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Vile (2011)

Horror | 90 minutes
2,44 86 votes

Genre: Horror

Duration: 90 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Taylor Sheridan

Stars: Eric Jay Beck, April Matson and Akeem Smith

IMDb score: 4,8 (7.074)

Releasedate: 25 August 2011

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Vile plot

"Give Till It Hurts."

Nick, his girlfriend Tayler and two friends return from a few days camping. When they have to refuel in the evening, they are approached by a woman who pretends to be different than she is. The youngsters are overpowered and wake up in a room from which no escape seems possible. There is, however, another group of people present. The only chance of survival is based on a social-psychological experiment and producing a substance that the body produces when it is exposed to pain.

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Insignificance

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A torture porn concoction that never comes to a boil. Unless you bring the pan of water. Delivers a scene that should really set it on fire, but doesn't happen at all and is abruptly ended. Typical for the film, which fails to achieve anything on any level. The hook of Vile will be that it has victims who have to torture each other.

Then you would have to do something with group dynamics and such, but the cast is not prepared for that and the scenario also reveals itself quickly. Who is who or who will be, is very clear. It does not have an oppressive atmosphere with this hustle and bustle. Visually a rather dull, wobbly affair with strange transitions and strange music choices.

Gorehounds don't really get their money's worth either. What they do to each other sometimes has something juicy (however stupid, I had to laugh at that slicer), but it is often the suggestion that has to do it together with the sound. The biggest pain that Sheridan causes with his film is that it seems to have no end. And that for less than ninety minutes.

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john mcclane 2

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The tone is immediately set by opening with a torture scene involving a man on some sort of operating table who is putting baking soda into a large wound.

rough and short.

Then the title (I started watching with a blank slate, I didn't know what to expect)

And the title is Vile, which among other things stands for despicable, mean and base.

then you know what time it is, time for torture horror. And you set the bar quite high for that genre.

The idea is that extreme pain produces a substance, and that when enough of this substance is released, a reward follows.

It could be a slightly more complex jigsaw assignment.

So the comparison with Saw is quickly made.

But it isn't. The acting is subpar, it's sloppy shooting, and I was done with it after an hour.

Miraculously, director Taylor Sheridan did have something in him (which you can't find anywhere here) because 6 years later he made the excellent thriller Wind River with Jeremy Renner.

The torture scenes (I like to see a torture horror from time to time) were not impressive at all.

There was almost no good make-up or special FX involved.

And the idea was actually enough after an hour, I was done with it.

The concept itself with the pain substance could have worked just fine.

but I didn't like it,

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james_cameron

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Filthy, unsavory torture porn by director Taylor Sheridan, who would later come into his own as the creator of Wind River and the television series Yellowstone. After a very bad and mainly amateurish start, the film actually becomes quite exciting and intense, although this is more due to the clever concept than to the execution of the whole, which leaves much to be desired. Not much more than a second-rate Saw clone, therefore. Funny detail: Maynard James Keenan, the singer of the band Tool, has a small role (not that I recognized him); Sheridan would later use a song by the band in the pilot episode of Yellowstone.

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