The Brøken (After Dark Horrorfest III Review)

Plot
Gina McVey, a successful radiologist, spots a woman who looks exactly like her driving down a busy street in London. She trails her double and soon finds herself immersed in a surreal landscape of mind-bending nightmares and inexplicable events.

Jason's Thoughts
I finally decided it was time to start the third annual After Dark Horrorfest and by reading the description of this movie, I figured I was in for a treat when I sat down to watch The Brøken. The doppelganger premise sounded decent, and to help matters out, the movie was shot well and the music is great, but it was just too slow and drawn out for my tastes.

I don't mind slow movies, as a matter of fact, I enjoy watching them every now and then for a change of pace, however, it is the pace of The Brøken that ruined it for me. Watching this movie is like putting a pot of water on the stove that never comes to a boil. There is very little dialog in the movie and the music seems to play tricks on you where you think something is going to happen, yet it never does.

While I do applaud the style and visuals of the movie, I was starting to get painful to watch the camera slowly pan around, almost to the point of trying to fill time. There was one scene in particular where the main character, Gina McVey, walked around a subway station for what seemed to be 20 minutes only to build up the suspense a little bit before being let down once again.

Of course, it really wasn't 20 minutes long, but even a five minute scene seemed like an eternity in this movie.

If the director would have trimmed some of they stylistic fat, quickened the pace a bit and added in some meaningful dialog to help move the story along, The Brøken could have been a gem of a psychological horror film. Instead, it was a movie that delivered very few chills and seemed to last longer than five hours instead of the actual 88 minute run time.

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