". The torture machine can be seen in the center, with
Trent Reznor near the far wall. The film begins with a person being executed by
hanging. The trap door opens and the person drops with a serene smile on his face. The movie then cuts to footage of an amateur video taken from inside a car going through various parts of a city, from the middle-class suburbs to, literally, the other side of the tracks into a shoddy industrial area. Well this happening you can see the “n” from the broken album and the work “Broken” on the screen, The car then approaches a young man on the sidewalk. Almost immediately, he is suddenly seen in a basement, tied with a seatbelt to a chair and
cleave-gagged while being forced to watch a television. The music video for "Pinion" begins to play. It begins in a bathroom. The camera zooms in on a toilet flushing, and a network of pipes is shown leading to a contraption with a large gear system and a
pressure gauge on it. As the camera zooms out, a tight plastic
bodybag-like suit suspended in a
padded cell with six rods by the side is shown, with the end of the pipes attached to the mouth portion with water gushing in, presumably to drown the person inside. An alternative interpretation is that the person bound inside is being fed the "waste of the world" coming through the pipes. Cutting back to the amateur video, the killer, wearing some sort of leather mask, pulls the victim's head back and forces him to drink some sort of liquid from a
jerrycan. The middle of the music video for "
Wish" is again interrupted by amateur footage, showing the victim chained to a table with a large wad of a dark substance on his face. As the killer is then seen putting his pants on, it is usually assumed that the substance is feces. After the video ends, the killer repeatedly rewinds to the part of the music video where
Trent Reznor screams "
fist fuck!" and begins to rub his fist. The video for "Help Me I Am in Hell" shows a middle-aged man in a room filled with flies. He ignores them while eating steak and drinking wine, despite the fact that the flies enter his mouth while he eats. The video cuts away several times to show the same man in bondage gear. This video was blacked out in the most prominent leak, and also was not known to exist until the release of
Closure. it is now generally believed (although not proven) to also be part of the complete film, but was blacked out by Reznor in the bootlegged copy. Reznor later admitted to distributing different copies of
Broken to his friends, each with a different part of the video blacked out so that he would be able to
identify the culprit if it were to be leaked. Following the music video, the victim is shown still tied to a table as the killer proceeds to rip his teeth out. The video for "
Happiness in Slavery", which was banned by music video channels worldwide, begins. The most widely known part of the movie, it features performance artist
Bob Flanagan stripping off his clothes and settling down on a machine that tortures, rapes, and kills him before grinding him up to fertilize a patch of soil beneath the machine. The film ends with the music video for "
Gave Up", which is a different video from the one on
Closure as it is not an actual Nine Inch Nails video but rather the band's music dubbed over the storyline of the movie. At this point, the victim is suspended from the ceiling and is repeatedly attacked by the perpetrator, first with a blade and then a blowtorch, after which the killer
slices off the victim's penis with a
straight razor, while footage of police searching through the basement and finding remains of previous victims is shown. Finally, the film cuts back to the victim strapped on a table, as the murderer hacks his limbs off with a chainsaw, rapes him, and slices his chest open to eat his heart. The film then cuts back to the execution scene, again showing the killer being dropped through the trap door with a smile on his face. He falls through an immensely long tunnel until the rope suddenly tightens. The “n” in orange then comes on the screen, 30 seconds after the film ends, with no audio and a black screen, the severed head of the killer flies across the screen. Ending with it Saying “Copyright 1993,
Interscope Records” ==Cast and crew==