Vile is a 2011 American horror film directed by Taylor Sheridan in his directorial debut and starring Eric Jay Beck, April Matson, Akeem Smith, Greg Cipes, Maya Hazen, Heidi Mueller, and McKenzie Westmore. It follows ten kidnapped captives who have 22 hours to mount an escape from a locked room, and must endure excruciating pain in order to win their freedom. It premiered at the Film4 FrightFest on August 26, 2011 before its wide release in the United States on June 24, 2012.
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A man wakes with a machine extracting fluids from his head as his chest is torn open and salt is poured in the wound. After he dies the mysterious fluid is then converted into pills by his captor.
Couples Tony and Kai, Nick and the pregnant Tayler are on a camping trip. The group stop to help a woman, who knocks them out with a gas.
They awake in a house with other captives, where a video explains that they all have devices in their heads that extract fluid as they endure pain. If they don't experience enough to fill a bar within 22 hours, the devices will kill them. A victim named Julian attempts to remove his, but doing so instantly kills him. The rest agree to share the pain to escape.
Tensions rise as they take turns torturing each other with boiling water, drills and pliers. The first to volunteer, Greg, seems to know more than he lets on. Another captive named Tara takes it too far by killing Kai. Tony tortures Tara to death in retaliation, getting the bar to eighty percent. The group fills the bar by breaking their collarbones. Another video plays, explaining that the door will open for one person at a time as a machine removes the devices.