jtindahouse Taylor Sheridan, director of 'Vile', has gone on to make some absolutely sensational films in the last few years including one of 2017's best 'Wind River'. 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. It's safe to say he hadn't quite perfected his art just yet, however there are certainly glimpses of what his potential was. He didn't write it, so it's hard to say just how much of an impact he had on 'Vile'. And while it's hard to argue that there are a lot of flaws in this movie, there are also some real positives to it.The negatives lie mostly in the writing. The whole concept is a rather bizarre one and takes a massive suspension of belief to get your head around. The characters feel like they simply accept the situation they're in far too easily. Also the dialogue ranges greatly throughout the film from really charming and natural, to unbearable campy and unrealistic. There were two writers of this film so that could have had something to do with it.The positives are basically the concept. It allows so much freedom for the story to flow and for the audience to be shocked. Every character needing to be tortured by their fellow characters. It's a writers dream. There are some unbearable scenes in this film to watch. I have a pretty high tolerance level and even so found myself turning away at certain moments. 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).

Poptart_Psycho 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. Typically you always have one cocky dude who thinks he can break it and has a premature death.Then a woman comes on a screen to explain what the group need to do in order to survive... They have 22 hours to fill up the vials in their neck with the brain fluid that leaks when you experience pain. 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

yeagger *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. Most of the movie is boring, with more gore happening off screen (or being left to the imagination) than happening /on screen/. You see girls scream and cry, covered in blood - but no context as to why. You see men claim they can take "no more", when all you see are a bunch of tools flying their direction. 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.

benegesserit20 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.