The Collection

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with a series of television broadcasts that make clear the Collector has become a serial killer and the focus of a massive police manhunt. As in the first film, the Collector kills all victims but one, whom he kidnaps. Arkin (Josh Stewart), returning from the first film, is the most recent known victim. Elena Peters (Emma Fitzpatrick) is taken by her friends to a secret party at an undisclosed location. Elena witnesses her boyfriend, who bailed on their date the same night, with another woman. She gets upset, breaks his nose, and leaves the crowded dance floor to enter an isolated room. There, she discovers a red trunk and opens it to find a severely injured Arkin. Arkin grabs Elena and they both dodge a steel spear that shoots from the wall which initiates a series of deadly traps. First, a large rotating mechanism with blades darts through the dance floor, shredding hundreds of people. Meanwhile, Elena, frightened, runs from the room and steps on a trip wire, initiating thin swords to fling out of a hallway, hitting people in the chest and neck. Finally, a small room locks shut with two steel bar barriers, and the Collector is spotted standing on a crate panel shaft in the ceiling. The ceiling lowers completely on the last victims, including her friend Missy, slowly squishing them to death as Elena watches them in horror. The Collector quickly finds and captures Elena, while Arkin escapes by taking a body as a protective shield and jumping out of a high window, landing on a car and breaking his arm in the process.At the hospital, Arkin is arrested by the police and put under constant surveillance due to his known criminal record. He is approached by Lucello, the right-hand man of Elena's wealthy father (Christopher McDonald). Lucello has hired a team of mercenaries to hunt the Collector down and save Elena before she is killed. Lucello implies that if Arkin leads them to the Collector's hideout, he will save Arkin from his criminal record.While previously being kidnapped by the Collector, Arkin had marked the turns in their journey on his arm with a series of cuts. He is able to lead the mercenary group to the Collector's base--an abandoned hotel in a desolate part of town. When Arkin refuses to go inside, Lucello double-crosses him and forces him at gunpoint to guide them through the hotel. Meanwhile, Elena uses her bra to push through a hole in the red trunk, enabling her to grip the latch and escape from inside. The Collector re-enters the room and notices her escape, so he lets loose several spiders, hoping this will reveal her hidden location. However, Elena is able to escape while the Collector is distracted by the surveillance alarms triggered by the team of mercenaries.Upon entering the hotel, the team is attacked by people with half-faced masks stapled to their head, whom the Collector had captured and driven insane with drugs, forcing the team to shoot them. Arkin takes the opportunity to escape from Lucello. At this point, the movie jumps among 3 groups: Elena trying to find an exit, Arkin trying to escape, and the mercenary team led by Lucello trying to find Elena. While wandering the hotel, all three encounter live humans being experimented upon and human body parts re-arranged to resemble insects. Arkin narrowly escapes the Collector several times but is unable to find an exit. Members of the mercenary team are killed or captured one by one. Elena finds a room full of make-up and a prisoner named Abby who claims to be the Collector's "favorite" and is reluctant to break his rules. When Abby notices Elena adjusting her hearing aid she panics, claiming that Elena isn't strong enough for the collection and that she wasn't supposed to escape. Elena and Abby are separated when the Collector finds them.Eventually, Elena, Lucello and Arkin reunite and rescue Paz from a trap, all other members of the team having been killed. They find Abby, who asks to escape with them. The group finds a room with a small window that they cannot escape through, but they see two homeless men outside. When the men are unable to hear their shouts, Arkin shoots one of them. He fires a second shot when police arrive, causing the SWAT team to surround the building. Abby betrays the group's location to the Collector, but dies when she steps on a board of nails and falls back into an iron maiden-like trap, which mechanically folds with her inside. Enraged by this, the Collector attacks the group with a pair of dogs and kidnaps Elena. Lucello, pinned to the ground with another iron maiden trap approaching from above, tells the group to save Elena and leave him. They find her strapped to an autopsy table. When they approach, they are trapped in a cage that falls from above. The Collector makes it apparent by displaying and flashing a lighter that he is going to burn down the building, but Arkin manages to open the cage by having Elena re-break his arm so that he can reach the latch.The group escapes and finds an exit door to the building--it is jammed from the outside. The Collector kills Paz and easily beats Arkin in a fist-fight since the latter has only one functional arm. As the Collector is about to kill Arkin and Elena, Lucello appears, having survived his trap by using one of the dog corpses. He fights the Collector in a knife fight but loses; however, as a final act, he holds the Collector in place so that Arkin can get the upper hand, Arkin savagely beats the Collector before throwing his body down a chute onto a pile of body parts covered in gasoline and lighting it on fire.As the building is burning down, the fire department hears Elena's screams and opens the door from the outside, allowing Elena and Arkin, the last survivors, to escape. However, Arkin finds the Collector's burned mask inside Arkin's trunk with no corpse. Some time later, Arkin manages to track down the Collector's house by searching for every registered entomologist nearby. Arkin confronts the Collector and, before killing him, says he will torture the Collector as he tortured Arkin. The Collector attacks Arkin, but is forced into his red box and desperately clings onto the sides as Arkin slams the box shut.

Tags: brainwashing, revenge, murder, violence, flashback

Review:
A sequel to "The Collector", the story is about a serial killer who uses elaborate contraptions to kill groups of people but he always seems to take one away alive, and bring one of his "collection" to his next murder scene.
So they head off to The Collector's house of horrors to find her...The film is pretty much non-stop action, violence, and gore.
So here is something new for me -- Watching a horror movie sequel, not knowing it's a sequel, and it being good enough that I want to see the original.
'THE COLLECTION': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)Sequel to the 2009 grisly slasher film 'THE COLLECTOR' once again written by horror meisters Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton and directed by Dunstan.
This installment has the survivor from the original film (Josh Stewart) leading a team of mercenaries into the warehouse of a deranged serial killer, he just escaped from, in order to rescue the daughter of a successful businessman.
The film begins with Arkin (Stewart), the hero from the first film, escaping his captor 'The Collector' (played by stuntman Randall Archer this time) at a club where he brutally murders dozens of people.
He makes his way to a hospital where he's approached by a man named Lucello (Lee Tergesen) who wants Arkin to lead him and a team of mercenaries in to the killer's lair (a booby trapped warehouse) in order to rescue Elena.
No matter what anyone says, this is a real horror movie its not all about the scary moment, movies like this are what makes it exciting!.Lets start with saying that I'm the biggest SAW fan and this is like another piece of heaven to me, people who don't agree or those kind of movies aren't their type, they shouldn't review and downgrade it.
It was really exciting and fun, and as expected like the first part, smart, mysterious and best of all gore!, there's no limit and you don't know what to expect next.This movie is a bomb and any fan of Saw or movies like it will enjoy this one, i almost jumped of my seat from excitement it just had that feeling, since Saw ended, and when i watched the collection i had the same thrilling feeling back which was AMAZING.All in all it's actually a great movie with a good storyline, i recommend you and all horror and gore fans to watch it.10/10 for sure!!.
I feel this film truly has all of the above down to a science.In The Collection, the psychopath killer is interesting & the contraptions he uses to trap, mutilated and/or kill his captives are certainly engaging.
"You're not strong enough, you're never gonna make it." Arkin (Stewart) escapes from The Collector's house and is going to the hospital trying to recover, before he can get there he is once again abducted and is forced to help a wealthy man rescue his daughter from yet another booby trapped house.
Once they find the building's location and enter, we, the audience, endure nothing more than a combo of Saw II, and Cube, with only some occasional visual flares and good set designs, and cute Emma Fitzpatrick as one of the leads in film's favour.Idea of the torturer injecting his victims with enough drugs to turn them into wired killers themselves was unusual' but overall the film ranges from cruel and sadistic one minute, to boring the next, and it climaxes with a routine "victim-becomes-the-killer" ending, and its brief 82-minutes runtime seems much longer than it is.Filmed in Jan./ Feb 2011, unreleased until Dec. 2012, and it's easy to see why.
I guess I just expect more out of a movie, but unfortunately some other people seem to have severely lower expectations.This film spits in the face of common sense, logic, good acting, worthwhile plot development, character development and almost every other facet of worthwhile movie making.
Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.The much abused thief turned reluctant hero Arkin (Josh Stewart, returning from the first movie) has made it back to the real world, but a man named Lucello (Lee Tergesen) blackmails him into joining in an operation ordered by Mr. Peters (Christopher McDonald), whose daughter Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick) is the latest person to be abducted by the monstrous Collector (Randall Archer, replacing Juan Fernandez).
"The Collection" is a sequence of "The Collector" and another stupid, gruesome and sick movie of this violent and sadistic sub-genre of horror based on traps and torture.
Now this has some funny moments too, it does look good (on Blu Ray), but it also almost plays more like an action movie than a straight horror movie.That's not necessarily a bad thing.
The Collection (2012)** (out of 4) Arkin (Josh Stewart), the survivor from THE COLLECTOR, is forced into the warehouse of the killer by a group of professional hunters so that they can rescue a girl (Emma Fitzpatrick) who has been kidnapped.
I thought THE COLLECTOR was an entertaining, if flawed, movie that managed to have a few good things going for it.
THE COLLECTION is certainly very flawed and has a bit of "been there, done that" but at the same time it's still a little better than most of the horror films from this year.
Three years after "The Collector" comes its sequel, "The Collection." It begins with one of the most gruesome (and most creative!) mass - murder scenes that I have ever seen shot on film.
And the question I was left with by the previous film ("The Collector," 2009) is still the most egregious omission — how on earth does our bad guy have time to invade a house or building and set all these things up?!
I knew bad things were afoot when we spot our horrible machinist lurking above, but  I didn't expect THAT.Even with almost no speaking lines, Randall Archer deserves credit for terrific physical acting throughout — not to mention some the best (worst?) crazy-evil eyes in horror film history.
An over the top gruesome gore galore fest that makes most other horror films look like a Disney movie.
When Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick) is abducted by the sadistic serial killer known as 'The Collector' (Randall Archer), her wealthy father (Christopher McDonald) hires a team of mercenaries to locate the psycho's hideout, an abandoned hotel, to try and rescue the girl.
Helping the team in their task is the only known survivor of the mask-wearing murderer, professional burglar Arkin (Josh Stewart).The Collection, the sequel to gory 2009 horror The Collector, doesn't make a whole lot of sense, with a million and one plot-holes and characters who make the dumbest of decisions—but I don't care, 'cos it delivered precisely what I wanted from a film by the writer of the Feast sequels, the latter entries in the Saw series and Piranha 3DD: namely, tons of gore!It's not long into the film that the nastiness begins, with an outrageously splattery sequence in a nightclub that sees an entire room of ravers reduced to a mass of messy body parts by several ingenious mechanical contraptions (like the Saw films, the killer is a dab hand at building the most complex of booby-traps and presumably has an endless supply of cash to fund his sick hobby).From this moment on, The Collection is a gore-hound's dream, delivering one sickening scene after another, the camera lingering on every disgusting detail.
OK, how to make a torture porn film: First, get a handful of terrible actors, and add them first.secondly, get a ludicrous, idiotic script full of sleaze, gore, torture, implausible plots twist and turns and even more torture and then throw that into the mix!third, Get a hack director who doesn't know how to make a horror movie ( and shouldn't be making horror films anyway) and throw that into the cooking pan!
The CollectionWhen collecting, it's important not to store your matchbooks next to your antique gas can and golden age comic book collections.Luckily, the accumulator in this horror movie only likes to amass organic items.Former captive - and only person to escape the homicidal Collector (Randall Archer) - Arkin (Josh Stewart) is hired by the father (Christopher McDonald) of the madman's most recent kidnap victim (Erin Way) to show his squad of hired killers (Lee Tergesen, Shannon Kane, Andre Royo) where his daughter is being kept.But when Arkin is tricked into re-entering the labyrinthine interior of The Collector's abandoned booby-trapped hotel, he finds himself facing off with the masked torturer once again.Revealing more about the sadistic stockpiler and his nightmarish mélange of human prey, The Collection expands on the lore and also maintains the gore.However, the problem with collecting humans are all of the weirdos that attend the conventions.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca.
It was a rather fulfilling piece of horror.Watching The Collection in the theater left me somewhat bewildered because I thought of the original film as something that was fortunate enough to go to theaters simply because the "right people" were attached to it (namely Marcus Dunstan, who returns as director and co-writer here alongside longtime companion Patrick Melton).
But I've been proved wrong before.Our story picks up where the original film left off; we are greeted again by the likes of Arkin (Josh Stewart), who was taken captive by the ominous "Collector" (Randall Archer), a man with a leather masked who has committed several homicides across a sleepy town, at the end of the first film.
Her father's friend is Lucello (Lee Tergesen) assumes she has been kidnapped (or "taken," seeing as we just got that sequel out of the way), and informs Arkin that if he agrees to lead them to "The Collector's" torture chamber, where he takes all his victims to perform grisly acts of sadism on them, that Lucello and his mercenary team could take him out accordingly.
Arkin accepts, but is soon forced to go along with the search-and-destroy mission of the masked figure, and the modest group goes into his lair to find him and get Elena to safety.Perhaps it's because my inner sadistic side was unleashed or the fact that I've seen almost nothing but horror-schlock like House at the End of the Street or the abysmal Devil Inside this year, I was satisfied during many of the gory, gruesome escapades that took place during the The Collection.
It gets repetitive, but some sequences are so entertaining and excessive that you feel you should have respect for what you just saw.Dunstan knows what he is doing with a camera in his hand, and does his best to stray from the unnecessary sequel vibe by inviting in new ideas that "The Collector" does with his victims and how he keeps them held in this ramshackle building with no sunlight or fresh air.
As a slasher figure, "The Collector" isn't wholly memorable, but like Jigsaw of the Saw franchise, he does what a gun can't do, which is give one the long, endless pleasure of sadistic torture had by bear traps, pliers, cockroaches, machetes, knives, injections, poison, or simple trappings in dark, cramped chests.Starring: Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Lee Tergesen, and Christopher McDonald.
Truth is, it wasn't a spectacular movie, but it did entertain with its house of horrors death traps that were elaborate in the vein of the Final Destination series.But, like that series, witty ways of dispatching people is not enough to keep a franchise enjoyable.
"The Collection" is, if anything, even more like the "Saw" movies than its predecessor, "The Collector", was.That movie also involved gruesome traps laid by a homicidal maniac, though they were set up in the house of the innocent victims, and thus weren't anywhere near as creative as the average "Saw" execution device."The Collection" takes the action out of suburbia and into a run-down hotel where the killer apparently hangs his hat...
Reluctantly willing to help, Arkin finds himself once again involved in a deadly game of survival, only this time the game is on the Collector's own turf.After enjoying The Collector, I was looking forward to watching this sequel and while it's not as good as the first film I still found that it was worth the watch.
The Collection doesn't do that, and after such an intense start, it keeps the pace up pretty well.Gore fans should enjoy this one too, as that has been ramped up from the first one.All in all, while The Collection isn't a cinematic masterpiece (and at least is doesn't pretend to be either), it's still a good movie to watch.
I think what honestly kept me watching the film was the excellent acting from Emma Fitzpatrick and the interesting traps aligned inside his personal lair.
Apparently our Elena has a moneyed father who's hired mercenaries to get her back, and our mystery man Arkin (Josh Stewart) is the only possible key; he must lead them to the killer's lair.Those of you who have read this far like this kind of movie, probably.
The characters are stupid, the killer is stupid, and there is no story like whatsoever.After starting as a possible good movie, all the potential is lost because of the illogical sequence of events that follow.
And all the traps did remind me a few times of Saw. It do picks in towards The Collection with Arkin (Josh Stewart) escaping from the nasty killer.
Overall, I thought this was a cool and worthy sequel; in enough ways it was similar to the original: lots of gore, cool interesting traps, some tense and suspenseful scenes, pretty good atmosphere, they definitely upped the blood and creep factor (there is a substantial amount of neat, very weird stuff in his "lair" - in some ways reminded me of the recent Silent Hill 2 or The Cell).
Christopher McDonald isn't really in the film to do anything except show up at the beginning and end for his paycheck.Plot: Imagine a world where a sadist can live out their fantasies without consequence and with endless amounts of money and time to build insanely crazy ways to torture and kill people.
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.
I watched it as a one off, and not sure how the first film affected the plot of this movie.The Collection is a gruesome series of trap-based murders, akin to the 'Saw' franchise.
There is no denying it's influence on this film, as several people find themselves trapped in a warehouse of a serial killer known as "The Collector." An escaped victim of a mass slaughter, an former convict who had a run in with the killer in the past (watch the previous film to find out about that), and a band of soldiers/mercenaries looking for the main character.
I know you don't watch something like this for the plot, but this film is pretty absurd throughout its short run time.
The Collection (2012), sequel to 2009's The Collector, is actually better than the first movie.
I'm not going to try and convince you that "The Collection"- the sequel to the underrated home-invasion thriller "The Collector"- is anything outside of exploitative "horror porn" for gore-hounds and fans of the original film.
A man (Josh Stewart) who escaped from the vicious grips of the serial killer known as "The Collector" is blackmailed to rescue an innocent girl from the killer's booby-trapped warehouse.The finest thing about this film was the score from Charlie Clouser.
I'm watching the collection, saw the first one it was really good, if you like horror/gore, Not much of a story line as neither film Quite fills you in on who or why this dude is killing these people other than fun,but this mug is sick and twisted,, so if that's your style then watch these flicks...the collection is a pretty good the acting is pretty good, while not superb it wasn't cheesy with no feeling, It's gory once again, and pretty suspenseful, the roles themselves were a little bit interesting, it does keep your attention, because you really want to know why this crazy fool is doing this , i personally liked it, but if thriller gore isn't your thing then you probably wont like it, either way i give it 6 starts.
In this segment, think: Saw II meets Aliens, but only hell's depth worse.I would be happy the charismatic thief from the original, Arkin (Josh Stewart) returnedif he wasn't so dumbed down here and shares his unearthly ability to outwit someone completely prepared for victims with the new hero(ine) of the hopefully only-two-installment franchise, Elena (played very plainly by Emma Fitzpatrick.) Together, they quickly and absolutely absurdly come up with ingenious ways to survive the undocumented super-human Collector's every move.I've seen ten men's share of terrible horror sequels, and while this isn't the absolute worse, it does rank high of awful horror film franchise's #2's #2.
and it has so many dangerous traps and kills that it will keep anyone watching even if they are not a horror fan.what i mean is this film is definitely NOT boring,it never gets boring because so many things are happening.
In The Collection, most of the suspense is unfortunetaly replaced with an action-like vibe while the "main characters" try to rescue a girl from the Collector's mansion of atrocity.Apart from that difference with the first movie, this sequel is still a disturbingly awesome horror film.