Ouelhaj uses Martha’s world as a provocative means of criticizing the patriarchy and frames a fictional story around a true unsolved crime as an intentional affront. Morality exists in a grey space, eliciting sympathy for an otherwise repulsive beast even the title is a starting point of examination. It’s aggressive and unrelenting in its torture, both Martha and the film’s many victims. Ouelhaj doesn’t handhold and leaves much of Martha’s story up for interpretation.
The more unhinged its characters become, the more nightmarish fantasy creeps in until a Grand Guignol finale with no easy answers. The lines of morality blur as prey transforms into predator. Schumacher’s portrayal of Martha is remarkable the deft shifts in personality keep you guessing while drawing you into her orbit. It helps mute the gruesomeness that evokes sympathy for a character prone to condemnable actions. François Schmitt ’s foreboding yet beguiling Gothic cinematography and muted palettes in conjunction with Gary Moonboots and Simon Fransquet ‘s primal score lend a dreamlike aesthetic to the boundary-pushing, hyper-violent horror. Martha’s inner demons are lurking within, and an increasing sense that perceptions aren’t what they seem. Martha’s story is shot like a Baroque painting, with sharp contrasts of light and pitch-black shadows.
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It’s a character study of a woman born and raised by a serial killer that targeted women and how it distorts her. Instead of turning straight to revenge, Martha seeks solace in the concept of family, leading to a vastly different and grotesque means of achieving it. Ouelhaj lingers on the faces of the perpetrators, victim, and the complicit in Martha’s brutal assaults, captured in near silence to draw out the visceral discomfort. Constant torment by factory workers Luc ( Pierre Nisse ), L’ouvrier ( Quentin Lasbazeilles ), and a guilty by passiveness Jerome ( Wim Willaert ) tips Martha’s precarious grip on reality. Many that bleed over into her waking life. She’s subservient to her more dominant brother, nearly mute at work, and plagued by vivid nightmares of demonic figures. From the outset, Martha is established as browbeaten, devoid of self-esteem, and eager for love and stability. Writer/Director Karim Ouelhaj blends nihilistic, extreme horror with an arthouse psychological descent to capture the unraveling of Martha.
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Their unconventional way of life seems to unravel once Martha suffers a series of grotesque assaults at work. Felix dedicates himself wholly to following his father’s footsteps, modus operandi and all, while the timid Martha works nights as a janitor at a factory. Cut to the present, where adult siblings Martha ( Eline Schumacher ) and Felix ( Benjamin Ramon ) live alone in the spacious yet crumbling Gothic manor. A blood-drenched woman screams in fury and pain, her eyes blood red from the strain, while the Butcher and his older child await their new family member. Megalomaniac opens with a birthing scene that, at first, could be mistaken for a violent torture scene. It’s at once compelling and uncomfortable to watch. It yields extremism, confrontational horror that aims to offend as much as it does evoke wrath, and societal reflection. Megalomaniac supposes the atrocious serial killer had offspring that carried on his heritage. As heinously and abruptly as these discoveries began, they ceased in 1997, and the Mons Butcher’s identity remains unknown today. In the video, the gargantuan creature swam up to the crew's dive cage and poked around curiously before disappearing back into the blue.The Butcher of Mons was a moniker given to a notorious serial killer in Mons, Belgium, who left bags of dismembered women along visible roadsides. Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, a shark conservationist working for Discovery's "Shark Week," shot jaw-dropping footage of the massive creature off Mexico's Guadalupe Island in 2013. It's thought that she could be more than 50 years old. Her name is Deep Blue and, at an estimated 20 feet long and possibly still growing, she's widely considered to be among the largest great white sharks ever caught on camera. LOS ANGELES - The average great white shark clocks in between 11 and 15 feet long, but one great white spotted just a few times in recent years blows her brothers and sisters out of the water. Deep Blue, a 20-foot great white shark spotted off the coast of Guadalupe Island, is widely considered to be among the biggest great white sharks ever filmed.
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