Vile (2011)
Directed by Taylor Sheridan
A group of people awaken to find themselves prisoners in a mysterious house with no means of escape. They are each outfitted with electronic devices attached to the base of their skulls. The chemicals that the brain produces when in pain are collected by the devices, and when it collects a predetermined amount, the doors will be opened. In order to escape, they must hurt themselves and each other.
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On what is his second feature as director (following the low-budget horror-flick Vile in 2011), Sheridan captures the cold vastness of the terrain and the scornful hardiness of those inhabiting it.
And the direction is also by Sheridan, whose only previous work in that capacity was the 2011 torture film Vile, which neither I nor anybody else I've ever heard of has seen.
Taylor Sheridan, the screenwriter behind “Sicario” who garnered an Oscar nod for “Hell or High Water” last year, gets back in the director’s seat (he helmed a “Saw”-esque flick in 2011 called “Vile” that you might have missed) for “Wind River,” a crime thriller set high in the Wyoming wild.
But in Wind River, Sheridan’s first film as both writer and director (he previously directed the 2011 horror film Vile), his meatheadedness becomes even more of a liability.
Sheridan also directs (it’s his second time behind the camera after a 2011 horror misfire called Vile), and he’s become a clear fan of simple shooting and unsentimental line readings.