Comments on: The Broken Movie

By: badluckshadow13

badluckshadow13 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:34:21 +0000

I love that movie! A couple years ago, I spent like a week tying to find a replica of that “Trespassers Will Be Eaten” sign… gave up and painted one.
http://th02.deviantart.net/fs29/300W/i/2008/064/e/f/Trespassers_will_be_Eaten_by_badluckshadow13.jpg

@db yeah, isn’t that why Trent mentioned her in the thank you for the next album? Kind of a sarcastic way of letting her know he knew.

Actually how Trent knew is pretty interesting. Because he only made so many copies, he cut each of them a little different, static between scenes in places in one it wasn’t in another. That way when it leaked, he’d know exactly who’d done it.

I should point out the video you’ve embedded appears to be the hi-def, Trent Piratebay’d that himself as an Xmas gift to fans one year.

By: Mer

Mer — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:08:12 +0000

The murk and hiss of my third generation bootleg definitely added a +5 to the creepy factor. It holds up well, though. Especially the Flanagan/SRL video.

By: Tequila

Tequila — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:21:51 +0000

Kinda curious now if the low quality of bootlegged VHS copies made the experience more visceral since no doubt the brutal scenes of torture HAD to look more “real” then for a variety of reasons. A snuff video always looked more true to life in those days than the visual clarity of today where you can just see how fake it is.

By: DS

DS — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:10:48 +0000

What a memory trip this post was! Any mention of the Broken movie immediately reminds me of how I bought a terribly wrapped bootleg of it when I was in high school and was just BLOWN AWAY when I watched it, such a terrible and exciting mix of emotions. I remember propagating those rumors, much to my embarrassment now. Though in defense of the 16 year old me, I simply could not wrap my head around how those little pieces of “snuff” could be anything other than real. You know, I think I still have the VHS somewhere. Reading about it now, I can’t help but wonder what version I bought back then (1994). Now I feel an overwhelming compulsion to dig it out of storage.

By: db

db — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:41:57 +0000

Terribly sorry, wrong link. Ostia by Coil.

By: Slave screams « Strange Ink

Slave screams « Strange Ink — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:32:15 +0000

[...] October 1, 2009 — strangeink Coilhouse conjures up a blast from the past with Trent Reznor’s apocalyptic Broken Movie. Before I had [...]

By: db

db — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:22:52 +0000

This is off-topic, but I think what Christopherson says about violence is probably best exemplified by comparing the Broken movie with his recent video for the Coil song Ostia (The Death of Pasolini), which can be found on the Blu-Ray edition of Pasolini's film Salo. Probably even less safe for work.

By: db

db — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:15:33 +0000

Director Peter Christopherson (better known as half of Coil) writes about this film at some length in his Wire Invisible Jukebox from August of this year. Funny trivia: Trent gave VHS copies of this to friends of his, and each one had some kinda code on it so he could tell who eventually bootlegged it: the copy that was floating around in the '90s (allegedly) came from Gibby Haynes.

By: Paul Komoda

Paul Komoda — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:18:56 +0000

It’s bad enough to put a camera up anyone’s nostril for any reason at all, but to be greeted by that writhing, glistening reception party is, to quote the Pink Elephant song, “…really too much for me!”

Oh yes, now to watch that Broken Movie….

By: paola

paola — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:24:55 +0000

Talking about snuff, you could write something about the delightful movie TESIS by Alejandro Amenàbar – extra low budget, perfect direction, loads of black humour, and, generally, a morality lesson about voyeurism and the reign of appearances over truth. So cute.