"Broken - The Movie
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The Broken Movie is a full length music video used by Nine Inch Nails to promote their Broken EP, released in 1992. It is a compilation video because each video in the package was recorded separately and then edited together, with the exception of "Gave Up". The video was filmed and directed by Peter Christopherson of the band Coil, and Trent Reznor.

The whole video is about twenty minutes in length and features videos for almost all of the tracks from Broken (The exceptions being the short musical interlude "Help Me I Am In Hell", and the track "Last", which had no video). The wraparound story involves a young man being kidnapped and made to watch Nine Inch Nails videos while being tortured, which allegedly provoked an investigation by the FBI who thought that it was an actual snuff film.

The video for Happiness In Slavery was lifted from the compilation and used to promote the single of the same name. The video features performance artist Bob Flanagan strapping himself into a machine that subsequently rapes and kills him. The video was universally banned, but is available for download at the bands official site. The film also has a cameo by Robert Patrick (most famous for his role as the T1000 in the Hollywood blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day and brother of Filter frontman and former NIN guitarist Richard Patrick) portraying a police officer.

The video has not been given an official commercial release thus adding to its mythological status in alternative culture. The original hand-dubbed tapes were distributed by Reznor to various friends and dominatrixes, and original tapes are hard to come by. A future release seems unlikely, but it is available on some Nine Inch Nails fansites as well as on file sharing networks in MPEG form. These are generally not of the highest quality as they are not first generation copies.


This is a rip from my copy of the VHS, picture quality is a 7 out of 10."






i'm downloading it now

looks cool

it is pretty cool and disturbing in parts...but then isn't that part of the allure of nin?

"Help Me I Am In Hell" has a video. "Last" is the only Broken track to not have a video (which is weird, since it's the best track on that EP).

Actually, this is untrue. The authorities were concerned with the footage in the Down in it video.

Broken would be good to have if there was a High Quality version around. Unfortunately, any of the sources that I have found have been poo. Time has added to the mystique of this video. Happiness in Slavery is pretty much the highlight. I know I was disappointed when I finally saw it a couple of years ago.

happiness in slavery is a fucking kids movie compared to the broken movie. perverse stuff

guess I'm too desensitized... I was kinda bored and after years and years of anticipation, I was let down.

You can download it at the NIN site?!

i have to see this....lead singer from filter has a brother who was T1000? filter....

Yeah, I didn't know Robert Patrick & Richard Patrick were brothers...interesting.

i see youve finally found the elusive Broken video . i dont know what movie the rest of you guys have been watching but the one i saw disturbed the hell out of me. There were scenes showing a guy tied up being burnt with a blowtorch and having his limbs cut off and then anal raped....if you're desensitized to that....WOW.....

ok sadly im never gonna see this. i think ill stick with the cds

hey people

pm me , if you want the link (torrent)

Go buy a Mortician album and use your imagination.

This is actually an upgrade of my previous copy, thanks for posting this!

Why the fuck would this be good to have?

I don't know if there's any reason in the world to watch this. I'm a HUGE Nine Inch Nails fan and I haven't seen it, but from the descriptions I've read and from what Kyle has told me about it, I have absolutely no desire to see it. Who wants to watch some dude literally get his dick chopped off?

I DO.

No you don't.