Yes — Vile rates 4/5 on The Horror Database's gore scale, heavy on explicit gore.

Does Vile rely on jump scares?

Not really — Vile leans slow-burn (15/100 on THDB's slow-burn↔jump-scare spectrum); the fear builds as dread rather than shocks.

Will Vile stay with you after watching?

Some of it — Vile rates 3/5 on lingering effect; it follows you to bed but lets go within a day or so.

Vile is genuinely disturbing (75/100 toward disturbing on THDB's fun-scary↔disturbing spectrum) and rates 4/5 on overall intensity — for viewers who want horror that cuts deep.

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Vile(2011)

Name: Vile
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 2011
Duration: 88 min

2011 · Taylor Sheridan · 88 min

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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Horror · Thriller

5.1156 votes

TMDB score

4/5

Intensity

4/5

Gore

3/5

Stays with you

How Vile scares

It opens with people trapped and confused, then spends most of its runtime tightening the screws as the group is forced into an escalating, ugly game just to survive. The pace is steady and grinding rather than jumpy, building dread through desperation and hard choices instead of sudden scares. Expect a queasy, claustrophobic mood centered on pain and what people will do to each other under pressure, with real bodily harm on screen rather than ghosts or monsters. It's more upsetting than fun, aimed at viewers who can handle grim, high-pressure survival horror.

Intensity over runtime

Shape only — no events

Reveal pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.

A tense trapped-and-desperate setup gives way to an escalating, brutal middle and a punishing, high-intensity home stretch.

How scary is Vile?

On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Vile rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be heavy on gore and genuinely disturbing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.

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