Product Details

• Actors: Trent Reznor, Robin Finck, Charlie Clouser, Danny Lohner, Richard Patrick
• Directors: Ben Stokes, Brett Turnbull, Eric Goode, Eric Zimmerman, Jon Reiss
• Format: Color, Explicit Lyrics, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 2
• Studio: Lions Gate
• VHS Release Date: December 2, 1997
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (121 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1573623709
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,031 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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110 of 112 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece...............No Disappointment Here!, December 28, 1999

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"twizted" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nine Inch Nails - Closure [VHS] (VHS Tape)

As a NIN fan, you will Love and Respect Closure(Halo 12). One reason, Trent Reznor is a very discreet man and he's not very public. You don't get to see much on NIN behind the scenes. If you haven't had the pleasure of seeing NIN live, you will love Closure. Video #1 is a documentary of the guys at work on their Self Destruct Tour dated 1994-1998. Most of the footage seems to be 1994-1996. It has great Concert and behind the scenes footage. It does have a lot of flashing lights and it tends to jump around alot, but this is NIN we're talking about. It's nice to see Trent, Robin, Chris, Danny and the other guys doing their jobs. Concert footage includes: Terrible lie, Piggy, Down in it, March of the Pigs, Wish, Hurt w/David Bowie & Something I Can Never Have. Video #2 is of most of NIN's videos...including the banned Happiness in Slavery and the un-cut Down in it and Closer. The other videos included are Head like a Hole, Sin, Pinion, Wish, Help me I'm in Hell, Gave up , March of the Pigs, a triplet live of Eraser/Hurt/Wish and my absolute all time favorite, The Perfect Drug! Closure was well put together! Definitely worth 5 stars!

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sorry the review's so long - I got a little carried away ..., July 11, 2001

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Stuart Johnston - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nine Inch Nails - Closure [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The first video in this package is a collection of live performances and backstage footage. There's nothing very revealing about frontman Trent Reznor, and the sound and picture quality are, as the disclaimer warns, "compromised", but there are many choice moments, the most obvious one being David Bowie joining the band for Hurt. If you persevere through the poor sound, there is some very funny conversation - David Bowie (again) telling of a 'fan's' mix-up of Bowie and Vanilla Ice is one example.

Part 2 is a collection of all of NIN's music videos up to The Perfect Drug (with the exception of Burn, which, for completists, can be found on the second tape of the Natural Born Killers Director's Cut, and the complete Broken movie - sorry, can't help you there). It opens with a short video of A Warm Place (these instrumental videos are scattered through the collection, along with short film reels of, among other things, an elephant being electrocuted), but the first video proper is Head Like A Hole, a fairly MTV-friendly clip with jump-cuts galore. It's not exactly ground-breaking, but it does the job nicely.

The second video (Sin) is where it starts to get nasty. Those with any sort of moral objection to homosexuals smearing blood over each other should probably hit the fast-forward button. Anyone who is comfortable with explicit nudity, however, should be fine, although the meagre two-minute run time may disappoint you.

Down In It is a return to Head Like A Hole territory (it has the same director) although slightly less MTV-friendly, as it includes a dead Trent Reznor. This is the uncut version.

The next few videos make up most of the tracks (except for Last) from the Broken EP (including the instrumentals). Standouts are Wish, in which the band perform in a cage surrounded by a bloodthirsty mob trying to get in, and Help Me I Am In Hell, in which a man eats his dinner in a room filled with flies - this one may prove a little too much for people with an aversion to bugs, but it's nothing compared to Happiness In Slavery, in which "supermasochist" performance artist Bob Flannigan is tortured, ripped apart and eventually minced by a dentist's chair-esque contraption. If you have any doubts, steer clear. This was banned for a reason. PS. The video for Gave Up is not the infamous snuff video, but there is an appearance by a virtually unrecognisable Marilyn Manson.

The March Of The Pigs video is just the band performing live in a white room. The sound's not great, but it's worth it to see a manic Trent Reznor going through three microphones.

Next up is a live triplet of Eraser, Hurt and Wish. Besides the enormous projected snakes, time-lapse photography of dead foxes etc, it's really just what you'd expect. Excellent stuff, and with far better sound quality than the first video.

And now, the high point of the package (for me at least) - the uncut version of Closer, in all its perverse, disturbing glory. Its inventive images (which I'm not going to spoil for you) would be worth the asking price on their own.

Finally, The Perfect Drug, which is a little like a post-Closer cool-down. Both the song and video are superb (and the video is definitely worth seeing for Reznor's rather fetching moustache), but it's got a more cold, gothic feel. It's a shift in tone, and it works very well.

Overall, this is a superb collection, and worth buying, because if you are any kind of NIN fan, you will watch them repeatedly.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Double Video Set from NIN, March 13, 2001

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dolly_ (maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nine Inch Nails - Closure [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Video one shows concert and behind the scenes footage from the Self-Destruct tour. The behind the scenes footage has Trent and the boys bringing down an exit sign by throwing beer bottles at it, Danny Lohner in a thong, Bowie tells about getting confused with Vanilla Ice, Trent trying decide how to deal with Robin's hand injury, Jim Rose Circus among other things. Live performances are of Terrible Lie, Piggy, Down in It, March of the Pigs, the Only Time, Sanctified, Wish, Hurt (featuring Bowie) and Something I Can Never Have.

Video Two is of all of their videos previous to The Fragile besides Burn, the original March of the Pigs video (never released) and the Broken movie (if that counts as being a music video). It has Head Like a Hole, Sin, Down In It, Pinion, Wish, Help Me I'm in Hell, Happiness in Slavery, Gave Up, March of the Pigs, Eraser/Hurt/Wish (live), Closer and the Perfect Drug. Each of their videos is unique and not like any of their other ones. Marilyn Manson is in the video for Gave Up and Richard Patrick of Filter is shown in some of the early videos. Mark Romanek directed the last two videos and in my opinion, they are two of the best videos ever made. Every time I watch them, I catch something new that I hadn't noticed before.

If you are a NIN fan, you NEED to get this.