Broken (1993 film)

Broken informally known as The Broken Movie is a 1993 horror musical short filmlong form music video filmed and directed by Peter Christopherson, based on a scenario by Trent Reznor, the founder of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The film is a companion piece to the bands 1992 EP Broken, featuring its songs and music and compiling its music videos the exception being Last and the two hidden tracks. The movie, roughlyminutes in length, weaves Brokens four music videos together via a violent snuff film framing sequence, concluding with an otherwise unreleased video for the EPs final song Gave Up, setting the conclusion of the films frame story to the song. Due to its extremely graphic content, the Broken movie was never officially released, but was leaked as a bootleg which became heavily traded on VHS in the 1990s, and more recently via the Internet.

The film begins with a scene of a person being executed by hanging. The trap door opens and the person drops with a maniacal smile on his face.The movie then cuts to footage of an amateur video, taken from inside a car going through various parts of a city the backwards n from the Broken album cover and the title broken is shown superimposed as a glass overlay. The car goes from the middleclass suburbs to, literally, the other side of the tracks, into a shoddy industrial area, with a brief shot of a Meat District sign. The car approaches a young man on the sidewalk. Almost immediately, the young man is suddenly in a basement, tied with a seat belt to a chair and cleave gagged, while being forced to watch a television. The first video, Pinion, begins to play. ........

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