The Collection

[eloisel]

Okay. Saw this yesterday but have been busy to think further about it. I was one of two in the theater so that should tell you something about this movie.

If you like mindless slaughter, blood, guts, and gore, etc. then this is a good movie. Yes, parts of it had me on the edge of my seat.

Plot. Not much of one really.

Oh... it is a sequel.

Interesting. The first movie got one and a half stars. This sequel gets four stars. Not from me but from the critics.

The trailer promises some cleverness. Some dialogue from the character Arkin also promises some cleverness. In reality, not so clever. The horror house is booby trapped. Yes. I'm not impressed.

I liked how it ended - not just that it was over but what happened to the Collector. Good. I hope there is a third movie all about it.

 

[Filthy Whore]

I'm kinda sorta interested but I'm not big on slasher flicks. Unless Jensen Ackles is in it.

 

[eloisel]

The premise had potential. The delivery was lacking. Just too many big plot holes.

For example, Arkin, a thief and the only guy known to have escaped from this particular serial sadistic killer, who was taken at the spur of the moment and was totally unaware before he was taken that he would be, and had been enclosed inside a trunk and transported from his original location to an unknown destination, cleverly had a sharp enough instrument on him to gouge marks on his arm that would help him relocate the torture destination in case he survived such a horrific thing and wanted to go back to the hell house where he had managed to endure such fear and pain inducing torture. However, using said same sharp instrument, he could not get his own self out of that trunk where he had been languishing for god knows how long and all covered in blood - apparently not his own.

Then, without much time to recover from his ordeal, and being removed from police custody at the hospital by a rich man's private security team, he actually went back to hell house.

Then, while in said hell house escorted by a team of highly skilled and armed persons, he deliberately went off on his own.

Mind you, it had just been a few hours since he had been released from the trunk, where he was covered in blood already, and after breaking his arm escaping from the serial sadistic killer who had tortured him for however long it had been, and he'd been to the hospital emergency room where they had to reset his arm, clean him up, medicate him, etc.

I know he was compelled to go as it was a rescue mission. But, the rescue mission is based on the premise that the police wouldn't be looking for the person who murdered 100 or so people in the latest incident, kidnapped a billionaire's daughter at that murder site, and wouldn't be interested in the escaped thief to get them to the torture house.

Most of it was predictable.

The booby traps weren't all that clever. Trip wires and pressure points. Bear traps. Plus, with the closing scene giving the audience some insight in to who the Collector is, where did the suspect get the money to spend on his traps and drugging the captives he didn't kill outright to the point that they were horribly disfigured and insane murder machines themselves?

 

[Filthy Whore]

Instant recovery time is very hard for me to ignore. That's one of the problems I have with The Walking Dead: Carl's and Herschel's life threatening injuries were seemingly overcome within a few days/less than a week.

The only reason I was initially interested in this movie is because it was compared favorably to the Final Destination films. I really enjoy the clever ways they kill people off in those movies.