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The Hello, Sidney Podcast

Episode 4: Martyrs (2008)

The Hello, Sidney Podcast

Sidney

Tv & Film

5828 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sidney does a full deep dive into the plot of the French Extremism film Martyrs (2008) and explores theories about what could have possibly been meant by that cryptic ending.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello?

0:02.0

Hello, Sydney.

0:06.0

Hello, my spooky people, and welcome to yet another episode of the Hello Sydney podcast,

0:41.9

a podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things horror. I'm your host,

0:46.9

Sydney, obviously. And this is episode four. So it means that we have been at this for four long weeks, ladies and gentlemen. This past week, I actually dropped like $1,300 on a new laptop.

0:53.6

So I'm hoping that the sound in this one is better than the last few episodes.

0:57.1

But yeah, needless to say, we're fully dedicated to the pod here.

1:00.5

So if you've been listening this long or if you're just listening to this episode for the first time, either way, I love you.

1:06.1

I appreciate you.

1:07.0

Thank you all for being here with me. Today we're going to be talking about a movie that a lot of

1:11.3

people usually referred to as one of the more disturbing horror movies ever made. If you ask me about it,

1:16.4

or if you've heard me talk about this on TikTok at all, which I do pretty frequently, so you probably

1:21.0

have. But I believe this to be the single most beautiful cinematic masterpiece ever made,

1:26.7

not even just in horror cinema, just in cinema,

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period.

1:29.8

This movie is so haunting and so beautiful, and I'm talking about none other than martyrs

1:37.2

from 2008, the French version, of course.

1:39.8

Now, I had to make sure to specify the French version because the Americans remade this in like,

1:44.5

I don't know, 2016 or something. And just like us Americans tend to do, we fucking ruined it.

1:49.8

We said it was, it was terrible. We should just stop remaking movies that are foreign and that

1:56.2

are just untouchable. We need to stop. So yes, I am strictly talking about the original French version of

2:02.0

martyrs from 2008. So this is classified as a French extremism horror movie. Um, a lot of people,

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