The Collection
Starring Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald, Lee Tegesen
Directed by Marcus Dunstan
There is a serial killer on the loose, but it doesn't stop Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick) and her friends from attending an underground party. Unfortunately for her friends and everyone else at the party, it's crashed by the killer, known as The Collector (Randall Archer), who brutally murders everyone at the party, except for Elena, who leaves the dance floor before the carnage begins. She goes to a room and finds a red box, and opens it to find Arkin (Josh Stewart), a man who was abducted by the Collector. Together they try to flee, but Elena is taken by the Collector while Arkin manages to escape.
Arkin is then visited in the hospital by Lucello (Lee Tergesen), who's been a protector of Elena since she was young, and was hired by her rich father (Christopher McDonald) to track her down and bring her home safely, and in doing so he needs Arkin to show him and his mercenaries where the Collector's lair is located.
Arkin takes the team to an abandoned hotel where the Collector has been hiding out, and the group discover getting to Elena will be harder than they thought, as the hotel is laced with booby-traps, guard dogs, and human zombies (people the Collector added to his "collection" that he doped up with drugs, making them basically mindless minions). Arkin sets out on his own personal vendetta against the man who abducted him, while the rest of the team sets out to free Elena.
When "The Collector" came out in 2009, people were hailing it as a revolutionary step in the horror genre, and I thought it was a cheaper knock-off of "Saw." I wasn't impressed with it at all, until I saw "The Collection," which, to my surprise, was worse than the first film. It's another "Saw" film only shot inside the funhouse from hell, filled with pointless gore (it would've been better if there was more), lame story and horrible acting, except for Emma Fitzpatrick, who reminded me of Natalie Portman from "V for Vendetta" in looks only.
The cool part of the film was the first fifteen minutes with the massacre in the dance club, which was the best single mass murder scene I've seen since the first fifteen minutes of "Ghost Ship." Unfortunately, like "Ghost Ship," that was the best part of the film.
Rating: B
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