The Broken(2008)
2008 · Sean Ellis · 93 min
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.
Thriller · Drama · Horror
5.4224 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
1/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How The Broken scares
It opens like a moody drama about a woman's ordinary life before quietly tipping into something wrong, and it never speeds up into a typical horror rhythm — the dread just keeps thickening. There's no big chase or splashy violence here; the fear comes from mirrors, doubles, and the creeping sense that reality itself is coming loose. It plays out cold and clinical, more unsettling than thrilling, and it's built for people who like their horror quiet, strange, and hard to explain afterward rather than jumpy or bloody.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The Broken rates psychological 5/5, visceral 2/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 1 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 12 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 40 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 75 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow, eerie unraveling that builds steadily into a disorienting, tense back half without ever fully exploding.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4.
How scary is The Broken?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, The Broken rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be restrained with gore and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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