Vile (2011)

A group of friends stop to pick up a hitchhiking woman only to end up getting drugged by her with a gas. They awaken to find that vials have been implanted in the base of their skulls - ... See full summary »

Director:

Taylor Sheridan

Writers:

Eric Jay Beck, Rob Kowsaluk

Stars:

Eric Jay Beck, April Matson, Akeem Smith

Cast

Credited cast:
Eric Jay Beck	...	Nick
April Matson	...	Tayler
Akeem Smith	...	Tony
Heidi Mueller	...	Lisa
Maya Hazen	...	Tara
Rob Kirkland	...	Greg
McKenzie Westmore	...	Diane
Ian Bohen	...	Julian
Kieron Elliott	...	Thomas
Artie Baxter	...	Brent
Mark Hengst	...	Chuck
Maynard James Keenan	...	Special Agent Ford
Stefanie Barboza	...	Kelly
Maria Olsen	...	Woman on TV
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ceilidh Lamont	...	Surgeon

Storyline

A group of friends stop to pick up a hitchhiking woman only to end up getting drugged by her with a gas. They awaken to find that vials have been implanted in the base of their skulls - which are of course instantly fatal if they are removed, a grinning professional looking woman informs them on TV screens that they have 22hrs to fill these vials with a specific amount of brain fluid, a fluid that is produced during times of extreme pain. Along with another group of unlucky test subjects and with time ticking away they decide to work together and share the burden of reaching their painful target.

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Plot Keywords:

knocked out | sadism | eavesdropping | boiling pot | involuntary experiment subject | 

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for brutal violence, torture and language throughout

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 July 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Pain

Company Credits

Production Co:

Tony-Seven Films, Vile Entertainment

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The chemicals being collected, Adrenaline, Dopamine, and Oxytocin, are released when the body is in extreme pain. But like Sam suggested, they're also released during sex. So instead of torturing themselves, the members of the group could've just had sex with each other to fill up the vials.

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Soundtracks

"Running Home"
Written by Phillip Roebuck
Performed by Phillip Roebuck

User Reviews

Simple story spiced up with some good torture scenes...

Another cash-in in the wake of the success of the "Saw" movies. But that is not necessarily a bad thing. "Vile" turned out to be an adequate movie, actually, and it did have some pretty interesting scenes and moments that will have you curling your toes.

So was the movie vile, as the title claims? Hardly, but it was a good movie in itself, and a good jab at this particular torture movie genre. But compared to the "Saw" movies, then it is fairly tame.

The story in "Vile" is about a group of young people who get kidnapped and end up in a strange house where they are trapped along with another group of people. To get out of the house, they need to torture each other (or themselves) in order to collect some chemical that is released in the brain. They have to collect enough of this chemical to reach 100% before they are released.

I will say that the movie concept was interesting and well enough executed. It really helped the movie that there was a good amount of rather gruesome scenes of mutilation and torture. So there was even something to please us gore-hounds. But again, next to the inventive ways of mutilation and mayhem seen in the "Saw" movies, then "Vile" was like water in comparison.

As for the acting in the movie, well it was alright, but nothing groundbreaking or outstanding. Most of the characters tended to be generic and not really stand out from one another. The movie could have spent a bit more time on fleshing out the various characters, as to give the viewer some insight into whom was whom and what their personalities were. But then again, on the other hand, with this type of movie, the characters are merely just fodder for the grinder, so having generic characters is acceptable.

If you enjoy bloody movies that are violent and doesn't need to have a deeper and more meaningful storyline, then "Vile" might be right up your alley. I found it enjoyable because it was so simple, yet brutal in itself.

Without revealing anything of the ending of the movie, then I found it to be a rather lame and unrealistic ending to it. It was just downright insulting to end the movie that way for us who sat through it and hoped for something better at the end.