10 Films That Want You To HATE Them

If you thought Eli Roth had the majority share on torture porn, you had better check the stocks. A bloody and unrelenting exercise in cruelty, Pascal Laugier's Martyrs relishes the opportunity to trap its protagonist and viewers in a sealed metal basement, going to agonising lengths to show the minutia of intense, human-inflicted suffering.

A troubled young woman breaks into a family home and slaughters them before committing suicide, leaving her damaged friend to pick up the pieces. Beginning as a psychological drama based around mental illness and seemingly misplaced vengeance, the film steers into its conspiracy elements and reveals a secret society whose mission it is to discover the secrets of the afterlife via the torture and creation of 'martyrs': young, female victims that they bring to the searing edge of death in the hope that their suffering will provide insight into the afterlife.

And, if viewers stick out the movie and make it to the end, the lack of explanation and possible or apparent victory of the antagonists will leave them seething.