The Broken (2008)

Summary (no spoilers)This movie is about a radiologist Gina Mcvey who organizes a surprise birthday party for her dad inviting her whole family for the function the next day she sees herself driving a car in the street so she decides to follow her to her apartment and there she sees a picture of her and her father in this woman's place. While driving back home she meets with an accident where she loses part of her memory later she thinks Stefan (her boyfriend) is another man. So she decides to investigate what's happening to discover something dark.My Review (no spoilers)The plot was really good but the execution was bleak. Most of the parts in this movie was really confusing and arises many questions in the viewer's mind. I would not blame the actors as it was not their fault it was the way the movie was directed. Actually the ending of this movie was predictable and for supporting the genres horror and thriller not so much. NO I would not recommend people to watch this movie.My Rating 4/10

Basically, when the mirrors break, demons in the form of the five come out as doppelgängers. There must have been some sort of spontaneous seance when the five individuals were at Gina's father's house. Five is the same number as the sides of a pentacle and they were seated at a round table. I believe when Gina sees her boyfriend as a demon and she sees the others around her as demons its because her aura has been punctured and her soul fragmented, allowing entities to share her body with her own etheric body or mind body. She has a demon. She is not possessed, but she is being psychologically tormented by dreams. That's whats happening even before we get to the doppelgänger drama. She also keeps being haunted by this photo of her and her father that is scribbled out in his face area. Like he's not one of the good guys either. She finds it when she goes to see her car at the tow place. The glass isn't all smashed out of the front side of her car like she imagines. Her windshield isn't shattered. It symbolizes that she is still okay. She is still in control. Gina talks to her father about what she saw with the doppelgänger, and she says: "Why would she have a photo of you?" and he responds "Maybe its not me." Well, let's just see about that. These doppelgängers are here to kill their etheric bodies and take their bodies as vessels. This is when Gina learns that her etheric body had been killed before the crash and that she had always had this demon in her. to prove it her heart is on the wrong side now. the good gina is on the wrong side of the mirror now. the bad gina just had amnesia.

Wow, I'm a bit late coming to this film but what a corker it is. Very dark, very atmospheric, and bloody classy stuff. Yes, as some said already, it's not entirely a new idea, but it's done here with such flair it stands above others of it's ilk. Lena Headey is fantastic in this, her style of acting suits her role so well. I'm starting to think I need to search out other films she's been in now given her appearances in Dredd, Game of Thrones, and even the disappointing Purge (although she still shone in that). I'm not going to tell you what The Broken is about, I didn't know myself when I began to watch it. It's much better that way. But the cinematography is beautiful, and London takes on a creepy alternative reality with the directors fantastic use of light, slow rolling shots, and stills. Top notch psycho- horror. Loved it. The end theme is great too.

A series of strange incidents and visions has a woman believing that a psychotic stranger is invading her life, only to discover that something far more sinister is happening and she races to get it controlled before it harms her.This here turned out to be slightly better than expected but was still a pretty flawed effort. One of the main problems here is the fact that there's just no explanation for what's going on here. So much of what's going on in here is glossed over in the story, from the very identity of what the strange identical beings are to what they're doing and what started their initial appearance, this one here just doesn't provide any answers at all as to what's going on here, leaving this one very confusing. As well, there's nothing about why the beings are murderous, since that only comes about in the very later stages and the majority of the running time we're given no reason at all to think this was a horror effort with the way they interact with everyone, since this one doesn't present them as ravenous beings at all, or even what they are, so the first half of this is about these strange beings that aren't too threatening not doing much so this is just an utterly boring effort overall. It does pick up in the last half with some pretty suspenseful sequences, including two very good sequences in a bathroom that provides two different outcomes, some bloody murders and even a chilling sequence in a darkened attic with a flashlight that has some good points to this, but it's all too little too late to save this from it's other flaws.Rated R: Language, Violence, Brief Nudity and a shadowy sex scene.