10 Incredible Horror Movies You’ll Never Watch Again (And Why)

10. Martyrs

Ask any horror fan what the scariest movie they've ever seen is, and there's a good chance Martyrs will enter the conversation.

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Wasting no time with boring preamble, the audience is thrown straight into the horror as a woman named Lucie invades a family home and treats each member to a face full of buckshot. It's then explained that Lucie was kidnapped and imprisoned when she was younger and the family were responsible. However, after enacting her revenge, Lucie and her friend, Anna, are then attacked by a mutilated creature which stalks them through the house.

In yet another switch, after this Anna then finds herself kidnapped by the group the family belonged to and turned into a 'Martyr', someone who enters the plane between life and death after being exposed to extreme torture (including having her skin flayed).

As you can imagine, it's not an easy movie to sit through.

What cements multiple rewatches as unlikely is this second half with Anna's torture. While the first half is a suspenseful game of cat and mouse, the second is dedicated almost entirely to watching a hero you thought was victorious suddenly suffering the same abuse as the woman she just helped.

It is unrelenting, depressing, and with no happy ending in sight, it's a tough one to sit through twice.

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