If you loved Martyrs, try Holidays

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Martyrs

2015 · dir. Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz

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Holidays

2016 · dir. Gary Shore, Kevin Smith, Dennis Widmyer, Kevin Kölsch, Scott Stewart, Nicholas McCarthy, Sarah Adina Smith, Adam Egypt Mortimer, Anthony Scott Burns

What they share

Theyboth carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Horror / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to Martyrs, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Holidays is

October Pennsylvania, jack-o'-lantern smirking on a porch beside a melted candy apple. A prism of mini-horrors cracks open each holiday: Easter’s plastic eggs hiding teeth, Fourth of July fireworks that sear skin. A campfire story where Santa’s sleigh is a hearse. One more corpse blooming under the tinsel.

If you loved Martyrs, try Holidays

Martyrs

Holidays

What they share

What Holidays is

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