Sorry. My mistake. Although, I'm pretty sure that a movie about this fine gentleman on the cover of this terrific album would be 50 times better than this piece of generic gory garbage:
Is that a fingernail or a tooth? The world may never know.
I need to start this with a bit of history. In 2004, James Wan released a little movie that I'm sure you all have heard of called Saw. The movie was met with incredible reviews and raked in an astonishing amount of money despite the fact that it had one of the worst plot twists I've ever seen. Ever since the success of Saw, small time horror producers have been trying seriously too hard to copy that success by taking the "let's fill the movie with as much blood and gore as possible" aspect of the film, but leaving out the good storyline and suspense. There have been countless movies that have tried to scare us silly by including severely disturbing gore scenes and absolutely nothing else. Vile is one of those movies.
Oh, it was a fingernail after all. Gooooood.
This movie has the honor of being one of the only movies to make me say out loud "That is STUPID!" when I saw the main point of the plot. Here's how this movie goes: 10 strangers wake up in an abandoned house (how they got there doesn't matter at all, trust me) and they have to endure excruciating pain in order to escape with their lives. Hey, that plotline sounds pretty familiar......
OH, F*CK YOU!
Aside from the horribly obvious stolen plotline, there is a bit of a twist to how the strangers are supposed to deal their pain. They have little machines attached to the backs of their necks that drain the adrenaline right out of their brain when they experience pain. How much adrenaline is drained depends on how painful the experience is. The lady on the TV who is apparently in control of all this says that the adrenaline is used as the main ingredient of a new street drug. Ok? That's a really weak plot and I severely doubt that that drug will be on the streets for long because of how hard it would be to manufacture. Whatever. The people each take turns beating up on each other, ripping their fingernails off (which is the main selling point of this movie, btw), and dipping their arms in boiling water.
That's 212 degrees Fahrenheit, people.
That's pretty much the entire movie. There's a tacked on subplot about one of the girls being pregnant and trying to use that as an excuse to not go through any pain, but they don't stay on that subject for long. As it is with all of these movies, most of the people die and only a couple of them make it out alive in the end, but nobody is safe from the Retard Twist! That's right! The Retard Twist: when a movie has a twist ending that comes out of nowhere with no explanation which makes absolutely no sense at all! I won't give away what happens, but trust me when I say that it was completely unnecessary and it severely pissed me off.
This movie was pretty bad, but I have to admit, a few of the gore scenes did make me squirm a bit. However, that is the ONLY good thing about this movie. Let's take a minute to talk about the acting. There was none. Every single actor in this thing was a cardboard plank with absolutely no emotion until they start freaking out about something, which is when they begin to overact worse than I've ever seen in any other movie. It's like a volcano of shouting and unnecessary body movements. They even overact when they're doing the whole "I'm gonna be brave and take leadership and volunteer myself to go so we can just get out of here" thing! If you're looking for a good gore flick, I'd highly suggest that you look elsewhere. This movie gets 3 stoner characters who turn out to be masochists (seriously, that happened) out of a possible 10, just because I liked a few pieces of gore they showed.
Psst! You might wanna watch A Serbian Film instead!
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