Pain (2011)

Pain: Directed by Taylor Sheridan. With Eric Jay Beck, April Matson, Akeem Smith, Greg Cipes. Four friends are kidnapped by a madman and locked in a house with six other people. Each of the captives has to endure life-threatening torture to fill a device attached to their heads or they will be trapped inside forever.

“Another cash-in in the wake of the success of the u0026quot;Sawu0026quot; movies. But that is not necessarily a bad thing. u0026quot;Vileu0026quot; turned out to be an adequate movie, actually, and it did have some pretty interesting scenes and moments that will have you curling your toes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo was the movie vile, as the title claims? Hardly, but it was a good movie in itself, and a good jab at this particular torture movie genre. But compared to the u0026quot;Sawu0026quot; movies, then it is fairly tame.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story in u0026quot;Vileu0026quot; is about a group of young people who get kidnapped and end up in a strange house where they are trapped along with another group of people. To get out of the house, they need to torture each other (or themselves) in order to collect some chemical that is released in the brain. They have to collect enough of this chemical to reach 100% before they are released.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI will say that the movie concept was interesting and well enough executed. It really helped the movie that there was a good amount of rather gruesome scenes of mutilation and torture. So there was even something to please us gore-hounds. But again, next to the inventive ways of mutilation and mayhem seen in the u0026quot;Sawu0026quot; movies, then u0026quot;Vileu0026quot; was like water in comparison.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs for the acting in the movie, well it was alright, but nothing groundbreaking or outstanding. Most of the characters tended to be generic and not really stand out from one another. The movie could have spent a bit more time on fleshing out the various characters, as to give the viewer some insight into whom was whom and what their personalities were. But then again, on the other hand, with this type of movie, the characters are merely just fodder for the grinder, so having generic characters is acceptable.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf you enjoy bloody movies that are violent and doesnu0026#39;t need to have a deeper and more meaningful storyline, then u0026quot;Vileu0026quot; might be right up your alley. I found it enjoyable because it was so simple, yet brutal in itself.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWithout revealing anything of the ending of the movie, then I found it to be a rather lame and unrealistic ending to it. It was just downright insulting to end the movie that way for us who sat through it and hoped for something better at the end.”