I have heard about this movie, but has refrained from seeing it as many says it was really disturbing on a deeper level than any ordinary horror movie. There have been a few other movies that I have also refrained from seeing, for the same reason. The oldest one was:
"Salò - the 120 Days of Sodom" that was about the savagery a group of Mussolini-fascist in Italy, inflicted upon a group of young girls & boys they held captive during the end of the war. When they knew they were going to lose and/or get killed when the allied invasion forces arrived. they wanted to act upon these perverted debaucheries as a final act of having power over people like that. So, as this final opportunity to act like real savages and sadistic the young girls & boys t were subject to them for four months, and they inflicted perverted sex-acts, extreme violence, sadism, and sexual and mental torture, and physical tortures murder, on these victims. People I heard, who saw this film, was physically ill, and had to turn it off, or leave the room. So I passed on that one.
Naother one I skipped for pretty much the same reason was a film called
A Serbian Movie. A really sick movie about rape, child molestation, human trafficking, and filming
snuff-movies, and even performing necrophilia on their victims.
And then it is a final one, called
The Human Centipede, where a perverted,and totally insane surgeon fulfils his twisted & insane dream of taking three people and surgically sewing these 3 people together, and making them to one single centipede-looking creation. He then use this "centipede" ( all 3 people very much alive) to train like a house-pet, and also for torture, perversion, and other generally insane whims. A movie - that people I knew, whom have seen this - almost throw up watching it. So I pass on it.
But I am a bit curious about
Martyrs anyway. So I might watch it some time in the future, when/if I feel up for it.