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To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

In the film industry the success depends on depth, story, performances, SPX, screenplay, authenticity. In the horror genre a good film needs to be able to encompass the audience, entrap them in the characters vision. From the opening segment the film needs to keep you invested. There should be enough twists and turns that makes you say "THAT I WAS NOT EXPECTING". Sorry to disappoint this film really doesn't have much to offer.One sequence is The Collection seemingly picks up shortly after the first one. The sadistic killer controls his victims in a hotel/warehouse instead of a house this time. As with the first film the traps the killer lays are a rip-off from the Saw films. Albeit there are some unique ones but they are savagely depicted to cause mortal death or dismemberment. The screenplay/writing lacks intensity, lacks suspense and fill. The idea behind these films is unique, but the way they were laid out for the audience truly lacks entertainment value.

A psychopathic killer is on the loose and our story begins; he's the kind of person that slaughters people en mass (massacre) and collects one person from the genocide and adds them to his 'collection'. The beginning of the movie doesn't elude to much that will happen – it gives some brief foreshadowing and then our heroines are off for a night on the town. All too good to be true right? The movie quickly escalates into typical 'Saw' like fashion, but we never actually see the killer – it goes straight back to supernatural horror-esque killers that never speak. We see him continually, lots of body language – and his intent is clear – he is quick to the point and gets his work done. This is a bit hard to believe in a movie sense – but it is a movie – they can get by with this kind of thing.The actual mansion that he lives in – an abandoned hotel – is something out of horror movies. I won't spoil it, but it is literally like something out of Alien or Aliens. The museum going on here, and literally looking at what this madman does for a hobby, should be enough to draw anyone bored with horror movies – back into the genre and wanting more content like this movie delivers. The movie does go above and beyond with thriller and suspense style content also. The music was spot on, and often it only helped to emboss the movie against other horror movies and slashers of this genre.I liked it, I think you will too. I think enough movies like this and the slasher genre could come back into the limelight.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=5113).

I enjoyed the first film enough to check out the sequel but just barely. The Collector had a handful of decent moments peppered throughout a plot-hole riddled story and while some of the ideas were better than the execution it was slightly above average. This sequel is extremely average and forgettable. If you thought the premise of the first film was pretty far-fetched you haven't seen anything. All logic is thrown out of the window this time around and because the characters act without a shred of credibility it's difficult to really care what happens. It's still entertaining and funny to watch for its sheer stupidity but it would have probably benefited from either being more self-aware and revelling in its silliness or being more harrowing and gritty. As such it falls somewhere in the middle; moments of grisly violence and threat don't make much of an impact because nothing about the script is realistic. It's straight-faced absurdity with seemingly no intentional comedy. I did appreciate the continuity from the first film though, and the return of Josh Stuart's character Arkin was definitely welcome but this was a very different beast more focused on over-the-top action. One thing this film has in common with the first though is that there is absolutely no real horror here. Nothing about this film is scary, but there certainly are some nasty moments of violence although as I said it's not even close to being disturbing because of how silly it is. If you're bored and you're in the mood to watch something that's entertaining because of how stupid it is then this can be enjoyable, I definitely didn't hate it, but I didn't really like it either.

THE COLLECTION, a sequel to the torture porn flick THE COLLECTOR, is a mild step up from the first and a little more entertaining - if you can call watching people getting killed in increasingly gruesome ways entertaining.The story sees the return of Arkin, the erstwhile hero of the first movie, as he manages to escape from the clutches of the devious killer only to find himself forced at gunpoint to undertake a new, even more dangerous job: he's forced to lead a team into the collector's home, a long-abandoned hotel, to rescue a kidnapped girl.What follows is decidedly more action-orientated than the first film, and on a bigger scale. The opening scene, a massacre in a nightclub, seems to be a nod to BLADE. The traps are bigger and broader here, and the bloodshed flows in equal measure, although this seems less interested in the depiction of pain and more keen to show dismemberment and gore on a large scale. Still, THE COLLECTION is fast paced and has a great ending, so it's not all doom and gloom. Josh Stewart is a welcome return from the first film, although newcomer Christopher McDonald steals his scenes with an assured and confident performance.