Broken (2006)

• Year: 2006
• Released: 28 Sep 2006
• Country: United Kingdom
• Adwords: 2 wins
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454839/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/broken
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Horror, Thriller
• Runtime: 110 min
• Writer: Simon Boyes, Adam Mason
• Director: Simon Boyes, Adam Mason
• Cast: Nadja Brand, Eric Colvin, Abbey Stirling
• Keywords: parent child relationship, psychopath, forest, self-inflicted injury,

4.7/10

Broken Storyline

After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods with a psychopath, fighting to survive for more than forty days and asking information about her daughter to the stranger.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Broken is what you get if you don’t join the family!

I am gonna skip the synopsis and run to the review itself.

This low budgeted B-Movie is a good surprise. This British independent film has a small cast (3 actors only), very little dialog and set almost entirely in the woods. It hardly sounds like this thing can pull us up for anything good but Simon Boyes and Adam Mason have created a gory, shocking, intelligent and modern thriller.

Broken is somehow paced, I mean, could be a little bit slow for some people out there already hypnotized on clichéd/biased Hollywood horror crap, but let me tell you, this thing will throw suspense and confusion every time you think you know what’s going to happen next…

Nadja Brand (Oh! What a gorgeous and sexy woman!), is absolutely fantastic while making her character very realistic and credible.

Eric Colvin is magnificent according to his character on script.

Abbey Stirling is a young actress and did a mediocre job for her first appearance. Who’s to blame?

Summing all and concluding, the cinematography makes the film look a lot more expensive for a 9000 Euro cost. The editing is professional, the script good and the directing is quite an accomplishment comparing to other British indie movies of such grandness like Dog Soldiers, Cradle of Fear, Dead Meat and even Boy Eats Girl.

So, we or you will think: If it’s so damn good why it’s not being distributed in international theaters? Well… because it’s too grim and too violent for the regular viewers… but not for me.

I bet on Broken… do you?

Could Have Been Amazing…

Broken is a simple story of a good mother who wakes up in a nightmare. Trapped with a serial killer, she must take herself to the brink of pain and strength to survive and discover the fate of her daughter.

What’s good about “Broken” is the gore (I’ve only seen the unrated version), the performances, and the location. The brutal, unflinching gore scenes serve to unnerve the viewer – this ain’t no Lifetime movie, and you’re instantly on edge and expecting the worst. And the lead characters, Hope and the Man, do a good job of portraying their situations without much dialogue. There’s a LOT of screaming and grunting here – I wondered what the neighbors must be thinking. Which leads me to what I found bad about “Broken” – I just never got to know or care about the characters. Is the bad man making some sort of social commentary on the sheltered lives of women? Does he want to create an equal to live out his days in the wilderness with? Does he just think it’s a kick to torture women? Who knows? And Hope is pretty thinly drawn, so I’m just not into her journey of being broken or rebuilt or whatever.

Still, the downbeat ending and the fact that it tried to be something more than it was are commendable.

Painfully bad

An abysmally poor entry into the ‘torture porn’ genre, a British movie shot out in the Cambridgeshire woods somewhere with the writer/director’s own wife playing a central role. I have two questions after watching this: who told the writing/directing team they could direct, and who told the main actress she could act?

BROKEN is the worst kind of horror film, a repulsive exercise in sadism designed to cash in on the popularity of the SAW franchise, which it rips off throughout (and most notably at the beginning). The opening credits play out over a montage of a young woman trying to retrieve a razorblade sewn inside her stomach, and if that sounds like your idea of entertainment then you’re welcome to it. The repetitive self-mutilation continues for another twenty minutes or so before the film settles down into a plot less affair which tries to depict a supposedly tense relationship between hostage and captor.

The truth is that BROKEN is entirely void of original idea and intent, so instead it ups the ante in terms of on-screen gore and general nastiness. Not that the special effects are good, because they aren’t, but there’s a general undercurrent of depravity and sadism which makes it an alternatively gruelling and boring watch. Despite the unpleasantness, there’s never any suspense or tension in any of the hackneyed scenes, and the intensely irritating Nadja Brand fails to elicit one iota of sympathy for her character’s plight. The villain is a nobody, there’s no motivation or backstory for any of the characters, no attempts at characterisation or realism. Just endless repetition and padding until the final, merciful moments.