We’ve had the news over from Eureka Entertainment that a theatrical release of Strangled [A Martfüi Rém], a chilling serial-killer drama based on the true story of the Monster of Martfü, in selected cinemas nationwide (UK & Ireland).
Based on real-life events, Strangled is a social, political and psychological thriller set in the provincial Hungary of the 1960s at the height of socialism, when a series of atrocious murders shock the small town of Martf?.
Strangled – Still (Eureka Entertainment)
A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced for crimes he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the scene and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the prosecutor to see a man hang. We soon find ourselves entangled in a web of intricate conspiracy and disturbing drama.
Winner of NINE Hungarian Film Awards in 2017, this dark and gritty thriller directed by Árpád Sopsits, grapples with an incredible anomaly of crime and punishment as it examines and expands the extraordinary story of the infamously malicious Martf? Murderer.
Strangled – Still (Eureka Entertainment)
What the Press say about Strangled
“There’s an intriguing sense of time and place here; events play out in a small place in an ostensibly simpler time, perhaps, but the political crosswinds are strongly felt and complex. Technical credits are solid in this historical drama. It’s the kind of subject matter which has been appropriated for the small screen of late, but there’s a scope and ambition here which justifies a big-screen release domestically.” – Screendaily.com
“A pure genre film of international quality but with an atmosphere and environment that remains quintessentially Hungarian.” – Smokingbarrels.com
“There is no explanation for the evil shown by a serial killer but there is for every other aspect of his character and that’s much more terrifying. ‘Strangled’ is the best Hungarian film of the year.” – Index.hu
“This genre sits particularly well with Sopsits and, assisted by the cinematographer Gábor Szabó, he manages to create a very strong, almost noir effect.” – Filmkultura.hu
“After a handful of auteur films, Sopsits has eventually created his first authentic genre movie and appears to have made the most successful Hungarian crime movie to date.” – Vox.hu
“We haven’t seen such a good Hungarian film in a very long time.”- Nyugat.hu
“… above and beyond excellent storytelling and depiction of an era, the final dramatic twist takes a ‘simple’ detective story and turns it into a crime movie.”- Filmtett
Strangled will receive its UK Premiere on Monday 9 October 2017 at The Prince Charles Cinema as part of the 60th BFI London Film Festival 2017, attended by the director Árpád Sopsits. Tickets are available from the BFI website.
Further festival screenings of Strangled are to be announced, ahead of a nationwide release (UK & Ireland) in selected Cinemas on 17 November 2017.
Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.
