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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.nin-pages.de/1994_Bside_Februar_english.htm]
<blockquote>Sooo... let‘s let's say we put this thing out, and Interscope will have a big battle, it will be on MTV news because there‘s 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 it's a piece of art. It‘s It's a movie I funded, Peter did it, and it‘s 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 encoded and distributed through P2P networks.