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Masterpiece or Menace: Is Martyrs (2009) Torture Porn?

  By Cassie Carnage May 15, 2015 Masterpiece or Menace, Movies, Opinion Piece

“Martyrs” (2009) is a controversial French film that some consider torture porn. It is full of brutal, raw violence all for the sake of purifying a body to allow for the transcendence of the soul and mind to a holier plane of existence, or to become one with the universal consciousness, … Read More

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