Thanks for the memories!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The first must-see film of the year.

I decided to Google search for underrated Directors and I'm so glad I did since this is how I found Adam Mason's work. Mason is a magician turning very small budgets into great works of art, The acting is good, the more is less works in this film and I highly recommend you do as I did Google Adam Mason and watch his movies you will not be disappointed. I'm on my 3rd movie Mason has directed and I love them all so far, So give this movie a go if you need links to watch his movies online just shoot me a line and I will get these to you, Blood River is amazing and a must watch so is Broken and Luster. I will watch all his movies and rate them here I hope this helps other viewers as I am really happy I found Mason and his works of art. be advised the gore is in your face, and what I loved most about this move it was based on real life experiences, true story, I can't imagine anyone having to go through this type of horror and pain, the fear must have been so crazy yet the human spirit can adopt and survive almost anything.

I hope our movie makers paid actress Nadja Brand some decent money because they sure to hell got their money's worth from her thespian and physical attributes. The camera catches huge close-ups of her bulging eyes, her moist nostrils, her flabby stomach, her matted hair. Most of all, they arrange for her to scream, shriek, slobber, groan, whimper, gasp and scream again through most of this grim, depressed tale of male monster who enjoys capturing women and hiding them out in the woods. To make things even worse, they bring in a SECOND female victim. And then she begins to out-scream the first woman! On and on she shrieks until finally even the psycho can't take it, so what does a good maniac do when the screaming won't stop: he cuts her tongue out. Hysterically, her only reaction is to glare at him--as if p... off that she can't shriek anymore. The Making of the movie shows how hideous the wintry conditions were while filming this dark saga on a tiny little budget. We viewers can only imagine the horrors it took to make this B-movie travesty--what with the nightmarish weather and the non-stop screaming of our female actresses.

This movie begins with a brutal opening scene which sets a very dark and horrifying tone for the rest of the movie. I think what I loved most about Broken was the connection between the victim and villain. I don't want to get too much into the plot but the deeper and unspoken aspect of how the relationship worked between the two seemed so realistic to me that it made it much more real and creepy. This movie made it seem like this situation could happen to just anyone.I loved the main actress and thought she did a wonderful job playing the victim and then adjusting to her surroundings in order to be able to survive. Another thing that made it more realistic was she was just a normal woman. Gone was the Hollywood girls with big hair, short skirts and huge fake boobs. This was your average attractive woman, single mom, lonely and looking for love. She was human… not some airheaded college student who runs upstairs when the door is downstairs. She made this movie seem that much more real to me.I also found the camera work to be dark and despairing. They were outside, yet the atmosphere was dark and gray. It looked cold and everything looked sad and morbid.I truly enjoyed this movie. A very nice surprise for a movie that is super low budget. One thing I would like to add about this movie was that they were comparing it to Saw. I think that this comparison ruined the movie for some folks as they watched it expecting a Saw type thing and ended up watching something completely different, not even comparable. I don't know why they would make that comparison, it only seemed to hurt the reviews.Overall a great film that pulled me in right from the beginning.ZombieSteak.com - Discover a new world of horror films, designed just for you.

Here's the simple plot summary..."After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods in a box in a hole, and a psychopath, fighting to survive for more than forty days and asking information about her daughter to the stranger."It says its based on a true story, and wow, what an ordeal that must have been, because the movie is extremely nasty and disturbing. The short back story of Hope was an add on according to the filmmakers, they were going to start the movie with Hope waking up in a box in a grave, and you don't know who anybody is, which I actually think would have even been better. But moreorless, you still don't know who anybody is, nor do you really care, because this movie is about survival against extremely long odds. The psychopath woodsman, apparently is kidnapping women and putting them through extreme tests to hopefully for him, find one that can be his companion. After waking up, the women are placed hanging on their tiptoes tied by the neck to a tree, and a razor blade has been implanted in their stomachs. The object is, they have to dig out the razor blade through the stitches, cut the rope, and then they are free to pass his other tests. For Hope, the tests don't go much further than that, because the woodsman is impressed with her, and she learns how to cope with the madman, until she figures out a way to escape. The whole beginning credits get the movie off to a very excruciating start, as a previous woman is scene attempting to dig out the razor blade to free herself, with her guts falling out of her belly, and then pleading for the woodsman to kill her. She grabs the trigger of the shotgun in her face, and pulls the trigger, and wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, we are off to the races. It seems the woodsman doesn't actually think he is killing anybody, because he gives them a chance to survive, and if they don't, well, it's their fault for being so weak and stupid. While Hope is being held captive, the woodsman brings in another woman who does not stop crying and begging, which irritates even Hope. Simple enough, he takes a nice long hunting knife and cuts out her tongue and vocal cords. Yea boy, that will fix that problem every time. Wonder if that would have saved one of my marriages?? I'm talking about the wife of course. This movie has been compared to SAW, which is totally misleading. Nothing about the two are similar, except for maybe the tree and razor blade thing, which Jigsaw should have thought of. This movie is very good, very depressing, and even the ending which looks promising, delivers a gut punch that is totally unexpected all the way around. You see, all through this, Hope is concerned more for her daughter than herself, because her daughter disappeared with her, and the woodsman only says her daughter was too weak. The movie is never boring, and very interesting as this strange bizarre woodsman, seems to be only looking for a mate. It does not fall into that idiot genre name torture porn, which I hate, because after the initial scenes, it comes down to a cat and mouse game, with the mouse slowly figuring out how to trap the cat. This is the one with everybody saying how terrible the commentary is, and for only the few minutes I listened to it so far, it does seem to be very annoying.