Vile

Plot synopsis:
The film starts with a man on an operating table. A surgeon comes in and tortures him by cutting into his chest then pouring salt in his wound. The scene shifts to four friends, Taylor, Tony, Kai, and Nick, on a camping trip. On their way home, they stop at a gas station where an alluring stranger named Diane asks for a ride to her truck, which has run out of gas. Nick agrees, but his girlfriend Taylor is suspicious. Nick drops her off at her truck, and Diane offers to get the girls some of her perfume samples in gratitude. Diane then returns, wearing a gas mask and knocks everyone out with sleeping gas. The friends awaken to find themselves trapped in a house with a dozen other people, one of whom has already gone and ripped off Kai's nail. After a brief fight, Nick and Tony calm down and learn they have all been captured and the doors are locked. Everyone has a gadget inserted into his or her neck and they watch a video from a projector of a woman telling them they have 22 hours to escape. By doing so they must inflict harm on each other using the weapons they've been supplied with.
Every bit of suffering fills up a jar and once the jar is filled, they will be able to remove the gadgets and escape. If they fail the gadget will inject poison within their brains and kill them. One man, Julian, breaks down and removes his gadget and dies instantly. The others decide they have no choice and begin with Greg, a reporter who may know about this plan and hopes to see his son again. The group beats him and breaks off his fingernails, one girl, Tara, is especially violent and breaks his leg on the table and Greg passes out. Deciding they cannot risk injuring each other to that extent, the group agrees to torture each person up to no higher than 6 percent of the meter in a certain order. Sam is up first, and already has many mysterious wounds. After being burned on the stomach with an iron and having some fingernails ripped out it's Nick's turn. In attempt to make things easier for him, Taylor sneaks Nick some oxy pills, however this slows down the meter. While Nick is semi-unconscious,the group contemplates leaving Greg behind, as they'll need their strength to escape. Everyone agrees except for Tony, while Taylor agrees for both herself and Nick. Next on the list, is a girl named Lisa, who tries to avoid being tortured by hiding but is dragged out by Sam and Tara. Nick eventually regains his senses, and tells Taylor that he would never have opted for the group to leave Greg behind, and he can't understand why Taylor would. Taylor apologizes for the pills, saying she only meant to help Nick and reveals that she is pregnant. Tara overhears this and informs the group insisting that Taylor go anyway, but Nick volunteers to go for her.
Tara tries to stop Nick from giving the remaining pills to Greg, but Tony, fed up, knocks her out and Nick gives Greg the rest of the medication. Later on, Tony, Taylor and Kai, try to get six percent each by sticking their hands in boiling water but Kai backs down so Tony and Taylor stick their arms in the boiling water again. Meanwhile, Tara who has regained consciousness, takes a kitchen knife and tries to kill Tony for punching her. Tony is stabbed in the shoulder and falls to the floor as the boiling water spills onto his body. Tara almost manages to stab him again, but is knocked out again by Nick. Tara regains consciousness on the torture table and immediately asks what percentage the meter is at. Tony tells her that her actions raised the meter to 48%. Tara, somewhat nervous, urges them to get her shift done quickly, but Tony reveals they will be pushing higher than the usual six percent this time. Tara starts to protest that they had voted on six percent and breaks down in tears, begging to be released. But the group took another vote while she was knocked out and decided on this instead. She desperately tries to hold them back and in the process, cuts Kai, fatally wounding her. Tony, distraught and enraged tries to kill Tara but Nick convinces him to keep her alive. Tony agrees, but demands that he gets do what he wants to her, and the rest of the group agrees. Tony severely damages Tara's larynx with a wrench, removes some her skin with a grater and cuts her arms open with a knife. When Tara finally passes out, the meter is at 80%.
With little time left the remaining five agree to break their collarbones at the same time. Tony is chosen to break everyone's collar bones, but can't force himself to break Taylor's. Nick instead breaks Tony's, filling the meter to 100%. The projector flashes a new message of the woman congratulating them and instructing them to place the vials in their gadgets in the door allowing them to escape. Sam kills everyone as they leave the room, though Tony has just enough time to warn Nick before Sam stabs him in the stomach. Soon only Greg and Taylor are left in the room while Nick is unable to get back in. Greg, still under the influence of the oxy pills, admits to Taylor that he knew about this cult that feels everyone deserves pain and agony, but he never believed the rumors were true. Sam is revealed to be the one who orchestrated this scenario. Nick chases Sam into the room seen at the beginning where Sam, having removed his gadget, kills Greg with a signal sent from a computer, locking Taylor up again. Taylor tries to escape by inflicting burns on her back with a countertop grill, and hurting her already burned hand. She manages to get the meter back up to 100%. Sam, amused, admits that he was one who had suffered injuries in his life and yet survived, believing, that everyone deserves pain to be innocent. Sam then activates the device containing the poison on the back of Nick and Taylor's necks. Despite the poison, Nick is able to kill Sam with a screwdriver and takes some of the meds left in the room that counteract the poison. He also uses another device to remove the one from his neck. Nick rushes back to the room, able to see Taylor through a monitor on the screen but unable to reach her as she dies. Through heartbroken Nick uses bolt cutters to free himself from the building and escape.
Some time later, Nick is seen in a restaurant, his injuries healed, ordering waffles and cream. As he looks out the window, Nick spots Diane, hitchhiking with a redneck and goes after her, leaving money on the table. Hours later, Diane tries to offer the redneck and his wife a sample of her products, but he drives off. Diane, disappointed, heads back to her car, only to confronted by Nick, who slams her head against the car, knocking her out. Nick stuffs Diane in the back and puts on "Looks that Kill"on the radio and comments what Diane said earlier: I love this song.

Tags: violence, revenge, murder, sadist

Review:
It ain't half bad - yes there are Saw/Hostel comparisons and it fits rather aptly into the "torture-porn" genre.
It seems as though the production staff are fairly new to the game and I don't think they deserve the kind of criticism handed to them by the other (two, at the time of writing) reviews seen here.
Without giving anything away, it's a solid, tense first hour with questionable (but believable, considering the circumstances, and assuming you have an open mind) character development that would have benefited from a less ambitious attempt at a dramatic conclusion and something that's worth a watch for fans of the genre..
Simple story spiced up with some good torture scenes....
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.
It really helped the movie that there was a good amount of rather gruesome scenes of mutilation and torture.
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.
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.
On the surface, the plot of this movie would seem like another lame piece of junk written by some dumb teenager who doesn't have a clue about anything.
Many comparisons have been made to Saw and other torture movies, but really, it's not the same kind of thing at all.
The timer starts counting down and it's down to business.Further testament to the (sometimes sad) fact that I'll watch just about anything on Instant Netflix, this film has a threadbare plot, even for a torture porn film.
This film may not have the greatest of plots but for all horror gore fans it has its nice little moments, the characters are well acted and believable.
I didn't expect much from this film, but would personally rate it higher than other similar films such as hostel.If you are looking for a nice bit of gore and torture you can't go wrong with this film.
and at least it's not a group of teenage kids getting bumped off one by one and shot on a camcorder like most horror coming out of America at the moment!Here's hoping more of you out there will watch this neat little horror and they will get round to making vile 2..
Now that the Torture Porn genre has fizzled out at the box office, these films are fortunately going straight to video where they belong.
This one has an absurd plot (torturing people to obtain a body chemical that is also released during sex - that might have been an interesting film and certainly more humane!), unsympathetic characters and terrible dialogue.
At least a good half hour of the characters screaming at each other goes by before they start beating each other's brains in.
I only watched it because it was on Netflix Streaming, where a lot of terrible, direct-to-video horror movies go to die.
Not a bad Indie torture horror..
This movie was a refreshing take on the "torture/pain" style horror films like 'SAW' and alike.
The movie kept me intrigued from go to whoa, and some of the torture scenes were quite graphic.
It wasn't the typical stuff you've seen in the 'SAW' films, which in my opinion is what made it a good little Indie movie, one of the better one's to come along lately.
If you're looking for a good film to watch on a lazy day or night, then this is not a bad movie.
There are a lot of reviews for this movie that I don't think do it justice.
It's not as crazy or complex as some would like, and yes there are some unanswered questions but this movie is way more than watchable.
In the tradition of Saw and Hostel, Vile comes in with full force that you would expect in a torture porn.
You are introduced to many scenes where you don't really see any gore, just hear it but that's when your imagination takes hold and makes it all the more intense and scary.I can't say I was scared while watching this film, of course it does take a lot to scare me, but I will say I was very disturbed but in the best possible way.
So when I saw that he had actually started out his career with a horror film, and a gruesome looking one at that, I knew I had to see it.
This isn't a must-see film by any means, however if you do find yourself with the opportunity to watch it you're probably going to have a decent time (perhaps switch your brain off at the start would be my advice)..
Indie horror should have an interesting premise, solid gore, passable acting and avoid obvious stupidity.
And with the bar set low, Vile easily sails over the bar.Shockingly, the movie starts with a group of teens getting kidnapped.
However the twist is they then finding themselves in a locked house with another group of people who discover they must torture themselves to extract a drug from their brain before they can leave.
This is not a torture porn movie.
Characters have a good balance of screen time, and enough personality to create some realistic group tension.
Enjoy the build up, not the pay off.So there you have it, a solid indie horror movie with lots going for it, but some obvious pit falls that are hard to avoid.
I watched this on Netflix and all I could think was, haven't I seen this movie before?
You'll find the Saw movies to be way better..
Just the simple "torture each other and you'll get out" for the rest of the plot doesn't give anything to work with.The characters are not developed other than who are intended to be the loudest and bossiest and are all poorly acted.
this makes ''American psycho 2'' seem like a very very good movie.
one of the worst movies that I have ever seen, The acting was horrible, the sound in the movies was sh*t I couldn't understand half of it and the plot line was less than garbage....
The torture scenes weren't that bad only most of the time very ridiculous, I don't think anyone ever would get scared from this movie (maybe 8 year old).
I've seen a lot of reviews bashing this movie.
Most horror movies, you see the characters and they die and that's it.
You don't know there full background story and they could have elaborated a little bit more, but for this type of movie its just enough to feel some sort of emotion with the characters.
(Again to make this movie better they could have gone into a bit more detail).I wont go into any detail because i don't want to ruin this to anyone that has not seen it.
Its worth a watch if your into torture movies.
But this is a different kind of torture movie (Again i wont say why).
Down to a grade that barely deserves mentioning, so yeah, I had my share of torture porn movies!So would I recommend "Vile"?
Well: acting was overall satisfying, the torture methods were far more natural and humane in this one, as people would rather do, not those sick things you get to see in movies that have no idea how to impress without relying on gore/nudity/stupidity, the plot works OK, the ending is very likable and some other reasons you'll find while watching.Indeed, I was skeptic at first, really doubtful actually, but as time passed, I found myself quite involved in "Vile", as I wanted to see more, to see where its heading and what the finale brings.
And overall my friends, I was entertained!Therefore, "Vile", not your standard torture porn movie, not your usual portmanteau film, but something more natural, more close to the human nature!
I mean it bloody pom poms and all when it comes to torture porn but unfortunately this film was a complete flop.
I mean come on some of the acting was so bad, the dialogue so risible and some of the most inane decisions being made sink this film faster than the titanic.
Please avoid this film unless your into bad actors getting killed in horrific ways under a cheap hostel type vibe..
Why would u want to harm people like this.i love horror movies.
its awful it kinda makes me wanna cry just by watching it.this movie is worst than paranormal activity.they cut there fingernails off.and burned a man with an iron.they even broke one mans leg .and it was a black persons leg to be exact..
so let the torture begin.This is one incredible movie.
This movie made me wince several times as the characters tortured each other in various imaginative ways in order to produce that coveted brain juice.
I cannot blame Taylor Sheridan at all, when Saw came onto our screens it produced a new sub genre of horror the torture porn scene, but some movies do try hard to follow foot.
As an indie horror Vile had really good potential but it lost it, A group of friends Nick, Taylor, Tony and Kai are on a camping trip, whilst venturing home they stop at a gas station where they meet an attractive couger who needs a ride...
any avid horror fan will understand that this always spells disaster.Gassed out the group wake up in a small basement with 4 other people, each have a vial attached to there necks which if broken will mean immediate death.
Of course the room is filled with objects and weapons for the group to inflict pain on each other.The torture scenes are good and the right level of gore but unfortunately that's all the film has going.
Finding themselves trapped in a strange house, a group of people learn they are to be used for a process of experimental drug extraction which requires them to torture each other to produce the necessary chemicals.This one turned out to be quite the decent and barely tolerable Torture Film effort that manages to get some decent parts to this.
Where this one really falls apart, though, is in the underlying premise of the film of how it has captured and forced upon them their predicament, as the necessary chemicals to be retrieved are rather-rightly pointed out being no good from a dead person so the group's decision to stay alive and deal out the torment willingly to each of them means that there's never a danger of killing them or brutalizing them way more than necessary so all it does is simply march on to the inevitable completion of their mission which ensures their release.
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 film where people are forced to torture each other?
While there is some cleverness to this latter part, the former boils down to yet another title in the never-ending "torture porn" subgenre of horror.
While the basis for the plot is new and interesting and also has the Human Centipede/Saw gore feel to it, the actual setup to the point where the horror/gore begins is horrifyingly weak.The actors help make the film bearable, and Maya Hazen is awesome.
While the characters may seem stupid beyond belief or unrealistically smart in some cases, after watching a film like Compliance that's based on real life idiots, it's best to simply take it all in.
In short, the stupidity typically fits into the situation and is part of building the suspense/agitation.There's apparently a new category developing for films that annoy along side horror, tragedy, sex, and comedy.
That may not be a good idea for an entire film.This also works as a story in what not to do.
The incredibly successful Saw franchise gave birth to a new breed of torture type horror that many have tried to emulate but none ever come close to.
The film will make you wince, there is no doubt about, some of the torture scenes are brutal although they try (again like Saw) to leave a lot of it up to your imagination.
She's okay but she truly does get obnoxious and has a ridiculous scene where she "accidentally" scratches wildly and ends up killing a girl ridiculously severing her neck artery.The actors are not the issue with this movie, they could have likely done a better job with a much better script.
I watched it at Frightfest in 2011, which should be a good place to watch any horror movie ...
It was more torture sitting through this movie than actually being in the house itself.
The movie starts off with decent character development and promising cinematography that makes the viewer believe they're about to get their moneys worth.
Not because its been compared to other 'torture porn' films (which it isn't), but because its excrement mostly.
*Contains Spoilers!*I generally enjoy when a horror movie tries to add character depth or a plot to its gore - in fact, I usually find it pretty sad when a movie doesn't try at all, leaving you with a bunch of cardboard cutouts running around on an empty stage.But Vile *should* have left that all out, with how little actually happens thanks to the "plot" and "character development.
Only the first "gore" scene really shows/does much - beyond that, it's a scattering here and there of relatively tame gore (nothing like you'd see in Saw or one of the "name brand" horror movies).Which would all be alright if it truly mastered the psychological angle.
Instead, however, you get characters that come and go and exhibit no personality and a lousy twist ending that derails what little character development you do get.Not to mention, the one girl (yellow shirt) had such an infuriating personality that it genuinely made the first half of the movie more unpleasant..
After watching "Vile" and reading a couple of surprisingly good reviews on it, there's only one explanation: these must have been written by the producers and actors of "Vile".
First off, I'm a horror fan and I also love movies like "Saw" and "Hostel".
"Vile" is a very cheap copy of "Saw" and "Cube" but the production values are very bad: the shaky camera work gives you a headache, the script is stupid with characters that do not make any sense at all.
They are somehow forced to torture each other, because that releases a drug in the brain that the mysterious woman behind the screens wants.
You just pray the running time of this movie is limited but 88 minutes is way too long for this simple plot..
by torturing themselves and each other.The end.Yes, it really is a bad as it sounds, I really wanted to like this I did, but there are so many holes it hurts - the video tells them it needs X by doing X to each other.
The scenes of gore are good enough and not over used but the acting is just bad, bad and bad and tbh by the end I had no real idea what had happened.
I don't like to critisise movies just for being a rip off of something else, but this had nothing going for it!
We aren't supposed to be feeling sorry for the characters or thinking its tragic they are forced to harm each other.I am a fan of torture porn but this movie just had to many whiny characters for me to enjoy it, like the lame attempt by one of the woman to avoid pain by claiming she was pregnant..
This review contains spoiler, please don't read it before watching the movie.Another Saw-wannabe.
However, despite of some flashes of a good horror in the end, the first 3/4 of the movie is just simply bad.
It's almost as if that was put in the scene to say, "see how purposely stupid this movie is?" That being said, I continued to watch if for no other reason than to see how it turned out.
One of my Favorite Horror Movies!.
I've watched a lot of horror movies in my life and Vile is by far one of my favorites.
The reveal of Sam and the death of Tayler at the end is a twist I did not see coming and I'm usually pretty good at figuring out movie endings.
The way some of the scenes are shot, the best way to describe it is "poetic." It's artistic and surprisingly gentle for what is essentially a torture porn horror film.
As much as I love my Saw movies, Vile takes the cake.
The plot is simple, two groups of young adults get drugged and thrown in a basement with a device in their neck(suspend reality) to torture each other to the point of getting dopamine out of there head.Do they do it, of course they do, and will you watch, I am sure you will.The torture really isn't that bad,more suggested.The character development is virtually none existent which is not a good thing because I could see two of them having a chance to shine.Completely isolated environment,so can't say much there.I found this very tame for torture/porn so if you are expecting Saw, you may be disappointed..
This isn't a horror movie.
It's a group of people being forced to torture each other.
But if you're looking for a horror movie, keep looking.