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* VillainsWantsMercy: While Tara isn't the BigBad of the film by any stretch, she's still a ruthless maniac who mercilessly tortures the others without any guilt whatsoever. Even after accidentally killing someone, setting back their progress, and being overall antagonistic to the group, Tara still has the gall to beg them to get her session over with quickly. Needless to say, they're not in a merciful mood after everything she did.
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* AssholeVictim: Throughout the film, Tara is hysterical, petty, ruthless, self-centered and overall, the least sympathetic person trapped in this game. [[spoiler: Needless to say, it was ''very'' cathartic to see the rest of the cast strap her to the table and torture her ''way beyond'' the initially agreed 6%.]]
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''Vile'' is a 2011 American independent horror film [[FollowTheLeader in the vein of the]] ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' and ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' series, directed by Taylor Sheridan.
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''Vile'' is a 2011 American independent horror film [[FollowTheLeader in the vein of the]] ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' and ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' series. Ten strangers wake up, locked in a house in the middle of nowhere, with strange tubes attached to the backs of their heads. A video begins to play and informs them that the tubes are there to collect endorphins from the brain that will be used to produce pharmaceuticals, and that if they can collect enough, they will be set free. The only problem is that the endorphins are only produced when the human body is in extreme pain…
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''Vile'' is a 2011 American independent horror film [[FollowTheLeader in the vein of the]] ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' and ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' series. series, directed by Taylor Sheridan.
Ten strangers wake up, locked in a house in the middle of nowhere, with strange tubes attached to the backs of their heads. A video begins to play and informs them that the tubes are there to collect endorphins from the brain that will be used to produce pharmaceuticals, and that if they can collect enough, they will be set free. The only problem is that the endorphins are only produced when the human body is in extreme pain…
Ten strangers wake up, locked in a house in the middle of nowhere, with strange tubes attached to the backs of their heads. A video begins to play and informs them that the tubes are there to collect endorphins from the brain that will be used to produce pharmaceuticals, and that if they can collect enough, they will be set free. The only problem is that the endorphins are only produced when the human body is in extreme pain…
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* BlondesAreEvil: Diane, the woman who kidnaps people for the company’s “harvest,” has perfectly-maintained blonde hair.
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* [[spoiler: ShootTheShaggyDog]]: [[spoiler: Despite everyone’s efforts, they all die, except for Nick.]]
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* IronicEcho: "I love this song". First said by Diane before [[spoiler: gassing and kidnapping the protagonists]], and then [[spoiler: by Nick, after kidnapping Diane]].
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* DyeingForYourArt: Heidi Mueller is a brunette who dyed her hair [[SlashersPreferBlondes blonde]] for her role as Lisa.
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-->''"Pain will be your only way out."''
''Vile'' is a 2011 American independent horror film [[FollowTheLeader in the vein of the]] {{Saw}} and {{Hostel}} series. Ten strangers wake up, locked in a house in the middle of nowhere, with strange tubes attached to the backs of their heads. A video begins to play and informs them that the tubes are there to collect endorphins from the brain that will be used to produce pharmaceuticals, and that if they can collect enough, they will be set free. The only problem is that the endorphins are only produced when the human body is in extreme pain…
''Vile'' is a 2011 American independent horror film [[FollowTheLeader in the vein of the]] {{Saw}} and {{Hostel}} series. Ten strangers wake up, locked in a house in the middle of nowhere, with strange tubes attached to the backs of their heads. A video begins to play and informs them that the tubes are there to collect endorphins from the brain that will be used to produce pharmaceuticals, and that if they can collect enough, they will be set free. The only problem is that the endorphins are only produced when the human body is in extreme pain…
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* FinalGirl: Subverted. [[spoiler:You half expect Tayler to be the final girl, especially when it's revealed that she's pregnant and the father is present and willing to take double the harm to just to spare her. This doesn't stop her from dying in the end, though.]]
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* FinalGirl: Subverted. [[spoiler:You half expect Tayler to be the final girl, especially when it's revealed that she's pregnant and the father is present and willing to take double the harm to just to spare her. This doesn't stop her from dying in the end, though.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler]Only Nick is able to escape. Heart-broken and angry over the loss of his pregnant girlfriend, Nick ends up taking revenge against Diane at the end for kidnapping them to begin with.]]
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* FridgeHorror: The endorphins being harvested are produced in order to dull extreme pain. However, since they’re being siphoned off, the characters are in even ''more'' pain than they normally would be.
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* {{Squick}}: Too many times to count, but the repeated act of ripping off fingernails gets an honorable mention. The sound effects alone are horrifying enough, but combine them with the visuals…
** Tara’s torture is particularly squicky: [[spoiler: after the physical beating they’ve all given her, Tony takes a cheese grater to her shoulder]].
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* UncannyValley: The woman on the video who informs the hostages of their situation has face that’s just a ''little'' too long, and a mouth that shows just a ''little'' too much gum when smiling. The effect is chilling.
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* ActionGirl: Tara seems like this, usually being the first one to jump into action, but she’s really more…
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* ChekhovsGun: During the camping trip, Tayler’s shows her dolphin tattoo to the camera. [[spoiler: After Tayler dies in the house, Nick gets a dolphin tattooed on his neck in her memory.]]
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* FadeToBlack: Tara’s torture is apparently so awful that the screen cuts to black after a few seconds. The next thing you see is a shot of the progress bar, which has increased by nearly ‘’35%.’’
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* GenreBlindness: Nick doesn’t see a problem with driving a woman he just met at a creepy gas station at one in the morning to her car out in the middle of the woods. She then gases the group and kidnaps them.
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* IdiotBall: Contrary to what the woman on the video says, the endorphins needed are produced during sex as well as during pain. Sam suggests they all just have sex instead of being tortured and is quickly shot down [[{{Squick}} in disgust.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: After Tara [[spoiler: kills Kai]], the bar is at 48%. After the group gets done with her, it’s at ''85%.''
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* LaserGuidedKarma:After Tara does the majority of the torture, with absolutely no remorse for her actions. Right before she [[spoiler: kills Kai]], the bar is at 48%. After the group gets done with her, it’s at ''85%.''
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-->''"Pain will be your only way out."''
''Vile'' is a 2011 American independent horror film [[FollowTheLeader in the vein of the]] {{Saw}} and {{Hostel}} series. Ten strangers wake up, locked in a house in the middle of nowhere, with strange tubes attached to the backs of their heads. A video begins to play and informs them that the tubes are there to collect endorphins from the brain that will be used to produce pharmaceuticals, and that if they can collect enough, they will be set free. The only problem is that the endorphins are only produced when the human body is in extreme pain…
While ''Vile'' is very much a TorturePorn movie, it differs from many ''Saw'' imitators in that most of the gore is never actually shown, leaving the audience to [[TakeOurWordForIt imagine the horrors]] from the audio, others’ [[ReactionShot reactions]], and the shown aftermath.
!!''Vile'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Tara seems like this, usually being the first one to jump into action, but she’s really more…
* AxCrazy: Tara is ''ruthless.'' Over the course of the movie, she rips off multiple fingernails, crushes Greg’s diaphragm, shatters his kneecap, pours boiling water on Tony, uses a hand-crank screwdriver on Nick, stabs multiple people, and [[spoiler: accidentally slits Kai’s throat, killing her.]] And that’s just what the camera ''[[TakeOurWordForIt shows]]''.
* BlondesAreEvil: Diane, the woman who kidnaps people for the company’s “harvest,” has perfectly-maintained blonde hair.
* BodyHorror: Besides the extreme pain the characters must inflict on themselves, they wake up to find tubes wired ''directly into their brains.''.
* ChekhovsGun: During the camping trip, Tayler’s shows her dolphin tattoo to the camera. [[spoiler: After Tayler dies in the house, Nick gets a dolphin tattooed on his neck in her memory.]]
** When Sam takes off his shirt before being tortured, he is shown to already be covered in scars, burns, bruises, etc. Tara asks if he can even feel pain anymore (answer: yep, he can). [[spoiler: Later, it turns out Sam works for the company that trapped them in the house, and is planted there to guide them through the process. The events of the movie are his fifth time as a guide.]]
** When the four main characters are about to leave their camping trip, Kai hands Tayler a baggie of prescription painkillers to keep hidden in her boot, which are later used on Nick and Greg (see NiceJobBreakingItHero).
** Nick theorizes early on that the people watching them could kill them with a push of a button. [[spoiler: They do.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Tara has no problem brutalizing her peers in order to escape the house. The others are far more reluctant to hurt each other. [[spoiler: Once Tara accidentally kills Kai, however, the cast is more than happy to return the favor.]]
** The ending implies that [[spoiler: Nick is going to torture Diane in revenge.]]
** The opening scene has a surgeon cutting a man open without anesthesia and rubbing salt into the incision, while diligently collecting the vials of harvested endorphins and storing them in her centrifuge.
* {{Determinator}}: Tayler near the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Greg’s collection is disregarded by the computer, forcing Tayler to make up for the 11% loss all by herself in what little time she has left. She forces herself through the gauntlet and brings the meter back up to 100% in less than two minutes.]]
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: It takes fifteen minutes before the plot actually starts, and another fifteen before anyone gets hurt.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The group survives the house and is about to escape, until Sam murders everyone. Nick is the only one to survive.]]
* DyeingForYourArt: Heidi Mueller is a brunette who dyed her hair [[SlashersPreferBlondes blonde]] for her role as Lisa.
* FadeToBlack: Tara’s torture is apparently so awful that the screen cuts to black after a few seconds. The next thing you see is a shot of the progress bar, which has increased by nearly ‘’35%.’’
* {{Fingore}}: Greg ripping off Kai’s fingernail starts the timer. After that, every character gets a few nails ripped off during their tortures.
* FollowTheLeader: As stated above, the film has an almost identical premise to ''Saw II'': a group of strangers wake up in a house together, and must endure unimaginable pain before the clock runs out, or they will die.
* FridgeHorror: The endorphins being harvested are produced in order to dull extreme pain. However, since they’re being siphoned off, the characters are in even ''more'' pain than they normally would be.
* GenreBlindness: Nick doesn’t see a problem with driving a woman he just met at a creepy gas station at one in the morning to her car out in the middle of the woods. She then gases the group and kidnaps them.
* GenreSavvy: Tayler tells Nick that helping Diane is a bad idea, and turns out to be horribly right.
* HopeSpot: Once the characters get to 100%, a video plays informing them that they have been set free, and can leave the house.
* IdiotBall: Contrary to what the woman on the video says, the endorphins needed are produced during sex as well as during pain. Sam suggests they all just have sex instead of being tortured and is quickly shot down [[{{Squick}} in disgust.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: After Tara [[spoiler: kills Kai]], the bar is at 48%. After the group gets done with her, it’s at ''85%.''
** The last shot of the film shows [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Nick knocking out and kidnapping Diane]], the woman who kidnapped them in the first place.]]
* {{Minimalism}}: The soundtrack consists of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H56Qfczopw one song]], but it fits surprisingly well in all situations where it’s used.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Tayler slips Nick a prescription painkiller she had in her boot to try and save him from feeling the pain. It backfires and prevents his brain from producing as many endorphins, meaning the others have to torture him even more.
* PregnantHostage: Tayler is pregnant with Nick’s child, and the characters debate for a few minutes if she should still be tortured and risk harming the baby. She makes the decision to only harm her upper body, so that she can still contribute without directly harming the child.
* PunBasedTitle: "Vile" refers to both the horrible acts the characters are forced to endure, and the "vials" that they have to fill up.
* ReactionShot: A lot of scenes won’t show the torture, focusing instead on another character’s reaction to let the audience imagine how awful the pain must be.
** Played for [[MoodDissonance laughs]] at one point:
-->'''Sam:''' Just one favor…whatever you do, please don’t touch my genitals.
-->'''Lisa:''' Okay, if we’re not doing genitals, I don’t want anyone touching my face.
-->'''Tara:''' [[{{Beat}} (beat)]] Really? Are you fucking kidding me?
* [[spoiler: ShootTheShaggyDog]]: [[spoiler: Despite everyone’s efforts, they all die, except for Nick.]]
* {{Squick}}: Too many times to count, but the repeated act of ripping off fingernails gets an honorable mention. The sound effects alone are horrifying enough, but combine them with the visuals…
** Tara’s torture is particularly squicky: [[spoiler: after the physical beating they’ve all given her, Tony takes a cheese grater to her shoulder]].
* TakeOurWordForIt: While there’s plenty of blood to see, there’s just as much gore that is only implied or shown just offscreen.
** The best example of this is when Tara walks past Tayler holding a hand drill, followed by a cut to Tayler’s horrified face while Nick screams in the background.
* TorturePorn
* UncannyValley: The woman on the video who informs the hostages of their situation has face that’s just a ''little'' too long, and a mouth that shows just a ''little'' too much gum when smiling. The effect is chilling.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tara accuses Greg of being a drug dealer who sells the very substance they’re all being forced into producing, which turns out to be true. It doesn’t answer any questions about the company or what they do.
* YankTheDogsChain: The characters survive their torture with [[JustInTime only minutes to spare]], and are allowed to leave the house one at a time. [[spoiler: Sam then murders them all.]]
** Tayler especially: [[spoiler: the computer disregards Greg’s contribution after his death, forcing Tayler to make up for it on her own. She burns her wounds with peroxide, slams a door on her arm, burns herself with a waffle iron, and drives a nail through her hand, all in the span of two minutes. She satisfies the requirement and then dies from shock]].
-->''"Pain will be your only way out."''
''Vile'' is a 2011 American independent horror film [[FollowTheLeader in the vein of the]] {{Saw}} and {{Hostel}} series. Ten strangers wake up, locked in a house in the middle of nowhere, with strange tubes attached to the backs of their heads. A video begins to play and informs them that the tubes are there to collect endorphins from the brain that will be used to produce pharmaceuticals, and that if they can collect enough, they will be set free. The only problem is that the endorphins are only produced when the human body is in extreme pain…
While ''Vile'' is very much a TorturePorn movie, it differs from many ''Saw'' imitators in that most of the gore is never actually shown, leaving the audience to [[TakeOurWordForIt imagine the horrors]] from the audio, others’ [[ReactionShot reactions]], and the shown aftermath.
!!''Vile'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Tara seems like this, usually being the first one to jump into action, but she’s really more…
* AxCrazy: Tara is ''ruthless.'' Over the course of the movie, she rips off multiple fingernails, crushes Greg’s diaphragm, shatters his kneecap, pours boiling water on Tony, uses a hand-crank screwdriver on Nick, stabs multiple people, and [[spoiler: accidentally slits Kai’s throat, killing her.]] And that’s just what the camera ''[[TakeOurWordForIt shows]]''.
* BlondesAreEvil: Diane, the woman who kidnaps people for the company’s “harvest,” has perfectly-maintained blonde hair.
* BodyHorror: Besides the extreme pain the characters must inflict on themselves, they wake up to find tubes wired ''directly into their brains.''.
* ChekhovsGun: During the camping trip, Tayler’s shows her dolphin tattoo to the camera. [[spoiler: After Tayler dies in the house, Nick gets a dolphin tattooed on his neck in her memory.]]
** When Sam takes off his shirt before being tortured, he is shown to already be covered in scars, burns, bruises, etc. Tara asks if he can even feel pain anymore (answer: yep, he can). [[spoiler: Later, it turns out Sam works for the company that trapped them in the house, and is planted there to guide them through the process. The events of the movie are his fifth time as a guide.]]
** When the four main characters are about to leave their camping trip, Kai hands Tayler a baggie of prescription painkillers to keep hidden in her boot, which are later used on Nick and Greg (see NiceJobBreakingItHero).
** Nick theorizes early on that the people watching them could kill them with a push of a button. [[spoiler: They do.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Tara has no problem brutalizing her peers in order to escape the house. The others are far more reluctant to hurt each other. [[spoiler: Once Tara accidentally kills Kai, however, the cast is more than happy to return the favor.]]
** The ending implies that [[spoiler: Nick is going to torture Diane in revenge.]]
** The opening scene has a surgeon cutting a man open without anesthesia and rubbing salt into the incision, while diligently collecting the vials of harvested endorphins and storing them in her centrifuge.
* {{Determinator}}: Tayler near the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Greg’s collection is disregarded by the computer, forcing Tayler to make up for the 11% loss all by herself in what little time she has left. She forces herself through the gauntlet and brings the meter back up to 100% in less than two minutes.]]
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: It takes fifteen minutes before the plot actually starts, and another fifteen before anyone gets hurt.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The group survives the house and is about to escape, until Sam murders everyone. Nick is the only one to survive.]]
* DyeingForYourArt: Heidi Mueller is a brunette who dyed her hair [[SlashersPreferBlondes blonde]] for her role as Lisa.
* FadeToBlack: Tara’s torture is apparently so awful that the screen cuts to black after a few seconds. The next thing you see is a shot of the progress bar, which has increased by nearly ‘’35%.’’
* {{Fingore}}: Greg ripping off Kai’s fingernail starts the timer. After that, every character gets a few nails ripped off during their tortures.
* FollowTheLeader: As stated above, the film has an almost identical premise to ''Saw II'': a group of strangers wake up in a house together, and must endure unimaginable pain before the clock runs out, or they will die.
* FridgeHorror: The endorphins being harvested are produced in order to dull extreme pain. However, since they’re being siphoned off, the characters are in even ''more'' pain than they normally would be.
* GenreBlindness: Nick doesn’t see a problem with driving a woman he just met at a creepy gas station at one in the morning to her car out in the middle of the woods. She then gases the group and kidnaps them.
* GenreSavvy: Tayler tells Nick that helping Diane is a bad idea, and turns out to be horribly right.
* HopeSpot: Once the characters get to 100%, a video plays informing them that they have been set free, and can leave the house.
* IdiotBall: Contrary to what the woman on the video says, the endorphins needed are produced during sex as well as during pain. Sam suggests they all just have sex instead of being tortured and is quickly shot down [[{{Squick}} in disgust.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: After Tara [[spoiler: kills Kai]], the bar is at 48%. After the group gets done with her, it’s at ''85%.''
** The last shot of the film shows [[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Nick knocking out and kidnapping Diane]], the woman who kidnapped them in the first place.]]
* {{Minimalism}}: The soundtrack consists of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H56Qfczopw one song]], but it fits surprisingly well in all situations where it’s used.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Tayler slips Nick a prescription painkiller she had in her boot to try and save him from feeling the pain. It backfires and prevents his brain from producing as many endorphins, meaning the others have to torture him even more.
* PregnantHostage: Tayler is pregnant with Nick’s child, and the characters debate for a few minutes if she should still be tortured and risk harming the baby. She makes the decision to only harm her upper body, so that she can still contribute without directly harming the child.
* PunBasedTitle: "Vile" refers to both the horrible acts the characters are forced to endure, and the "vials" that they have to fill up.
* ReactionShot: A lot of scenes won’t show the torture, focusing instead on another character’s reaction to let the audience imagine how awful the pain must be.
** Played for [[MoodDissonance laughs]] at one point:
-->'''Sam:''' Just one favor…whatever you do, please don’t touch my genitals.
-->'''Lisa:''' Okay, if we’re not doing genitals, I don’t want anyone touching my face.
-->'''Tara:''' [[{{Beat}} (beat)]] Really? Are you fucking kidding me?
* [[spoiler: ShootTheShaggyDog]]: [[spoiler: Despite everyone’s efforts, they all die, except for Nick.]]
* {{Squick}}: Too many times to count, but the repeated act of ripping off fingernails gets an honorable mention. The sound effects alone are horrifying enough, but combine them with the visuals…
** Tara’s torture is particularly squicky: [[spoiler: after the physical beating they’ve all given her, Tony takes a cheese grater to her shoulder]].
* TakeOurWordForIt: While there’s plenty of blood to see, there’s just as much gore that is only implied or shown just offscreen.
** The best example of this is when Tara walks past Tayler holding a hand drill, followed by a cut to Tayler’s horrified face while Nick screams in the background.
* TorturePorn
* UncannyValley: The woman on the video who informs the hostages of their situation has face that’s just a ''little'' too long, and a mouth that shows just a ''little'' too much gum when smiling. The effect is chilling.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tara accuses Greg of being a drug dealer who sells the very substance they’re all being forced into producing, which turns out to be true. It doesn’t answer any questions about the company or what they do.
* YankTheDogsChain: The characters survive their torture with [[JustInTime only minutes to spare]], and are allowed to leave the house one at a time. [[spoiler: Sam then murders them all.]]
** Tayler especially: [[spoiler: the computer disregards Greg’s contribution after his death, forcing Tayler to make up for it on her own. She burns her wounds with peroxide, slams a door on her arm, burns herself with a waffle iron, and drives a nail through her hand, all in the span of two minutes. She satisfies the requirement and then dies from shock]].
