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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 and brother of FilterFilter is an industrial rock band that gained some mainstream acceptance in the 1990s, along with similar artists like Garbage and Marilyn Manson. Richard Patrick and Brian Liesegang formed the band in 1993, releasing Short Bus in 1995. The album was a hi 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 cultureAlternative culture is a catch-all phrase used to describe a variety of separate loosely related or completely unrelated cultures and sub-cultures that are outside of the mainstream culture or are percieved as being such. Despite popular belief, there is. The original hand-dubbed tapes were distributed by Reznor to various friends and dominatrixesA dominatrix is a woman who takes the dominant role in sado-masochistic sexual practices. The male equivalent is a dominant or master . Although most dominatrices are not professional dominants (" pro dommes"), and only dominate people that they are in a, and original tapes are hard to come by. A future release seems unlikely, but it is available on some Nine Inch Nails fansiteA Fansite or fan site is a website created and maintained by the fans or devotees of a particular cultural phenomenon. The phenomenon can be a book, a television show, movie, comic book, person, or any number of alternative items. See also Fan art Fan fics 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.
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