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A woman is thrust into a world where everything is subtly unfamiliar in this edgy thriller from writer and director Sean Ellis. Gina McVay (Lena Headey) is a radiologist who is enjoying dinner one evening with her family and her boyfriend Stefan (Melvil Poupaud) when a mirror shatters for no apparent reason. After a few moments, no one thinks much of it, but the next day Gina is leaving work and she sees something even more troubling -- a woman who looks just like her, driving a car identical to her own. Curious, Gina sneaks into the doppelganger's apartment and sees a photo of herself and her father in the hallway. Seriously rattled, Gina runs out and drives away, only to get in an accident that lands her in the hospital. After she's released, Gina asks Stefan if she can stay with him, but while he looks the same, his personality and behavior are quite different from the way she remembers him, and she begins having vivid nightmares which become all the more terrifying when the same horrific images begin popping up in her waking hours. The Broken received its American premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Rating
R (for some violence, brief sexuality/nudity and language)
Director
Sean Ellis (II)
Studio
After Dark Films
Writer
Sean Ellis (II)
  • I thought this had some very entertaining twists and very interesting.
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  • The Broken stirs up a interesting premise and boasts just enough thrills for a low budget horror film
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  • A good psychological thriller. I can often predict the ending of a film, but this had a twist I didn't see coming. There was a flaw in one line of dialogue. She was discussing an x-ray with a colleague and she pointed out that the heart was on the right side of the chest. She said, "Dextrocardia situs inversus. It's not uncommon, but it's pretty rare." She should have said, "It's not unheard of, but it's pretty rare." Other than that, the movie was pretty good.
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  • Interesting twist on a familiar horror/SciFi concept. LH is great, as always, in this slow burning thriller.
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  • The Broken is a nice little film which watches like short story. It is not really scary, but rather creepy and mysterious with a good twist at the end. Recommended to fans of supernatural thrillers; The Broken is reminiscent of the Twilight Zone as well as Japanese films like The Ring and The Grudge.
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  • Decent movie. It starts off incredibly slow, then turns into an intriguing premise and suspenseful film, but it's then brought down by a confusing and predictable ending, and the performances are so-so, Headey having the best.
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  • Excellent ideas only half executed for some reason, kinda sad as the film has a ton of potential that looks to be just thrown away by forcing the audience to come to there own conclusions as the director couldn't.
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  • Thriller de ritmo pausado y oscuro lo que supone, tal vez, un detrimento para este filme que por lo demas es una bonita fabula sobre el eterno tema del reflejo en el espejo; un ser envidioso cuya existencia viene a ser solo cuando nos miramos en el espejo. La envidia es lo que mueve a este ser prisionero hasta cometer los actos mas despreciables y romper la naturaleza de su existencia alterando el orden de las cosas. Sin embargo, uno de ellos, por un inesperado accidente, sueña con poseer una vida que no puede recordar y busca la manera de hilvanar esos recuerdos.
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  • Interesting mash up of concepts in this suspensefully stylish and atmospheric thriller. The kind that will likely find you coming back and thinking about it again and again. Unfortunately, it's paced too slowly and too softly delivered to be as good as it could have been.
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  • Creepy, unnerving and off-kilter atmosphere. This film, though flawed and perhaps predictable at times is well worth the watch. The Broken is one of the better thrillers I've seen in a while and is not as bad as some would lead you to believe. Lena Heady and Richard Jenkins are as good as ever and totally believable in their performances with what they have to work with. I suspect what disturbs most viewers is the ending.
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  • The Broken is a fantastic existential horror film for fans of Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Lynch--Manages to scare while simultaneously tickling the intellect!!
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  • This could've been so much more, but it's pretty good. Subtle touches like the not-quite mirror-image number plate, and the camera's use of reflection. But... why no other palindromes, like waking at 4:00am instead of 4:04? Chekhov's Gun shown but not fired: the cut over the left brow, and what about the other driver? This story should have taken further exploration. (Intent?)
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  • movie full of mystics. there is another world in the mirrors.. so not always when you look in it you see just a reflection of you. it might be you..another you!
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  • Enjoyably moody riff on the old "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" set up...
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  • An intelligent doppleganger horror film, The Broken opens with the final lines of Poe's classic "William Wilson" and proceeds to sculpt a dark, brooding atmosphere in which the uncanny slowly overtakes the normal. Building upon common superstitions and classic horror tales, The Broken sculpts its own unique brand of slow-burn horror that leads irrevocably towards its unnerving conclusion.
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