Vile (2012)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Absolutely the worst movie.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Some randomly selected people wake up to find themselves in a house with contraptions stuck to the back of their heads. Now, I know what you're thinking: "This is another Saw or Saw-like movie in which they are all part of some elaborate death trap and they have to figure it out or die." No, that's not what this movie is. They were all there to provide a critical component from their brains to create the hottest drug on the market. Except, the only way to get this particular fluid from the brain was through pain. They all had a quota and 24 hours to meet that quota... so let the torture begin.This is one incredible movie. I was thinking about this movie long after it was over. 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. Unfortunately for them their choices were very limited: suffer through pain or die. This was a cool, thrilling under-the-radar horror film.

Vile is what indie horror should be. With that said, this is not an amazing movie, but it does the genre right. 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. Interesting premise – check.The horror is both physical and psychological. Could you torture yourself via burning iron, finger nail pulling etc? What would you do? All good questions, and often the characters come to the same conclusions (eventually) as I may have. When the audience does see gore, it is very tactfully done, looking real, but not over blown. This is not a torture porn movie. Solid gore – check.The actors are solid, characters are interesting enough, and create some marginally engaging dynamics. Characters have a good balance of screen time, and enough personality to create some realistic group tension. The directing is also solid, although some of the sub plots might have been expanded on more clearly. Acting – check.The obvious stupidity is questionable. The premise is good, but as the cliché goes, there are enough plot holes to drive a truck through. These lead into an ending that predictably is a letdown. I could not think of an ending that would be much better. The movie just kind of locks itself in. This is common with indie horror, so I mostly gave it a pass. 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. Sometimes as a director, to get characters into situations you want them in, you just have to hope an audience overlooks some obvious trucks.

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). There are no actual scary parts only a few ''gross'' parts and those ''gross'' parts aren't even that gross. The acting sometimes was very funny I have to give credit for that, especially one of the blond chicks (don't know who is who) her acting was certainly the worst. the Asian girl, she screams really funny. The kinda hippie guy who is just a total *beep* character And the Token Black guy who almost acted like Mac from It's always sunny, in the episode where he plays Roger Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon "

This review contains spoiler, please don't read it before watching the movie.Another Saw-wannabe. The joke is, it could have been good. But it wasn't and the background story is to blame for that because it's just so utterly stupid. I almost decided to stop watching after 20 minutes, but now I don't regret that I didn't because the last like 20 minutes drew my rating up from a massive 0 to an almost decent 4 stars. In this 20-30 minutes there were true emotions, smartly controlled gore and an ending that was an age-old cliché but not the one I expected. However, despite of some flashes of a good horror in the end, the first 3/4 of the movie is just simply bad. Why? Let's see: A crazy doctor kidnaps people to extract chemicals from their brains that are only produced when the body experiences pain. These chemicals are collected in small vials attached to people's back through some mechanical device inserted to their brains. The ultimate goal is to produce some bad-ass drug of these chemicals. Why is it indescribably stupid? Well, I'm not a doctor, but inserting that stuff to their heads probably required some major kind of surgery, yet they are OK. When they start torturing each other, these substances start to be produced immediately in visible amounts and get collected in those vials and their amount is precisely monitored. Seriuosly? How? This is so impossible. A piece of advice: consult experts before start shooting a movie. It's okay if the thing is not entirely correct, but it's so evidently stupid for non-expert viewers too that it ruins the whole thing before it starts.And, if it wouldn't have been enough, people just jump so quickly to accept that there is no other way out. Well, a guy I've never seen before says we are perfectly sealed. Will I trust a stranger with all my heart and mind and not go check it myself? Unlikely. They have all sorts of stuff around, so spending some time trying to figure something out wouldn't have hurt. Some hesitation before starting to gladly torture each other would've been nice too. And don't try to convince me that beating a guy half dead and breaking many of their bones will provide just twice as much stuff than an iron burn and 2 fingernails ( I mean, let's skip the fact that this whole part is just stupid). And that a painkiller, no matter how strong it is, starts to work in 10 seconds. And so on.Bottom line: you can live without this.