| View Larger Image | Broken (Unrated) | DVDStarring: Nadja Brand, Eric Colvin (II), Atesh Salih, Abbey Stirling
Directed By: Adam Mason, Simon Boyes
| List Price: | $14.95 | |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 90 minutes | | Format: | Color, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Weinstein Company | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.78:1 | | Release Date: | September 25, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 36,544th |
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Description
Hope and her young daughter are abducted and brought to a remote forest by a mysterious and nameless man. As Hope is forced to undergo a series of humiliating, violent, and degrading trials, she fights desperately to escape and discover the fate of her missing daughter. |
Amazon.com
An impressive if stomach-churning low-budget horror film from England, Broken details the ordeal of a woman (co-producer Nadja Brand) kidnapped by a deranged survivalist (Eric Colvin) who attempts to shatter her will in order to make her his slave. Very little dialogue is exchanged between the two main characters (another young woman joins them later, and is silenced in a horrific manner), but the performances by the leads make the raw terror and anguish of Brand's situation palpable, as does the gruesome special effects, which make the sadism of the Saw series pale by comparison. The film's relentless misery and ugliness become wearying over the course of a full-length feature (and the surprise ending is both cruel and infuriating), but there's no denying that Broken is both well-crafted (Erik Wilson, second unit director of photography on Alexandre Aja's The Hills Have Eyes and its sequel), is responsible for its exceptionally lush look) and unbearably disturbing--a rare combination for modern horror films. The DVD includes commentary by directors Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, who are also profiled (along with Brand) in a hourlong featurette about the film's torturous production (much of the first half of the film was scrapped or refilmed a year after the initial shoot was completed; glimpses of these deleted scenes are included in the featurette). Brand also gets her own stand-alone extra in the form of an interview taped at a film festival in Brussels. -- Paul Gaita |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 29 reviews)
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Uh... ok by Osmun315 (IL)  1 Stars
October 19, 2009
I really don't get the hype about this film. I ended up trying it after seeing the spectacular film Inside. The covers kind of look like a before and after shot, but that is where the similarities end. This is supposed to be a horror film, but it flat out fails at everything it tries to do. I was sadly reminded of the opening to Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 with the panoramic shots of a forest from flight that litter this movie. This film is supposed to be shocking. It even compares itself to Saw on the cover. Not so much. This is another boring bad guy in the woods holding women captive movie. Nothing new here. What is new is how downright unbelievbable and unlikable all the characters are, and not only "the man," as he is called in the credits. There is whining. There is screaming. There is gore. There is degradation. What there seems to be missing is a point. I know the man is trying to break the women, not kill them. I get that. But, why? And ::spoiler alert:: why does he just give up in the end? And did anyone really expect things to work out in the end of this movie? That just doesn't happen in horror films anymore. It would seem that this Johnny-come-lately of a movie just tries to be too many things at once and ended up as nothing. One star because Amazon doesn't give you the option of no stars.
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Great film. by Deimos (Alberta)  5 Stars
October 13, 2009
I think slasherpool saying "this film makes the Saw films look like childrens movies" is pushing it but this is still a great film. The effects are very realistic, the terror seems natural and real which is hard to depict in any horror film, and the acting is very well done. The story is unique and the fact that the psycho does not want to test or simply kill his victims but break them a new twist. The movie plays out well, there are not to many dull scenes and the film managed to keep me interested all the way through. Great ending for what it was and a very well done film.
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wanna go camping by David C. Wermuth (palo alto, CA) 5 Stars
August 18, 2009
i have been watching a ton of horror flicks recently (all the SAW's, HOSTEL, the AUDITION)... and this one got me good. i really like the sustained undercurrent of evil tension and fear throughout the entire movie. perhaps it is the fact that the bad guy has moments of "could you call it" appreciation for his victims... but you know at any moment he could really mess them up.
BROKEN has it all... good acting, intense suffering, soul murdering... and it is very realistic -- that is the scariest part. the brutal scenes are well timed and effective, nothing over-the-top. i recommend it to anyone who wants an intense rush... and is not expecting a happy ending.
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Gory horror flick that tries too hard to be psychological and falls flat by Daniel Fletcher 1 Stars
August 15, 2009
As a fan of gory horror movies in general, I found that this one really disappointed.
It is of course necessary to suspend disbelief to a certain degree with most movies especially in this genre, but several times I found myself disagreeing strongly with stupid decisions characters made apparently for the sole purpose of increasing drama without serving the story in any way.
I also found the ending to be very disappointing which only served to make the movie even less enjoyable.
Additionally, if you are a fan of straight up torture porn there certainly is some to be found here but other movies have done it better and if that is really all you are looking for in a movie I'd stay away from this one.
Overall I wouldn't recommend this movie for anyone.
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it was ok def not as grussome as most rated by Brian M. Sparacino  3 Stars
July 01, 2009
i bought this movie based on the reviews from amazon i wanted to c this so called badly grussome movie when in fact there was very few graphic scenes the first 15 min theres two graphic scenes then another one 30 min later then one small one near the end thats it all in all it was a ok movie i was hoping for house of a thousand corpes good
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