Tag: Pascal Laugier

The Tall Man Wastes Atmospherics On a Tale Too Tall To Deliver Its Intended Thrills

April 2, 2023.Reading time 7 minutes.

French director Pascal Laugier is about as polarizing as it gets in the horror genre. His sophomore effort, Martyrs, remains one of the most controversial horror movies of all time. Though it didn’t have the same far-reaching impact, Ghostland – or Incident in a Ghostland -was no less divisive upon its release. Somewhere in between […]

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Martyrs Remake Sacrifices The Original’s Power for Watered-Down Version

March 27, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

The ‘New French Extremity” movement of the 2000s produced some of the most controversial and transgressive horror films this century. Not surprisingly then, North American filmmakers who ran out of 1980s slasher films to remake have begun looting these French horror treasures. One of the first Extremity films to get the remake treatment was Martyrs, […]

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