An ambitious yet not-entirely-successful endeavor...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 21, 2017

Ellis unblushingly borrows from older movies, from the famous (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) to the little known (Roger Moore chiller The Man Who Haunted Himself), but he does conjure up a spine-chilling frisson all his own when anyone passes a mirror.

| Sep 7, 2013

While the film might not work for fans of today's faster-paced horror/thrillers, The Broken is a creepy little pot boiler that's likely to get under the skin of many horror fans.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 16, 2011

The Brøken may offer a somewhat derivative resolution, but it gets there via an aptly fractured narrative, intertwining two radically different kinds of story type to disorienting effect.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2010

This rather nutty thriller begins to fall apart the more it tries to explain its premise, but it maintains a terrific sense of suspense right to the end

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2010

This film looks good, is capably acted and builds excellent atmosphere. And then it gets lost, and so do we.

Full Review | Original Score: 64/100 | May 13, 2009

A slick but unscary spine-chiller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2009

Occasionally scary, often laughably portentous, never explained.

| Feb 5, 2009

An extremely stylish, emotionally aloof film that lacks a strong enough story to create a great horror yarn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2009

Part mystery, part horror, it keeps us wondering what the hell is going on, while the sombre lensing ups the air of menace. The silly finale undoes a lot of the fine work, though.

| Jan 30, 2009

Writer-director Sean Ellis is influenced by M. Night Shyamalan, and manages an approximation of both Shyamalan's habitual look and whispery melodramatics.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2009

The tedium is almost as annoying as the sound effects.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 30, 2009

The Brøken is interesting and confident in some ways, though laden down with unfinished moods, images, ideas - and a few scary-movie cliches. It looks like a short film pumped up to feature length.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2009

Pompous and dour attempt at a psychological horror movie.

Full Review | Jan 30, 2009

With a nod and a wink to Edgar Allan Poe and Hitchcock he has created a slick, supernatural thriller set in a cold and disquietingly quiet contemporary London.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2009

A slick if derivative concept is well served by cold, grey cinematography and a chilling sense of shadowy menace.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2009

A cerebral horror that's more creepily unsettling than out-and-out scary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2009

Mr Ellis has some visual flair. He builds up a menacing atmosphere, and there are a few nasty shocks. However, he seems to have no sense at all of pace or humour. His screenplay is terrible.

| Jan 30, 2009

This stylishly-shot psycho-thriller from Sean Ellis is a creditable stab at the horror genre, but it lacks pace and plot. There's not enough blood 'n' gore for horror fans, while thriller admirers may find it too slow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2009

This is hardly a horror classic because it takes so damn long for anything to happen. And when it does, the ideas aren't built upon, leaving you with the feeling the script is two or three rewrites away from a final draft.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2009