Before 
Yellowstone.
Before Sicario, Hell or High Water and Wind River.
Before all the films and series that have made Taylor Sheridan a household name … there was Vile.
MVD Entertainment Group announced this past week that director Taylor Sheridan’s debut film, Vile, will be returning to the home entertainment packaged media marketplace on Oct. 24 as the newest member of the company’s popular “Marquee Collection” line of DVD and Blu-ray releases.
Taylor Sheridan has been pretty clear about the origins of the 2011 production of Vile and his involvement … he did the directing as a favor to a friend and then set about to work on the script for Sicario (sometime 2012/2013; released theatrically 2015 with direction by Denis Villeneuve).
Vile screened at the 12th annual FrightFest in London in late August of 2011 and then somewhere along the way it was picked up for distribution by Inception Media Group and subsequently released on DVD on Sept. 12, 2012. Inception stopped releasing products in May of 2016, so it is fair to say that Vile has been out of print since then.
That all changes on Oct. 24 with both the DVD relaunch and the Blu-ray debut.
Vile is your basic haunted house thriller, complete with victim pool and a crazed cult that captures and tortures the unsuspecting. A genre fan delight.
Nick (played by Eric Jay Beck, who wrote and produced … he would later write a couple of Yellowstone episodes in 2019 for Sheridan — Enemies by Monday and Sins of the Father) and Tayler (April Matson — Christmas Made to Order, Sharing Christmas, The Day Hoped Died … also award-winning director of the short film titled Here Is Where the Monsters Live) are on a camping trip with two of their friends when they meet up with a hitchhiker by name of Diane (McKenzie Westmore). She is nice, says her truck has run out of gas and could they help … of course, no problem.
She is bait. Gases them. And when they awake, they find themselves trapped with others in some sort of Saw-like torture chamber. The only means of escape is to inflict pain … lots and lots of pain.
We won’t give away the MacGuffin here, but if you are a genre fan you will immediately recognize that if victim pool has nine members to start with, there is going to be quite a bit of carnage before the final credits roll. Vile is virtually unseen, so we won’t spoil the ending …
Bonus features are limited to deleted scenes.
If you are a Taylor Sheridan fan, or a genre fan, then Vile on either DVD or Blu-ray from MVD Entertainment Group on Oct. 24 is a must!!
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