Nerd	Aug 28th, 2008 02:38:03 PM
Beaks...the next time you "kinda feel like you have to" see something like Martyrs, just imagine the first victim on-screen is your mother, sister, etc. I'd bet it's the last time you'll have the urge to see useless shit like this.
Again with Hostel? by Raindog789	Aug 28th, 2008 02:45:12 PM
Hot sticky Jesus...if I hear the words "Landmark" and "Hostel" used in the same sentence again, I'm gonna CGI my own cock. That's right, you heard me.
R.A The Rugged Man and Jedi Mind Tricks by Series7	Aug 28th, 2008 02:53:27 PM
Thats fucking awesome I love their music. Well not so much R.A.'s but Jedi Mind is fucking awesome.
tongan by axemurder	Aug 28th, 2008 03:04:18 PM
sorry R>A and Jedi Mind tricks are under ground rappers that somehow hooked up with frank and funded his film...sorry should have made that clear Raindog789 the second half of the film resembles hostel in that it is set underground where the victims are chained up and tortured, it is a lot more cerebal than hostel.
Vault of Horror by drunkenmonkey73	Aug 28th, 2008 03:17:07 PM
I stayed up late to watch this. Starring Tom Baker and Denholm Elliot ,Plot: Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of their demise. Sweet childhood memorys.
hey ninja nerd by SpawnofAchilles	Aug 28th, 2008 04:21:33 PM
what does envisioning my mom in a fake horror film have to do with anything? If I did that I'd be like, holy shit my mom is an actress?! Then I would be really pissed she never told me, and I would marvel at how she kept it a secret... it certainly would not damage my urge to see awesome and affecting horror films... I just fail to see the connection you're trying to make.
Thanks axemurder by tonagan	Aug 28th, 2008 05:04:39 PM
I'm glad they helped him out!
potsmoker by buffywrestling	Aug 28th, 2008 05:18:00 PM
No, I meant that bit about the scary aspect of horror movies. I think torture porn movies are only shocking and not scary just for the fact that the shocks wear off. I don't think that makes them better or worse, just different.
benditlikelucas by RumpleWho	Aug 28th, 2008 05:33:56 PM
Shrek 2 - $503,040,600 (441,226,247 adjusted) Give it another week.
Torture Porn = Yawn by G100	Aug 28th, 2008 07:02:44 PM
Why even bother with the pretext of a story anymore one wonders ? Simply fill up a movie with scenes from the Spanish Inquisition or the Marquis De Sade and it seems you have a ready market of idiots who will lap it up these days.
Well, if hating torture porn makes you... by Baron-Von-Poopie-Pants-the-3rd	Aug 28th, 2008 08:10:47 PM
part of the moral right, then call me mother-fuckin' Pat Robertson. Nice argument, cockface.
brain damage was about gay love - like topgun! by ironic_name	Aug 28th, 2008 09:13:20 PM
http://tinyurl.com/5o8erw
martyrs = old people torturing girls to see if there is an after by ironic_name	Aug 28th, 2008 09:44:47 PM
spoilt!
life by ironic_name	Aug 28th, 2008 09:45:42 PM

I want another Basket Case! by disfigurehead	Aug 28th, 2008 10:45:19 PM
I love me some Belial
Bad Biology was great. Mum and Dad was dull. by Dolmes	Aug 29th, 2008 01:27:53 AM
I went Friday and all the films were great except for the two Brit entries :-( Mum and Dad, dull, dull, dull. I've seen worse in an episode of Dirty Sanchez...and Freakdog from the Shrooms director. That was dull too. A Dolemite trailer was played before Bad Biology which woke us all up though :-D
ironic_name by Marxeffect	Aug 29th, 2008 03:31:08 AM
If you have just spoilt this film, then you sir are a cock and I hope that you get chained up and tortured until you have to use your "emergency" phone and call your mother who comes to rescue you and inadvertently gets gang raped by the guy with the 30" cock!!
ironic name by axemurder	Aug 29th, 2008 04:29:21 AM
you fucking twat why would you do that? why would spoil the movie out of pure spite. you are officially a dickhead and harry and co should kick your ass off the site you titwank
Where was this site's coverage of INSIDE? by MaxTheSilent	Aug 29th, 2008 05:29:46 AM
I don't fucking believe it! The greatest horror film of the decade went almost completely under the noses of the bozos that write for this site. God help you when the utter masterpiece, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, gets a general release. I guess it will have to make way for more horse-shit articles about Fucking VOLTRON!!
benditlikelucas by TheNorthlander	Aug 29th, 2008 06:14:04 AM
Well what doesn't kill a franchise only makes it... Stranger?
A lot more cerebal than hostel? by Iowa Snot Client	Aug 29th, 2008 06:36:56 AM
Inconceivable!
if I can stop a tortureporn from getting even a few dollars by ironic_name	Aug 29th, 2008 08:31:03 AM
then I consider that a job well done. that being said, bad biology sounds excellent.

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