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~~The~~ '''''Broken ~~Movie~~''''' is a short film made in 1993 to promote the ''[[Broken]]'' EP, released in 1992. It is presented as a snuff film, about 20 minutes in length, interspersed with ''Broken''’s four [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music videos]] and includes its own video for the song "Gave Up" as its conclusion. The movie was filmed and directed by [[Peter Christopherson]]. The PirateBay release notes for the unofficial DVD release assign a ''[[Halo numbers|Halo 5 DVD]]'' designation to that release.

The film involves a young man being kidnapped and made to watch [[Nine Inch Nails]] videos while being tortured. [[Trent Reznor]] once said that the ''Broken Movie'' "...makes 'Happiness In Slavery' look like a Disney movie".

==="Help Me I Am In Hell"===

At this point in the film, the victim is shown still tied to the table as the killer proceeds to rip his victim’s teeth out, reflecting the man in the music video shown eating. In the most prominent VHS leak, this part was blacked out, ~~probably~~ possibly as a way for Reznor to tell whose copy of the film had been leaked.

==="Happiness in Slavery"===

The film ends with a video for "Gave Up", different from the one on ''Closure'', with the music simply dubbed over the storyline of the movie. At this point in the film, the victim is suspended from the ceiling and is repeatedly attacked by the perpetrator with a blade, and then with a blowtorch; the killer then slices off the victim's penis with a razor. The camera-work at this part closely resembles that of an amateur snuff film, while there is interspersed footage of the police searching through the basement and finding remains of previous victims. (At one point, a sign that reads "TRESPASSERS WILL BE EATEN" is shown.) Finally, the film cuts back to the victim strapped on the table, as the murderer hacks his limbs off with a chainsaw, proceeds to presumably rape him, and ultimately slices his chest open to consume his heart.

The movie then cuts back to the execution scene shown at the beginning of the film, where the killer is being dropped through the trap door, falling through a seemingly immensely long ~~tunnel~~expanse, until the rope ~~tightens suddenly~~goes taut. The movie ends with the inverted version of the ''Broken'' album cover, with the background black, and a mirrored "n" character filled with the original orange background texture. ~~After~~ In a stinger, after roughly a minute of silence and a black screen, the ~~severed~~ decapitated head of the killer is shown flying across the screen.

The movie includes a copyright notice at the end, "1993 © [[Interscope Records]]".

==Release==

According to Reznor's Prodigy posts, the film was planned to be released on VHS and LaserDisc in May 1993. [https://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/display/327] However, due to its extremely graphic content, the ''Broken Movie'' has never seen an official release, with Reznor stating: [http://www. ~~A copy was leaked on VHS in the 1990s and traded for years, resulting in many poor~~nin-~~quality, high-generation copies, and was later encoded and distributed through P2P networks~~pages.de/1994_Bside_Februar_english. htm]

~~However~~<blockquote>Sooo... let's say we put this thing out, and Interscope will have a big battle, it will be on MTV news because there's this movie condoning rape and dismemberment. [...] Every interview I do for the next five years is going to be what was your social responsibility for putting this out, which I think is none; it's a piece of art. It's a movie I funded, Peter did it, and it's interesting [...] So we just decided to sit on it, which career-wise for Nine Inch Nails was the best thing to do, although we spent a lot of time working on it.</blockquote> A copy was leaked on VHS in the 1990s and traded for years, resulting in many poor-quality, high-generation copies, and was later digitized and distributed through P2P networks. On December 30, 2006, someone under the name "seed0" leaked a high-quality DVD image on The Pirate Bay; it includes the video for "Help Me I Am In Hell"," which none of the fan-made compilations did, because the first leak had the video dropped out. It was leaked online by the same user who uploaded the leaked DVD version of ''Closure'' , and it was speculated that Reznor himself was the source of the leaks. This was implied by a post on his blog on [[The Spiral]]: ''"12/21/06 : Happy Holidays! This one is a guilt-free download. (shhhh - I didn't say that out loud). If you know what I'm talking about, cool."'' [[Rob Sheridan]] has since confirmed that the ''Closure'' leak was from the NIN camp, thereby confirming that the ''Broken Movie'' leak was as well.[https://www.patreon.com/posts/rob-sheridan-ama-34278427]

In 2013, the ''Broken Movie'' was uploaded to the official NIN Vimeo account, but was promptly removed by Vimeo. It is currently available to download from archive.org.[https://archive.org/details/NineInchNails-Broken]

I think that does humanity a disservice because that suggests that you can be horrible and it’s a joke, whereas with what I’m trying to do, if it’s addressing the issue of man’s cruelty to man, there’s no doubt that my intention is to point out how appalling those things are, and what they look like for real. I don’t know what the statistic is of how many people get killed on American TV every second but it’s something horrendous. But because all of those deaths are shown in a plastic way, they don’t prepare people for what death is really like. Really, people in the West have no clue about the reality of death.</blockquote>

==Credits==

===Directors===

*Jon Reiss

*Eric Goode

*Serge Becker

===Cast===

*Nine Inch Nails

**Trent Reznor

**[[Richard Patrick]]

**[[James Woolley]]

**[[Chris Vrenna]]

*"Happiness In Slavery Man" #1: Bob Flanagan

*"Happiness In Slavery Man" #2: Trent Reznor

*Police Officer: Robert Patrick

===Music Composer===

*Trent Reznor

===Producers===

*Trent Reznor

*Adam Stern

*Howard Shafer

*Fiz Oliver

===Writer===

*Trent Reznor

===Editors===

*Peter Christopherson

*Scott Richter

*Lauren Zuckerman

*Dave Daniels

*Philip Richardson

*Ted Tucker

===Production Designer===

*Liz Young

===Camera Operators===

*Gary Tieche

*Dave Daniels

*Adam Rodgers

*Russell Swanson

==External Links==

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