Notwithstanding the impressive later career of its director, Vile is a shoddily written Saw rip-off which sacrifices any kind of believable scenario to get to the gimmick. Ten people (of course it is ten) kidnapped and held in a torture chamber/house where they have to inflict pain in order to generate enough chemicals - dopamine, etc. To fill vials attached to their heads. There are several serious issues with the plot.
Early on one of the characters says - correctly - that they could probably achieve much the same result by having sex or pleasuring themselves instead of torturing each other, but this is of course ignored immediately as a suggestion, because ... no, no idea why.
The "Why" of the whole set up is never addressed. Why don't the kidnappers just torture them themselves? What is the purpose of this set-up? We never see the people responsible, apart from the mole in their midst and a talking head on a video. If they are turned on by watching it they'll be disappointed because this "Vile" film is really quite tame, not showing much gore at all.
Oh, yes, the mole. That is a whole cartload of WHY? For what reason are they there? At the end, the mole reveals that they have done the same thing with several other groups - so why do they not have ANY injuries or wounds apart from the ones they get in this session?
Having said all that, this is far from the worst film of its type, but it won't satisfy gore hounds, or people who like a good thriller, or suspense film fans. It would be a cracking team game on Taskmaster, of course.
Early on one of the characters says - correctly - that they could probably achieve much the same result by having sex or pleasuring themselves instead of torturing each other, but this is of course ignored immediately as a suggestion, because ... no, no idea why.
The "Why" of the whole set up is never addressed. Why don't the kidnappers just torture them themselves? What is the purpose of this set-up? We never see the people responsible, apart from the mole in their midst and a talking head on a video. If they are turned on by watching it they'll be disappointed because this "Vile" film is really quite tame, not showing much gore at all.
Oh, yes, the mole. That is a whole cartload of WHY? For what reason are they there? At the end, the mole reveals that they have done the same thing with several other groups - so why do they not have ANY injuries or wounds apart from the ones they get in this session?
Having said all that, this is far from the worst film of its type, but it won't satisfy gore hounds, or people who like a good thriller, or suspense film fans. It would be a cracking team game on Taskmaster, of course.