[Fantasia Review] ‘Martyrs Lane’ Offers Ghostly Mystery Through a Child’s Eyes

There’s a mystery afoot in Ruth Platt’s ghost film, Martyrs Lane. The film, a feature adaptation of the writer/director’s 2019 short of the same name, is less interested in traditional spectral hauntings than exploring grief and loss through the eyes of a little girl who doesn’t fully understand what’s going on. While there are still […]

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Shudder Takes an Unsettling Trip Down ‘Martyrs Lane’ in September [Trailer]

Compared to Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone, Shudder recently acquired the UK ghost story Martyrs Lane, and we’ve learned it’s going to debut on September 9, 2021. “Written and directed by Ruth Platt, and expanded from her 2019 short film by the same name, Martyrs Lane is a deeply personal film that explores love […]

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