Directed by:
Taylor SheridanCinematography:
Stewart YostCast:
April Matson, Greg Cipes, Heidi Mueller, Maya Hazen, Ian Bohen, Kieron Elliott, Elisha Skorman, Maria Olsen, Eric Jay Beck, McKenzie Westmore, Akeem SmithPlots(1)
Fifty years ago Yale University professor Stanley Milgram held a series of social experiments based on Nazi war criminals psychology. They were devised to answer a simple question: how far are people willing to go when instructed by authority? Nick, his girlfriend Tayler and their two best friends are about to find out. Abducted after a camping trip, they wake up in an unknown prison with two vials wired into the base of their skulls. They are not alone: another four people are in the same nightmarish predicament. Their task, set by a mysterious video figure, is to fill the vials with chemicals that the human body only creates when it senses pain. A lot of pain. (Anchor Bay Films)
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I feel necessary to reject this film with a categorical NO. The moment it starts to grind, Vile is no longer a horror film, not only in terms of art and the result of a creative process, but also as mere fun. A recycled plot and an empty script. The problematic premise of procuring raw materials for the production of drugs doesn’t say much about anything, it’s just a gimmick to justify what is basically gratuitous violence. The amount of violence and pain is actually already set and the story can not move forward until the characters fulfil it. Perhaps a couple of years ago I would have given it an average rating for the craftsmanship, but I’m no longer into torture porn. Boring, boring without sense.
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The film Vile is especially for those who like violence against people in a horror. I don't mind movie violence, but I was somehow hoping the story would be more interesting overall, but it collapsed into violence for the sake of violence, even though one could expect more interpersonal conflict. Based on other reviews, I was expecting this to be an interesting, gritty piece. It's not that interesting. Here, it would be worth playing more with the story.
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