Broken (Unrated)
by Adam Mason, Simon Boyes
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Actor: Abbey Stirling, Chesse Daves, Eric Colvin, Megan Van Kerro, Nadja BrandDirector: Adam Mason, Simon Boyes
Brand: Genius
Producer: Nadja Brand
Cinematographer: Erik Wilson
Editor: Adam Mason
Producer: Adam Mason
Writer: Adam Mason
Writer: Simon Boyes
Producer: Eric M. Breiman
Producer: Nadya Mason
Producer: Patrick Ewald
Audio: English (Dubbed)
Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Weinstein Company
Movie Reviews of Broken (Unrated)
Movie Review: Excellent Film
Summary: 4 Stars
The bad reception this film seems to have gotten is bewildering to me. Yes, it could go into the "torture porn" envelope but that would be narrow sighted. Broken is a tense, nerve shredding horror with superb acting and direction.
The film would get 5 stars but for a slight lag in the middle and a few instances of stupid character syndrome.
Well done to the film makers. I will be on the lookout for more from Adam Mason.
Summary of Broken (Unrated)
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.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
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