The Unbroken (2012/Inception DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: D Extras: D Film: C+
Sarah Campbell
had just recently moved into an apartment complex after her nasty divorce with
her ex-husband. Little does she know it
is haunted, at first she thought it was a neighborhood kid, but when the child
starts showing up inside her apartment, mysterious shattering glass, and
strange wounds, the child is obviously dead. Paired with nightmares of torture and the
child's ghost following her around, it clear he isn't letting her go until she
does what he wants and one of her neighbors, she must uncover the child's
secret or die trying in Jason Murphy’s The
Unbroken (2012).
As soon
as Sarah moves into a new neighborhood she run over a child, but when she finds
nothing be a creepy toy clown she thinks nothing of it. Turns out is a dead child with scars all over
him has chosen to haunt Sarah as his avatar, unknowing to her she begins to see
and paint visions of torture and death in her art. The only one who believes her is her charm
neighborhood handyman, the boy is saying one of her neighbors is a murderer,
but who is it and can she prove it?
This is
another ghost story, nothing is creepy as an innocent child turned into evil
though. The main character is forced/tortured
until they have not choice but to do the ghost's commands, unfortunately the
ghost child seems very limited in communication, instead of directing telling
her his problems are and what he wants he communicates and scares them with
visions and pain, but even when the main character decides to help, the film
gives it another twist at the end, but you’ll have to see it to believe it. It is called 'Unbroken' because the curse can
never be really broken and just continues to repeat with each new neighbor,
unless they can break it here. Not awful
and watchable if you are interested.
The
anamorphically enhanced image is noth8ing special and the lossy Dolby Digital
sound is a big disappointment, not well recorded and very generic. The only extra is a trailer.
- Ricky Chiang
