| Broken | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Brokenmovie.jpg) Unofficial cover included with the DVD leak | |
| Directed by | Peter Christopherson |
| Written by | Trent Reznor |
| Produced by | Trent Reznor |
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| Music by | Nine Inch Nails |
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Running time | 20 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Broken (informally known as The Broken Movie) is a 1993 horror musical short film and long-form music video filmed and directed by Peter Christopherson. It is based on an idea by Trent Reznor, founder of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and is a companion piece to the 1992 Nine Inch Nails EP Broken.
The film features songs from Broken and is essentially a compilation of its music videos (the exception being "Last" and the two hidden tracks). The film, just 20 minutes in length, weaves the album's four music videos together via a violent "snuff film" framing sequence, concluding with an otherwise unreleased video for the EP's final song "Gave Up" to set the conclusion of the film's frame story to the song.
Due to its extremely graphic content, Broken was never officially released, but was leaked as a bootleg which became heavily traded on VHS in the 1990s and more recently online. Reznor said that Broken makes the music video for "Happiness in Slavery", one of the tracks on the album, "look like a Disney movie".[1]
While Reznor's comments about the film have been cryptic at best, he makes no secret of its existence, and the entire uncensored film is available to view when accessed by a hidden link on the discography page of the official Nine Inch Nails website.[2][3]
- ^ "Band Info". The Fragile. Archived from the original on 24 January 2003.
- ^ "Nine Inch Nails: Broken : Nine Inch Nails : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". 1993 – via archive.org.
- ^ "Discography".