The Collection Reviews

I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first. The home invasion premise of the original was really cool and without it the movie would not have been enjoyable, which is exactly what happens here. There's more action, more characters, but a lot less tension and scary moments. It's just bigger, louder, and not as genuinely creepy. I do think The Collector is a good horror villain, but he isn't as scary in this one. I am glad that they never go into back story for him, though. Many script writers make that mistake and it makes the characters less scary when you know their motivations. I'm not saying I'm not interested, but please do not indulge me. I thought the new characters were pretty awful, as is typical for horror sequels, and the traps were mostly the same style of stuff. There's still too much gore, but I can handle it. I know others cannot. Even after all this, it was mildly enjoyable, but an inferior sequel to what is becoming a cult classic horror film.

This movie is strictly geared towards fans of horror movies who love blood and watching people die in crazy awesome ways. Kind of like the "Final Destination" series, only with a real bad guy. This is a sequel to "The Collector" and picks up right after that one. Here The Collector kidnaps a girl and takes her to hotel that he has transformed into a maze of just crazy torture devices and death traps. When the cops, along with his last victim that got away, come to rescue her they have a lot of fun in that building to put it nicely. The death scenes are great, and it even features one of the best mass death scenes in a night club ever. But, there is little plot, and the actors that actually star in this aren't that good. But then again, that's not why you would watch this movie. Better than the original, and leaves it open to a third movie, which I'm sure will get made. Check it out if you like horror movies, but if you don't or are squeamish, then stay away at all costs.

Awesome horror movie, painful to watch at times and even made me jump. Love it!

01/02/2013 (Online)

The Collection is one of those sequels that simply builds on the first film, and reinvents the formula to create something special. This is the sequel to The Collector, and features the titular character doing what he does best, collects bodies. This is a fun, entertaining splatter fest that will surely appeal to fans of the original, and this is just as good in terms of a good mindless horror yarn. In terms of original ideas, the film really is a refreshing take on what the first one did, and expands on the story. This is a very entertaining film that will surely delight horror fans. The film has everything that made the first one so much fun. This is a disturbing, twisted ride that has enough tricks up its sleeves to make it a worthwhile second feature. The gore and traps are the standouts of this film, and aside from the Saw films, The Collector along with this sequel are the best in the Torture Porn genre. This is one of those films that will only appeal to fans of said genre, as really this isn't for the faint of heart. Although it doesn't reinvent the genre entirely, there are still plenty of good ideas on-screen to make The Collection a good film to watch. Fans will love this one and The Collector is as twisted as ever as he is know a serial killer and hunted down by the authorities. Director Michael Dunstan does a good with this entry and though it has its faults, this is an exercise in demented horror that pays off due to its strong sense of visuals and kills that is a must for any demanding horror fan. The Collection is a good sequel that is on par with the original and delivers everything that you'd expect from this twisted series.

The Collection is a supremely disappointing follow-up to its promising predecessor, The Collector. Wherein The Collector offered legitimate scares, had an excellent sense of tension, and was largely well executed, The Collection seemingly makes a parody of that.

The film starts absurd from the first scene, with a comically clichéd set up, and an increasingly absurd plot. The Collector's mechanisms are elaborate yet idiotic. His lair is an abandoned hotel seemingly in the middle of the city, populated with vagrants. The devices he utilizes seem to be a rip-off of the later Saw sequels, but with even less thought. In short, there is no element of realism to be found anywhere in the film in any way, shape, or form.

The actors are mostly bad, left to inhibit characters that are vacant of any substance, in a film devoid of wit, charm, or, especially, intelligence. It's not "so bad it's good", its "so bad its bad".

1.5/5 Stars

Fun but too far fetched. Again, how can someone set up so many traps so easily and so quickly? Despite this little plot hole, it's fun to watch so many people getting killed so quickly in 5 minutes. Definitely unpleasantly gleeful to watch, but not for everyone.

The Collection is the sequel to the low budget, hated by critics and movie-goers alike, hard to watch The Collector, which couldn't even make $10 million at the box office. Yes, they made a sequel. Here's the thing: it wasn't horrible. Writer Marcus Dunstan is writer and director this time around. Maybe it's that he's just able to translate what he's written to screen more effectively, maybe he's developed more as a writer. I'd bet against the latter seeing as how he wrote/co-wrote every Saw from 4 on (the bad ones), and the Piranha movies.

Of all the victims of this serial killer, only one has escaped. He's convinced to go back into a trap-house designed by the killer in order to find a rich mans daughter who's also been captured and may still be alive. Blood and guts, blood and guts. Is she alive and will our hero and a team of mercenaries be able to rescue her and get out alive? Who cares (KNOWS!, who KNOWS!)?

The Collection is an unoriginal movie that somehow picks up at the end, making it a decent flick. The acting was bad, it was unoriginal and the dialogue was cheesy. The ending isn't very good, mind you, but it does save The Collection. I'd say it's more entertaining than anything.

It's NOT going to the theaters to watch. I'm hesitant to say ANYONE needs to see it. BUT fans of horror would probably find some entertainment value in The Collection.

Not anything like the original and has an ending that makes me rethink my love of the main character Arkin, and the twisted love for the Collector himself.

Wow, I guess if you dont care bout much anything else, the gore was cool. Although I did like the ending.

Three years ago I watched a grotesque horror film that was highly disturbing but premise-wise fairly original. It became quite gruesome and before long half of its ENTIRE purpose was to shock and appall ... which it did with its highly creative-yet-disturbing methods of onscreen death/dying. It did not matter how ridiculous a death would be, the film would try to capture and then one-up itself twenty minutes later. Well ... acknowledging its originality at the time, I proclaimed that I had hoped it did not become a franchise as it was so preposterously unbelievable it could NEVER work again. Unfortunately I was wrong and a sequel has been churned out although I was also right that it doesn't work. While the original had a bit of a plot (unluckly man stumbles upon unlucky situation and lucks out because he lives), this second one has even less as it is a lot of people will die in strange ways. Somehow the serial killer in the last film found time to rig-up an entire (old) hotel with elaborate schemes, traps and torture devices. There is a gruesome bloodbath near the beginning of the film and it continues with some attempts at character development about people we do not care about. If you have no problems with a giant combine blade (that has been "fixed" to become even more deadly with ultra-sharp blades and razors etc) lowering itself from a dancefloor ceiling to chop dancing patrons to bits -- because of course a serial killer could easily do this at anytime during the day and once inside nobody would ever look up to see the death devices which he's actually perfectly rigged to run by the flip of a switch as the killer stands over it observing the carnage breathing calmly as he's apparently a one-man show who can lift tons of equipment all on his own etc and booby-trap an entire building and make floors and ceilings crush people ... Seriously. It goes on and on and I assume the audience is supposed to be on the edge of our seats in anticipation with what comes next ... but it becomes just a bit much.. I can spoil it all -- bullcrap follows bullcrap here! Please, please, please ... don't like there be a third one (which means ...).

A good horror movie makes you uneasy. Makes your skin crawl. Makes you nervous. This one just made me nauseous. I watched 15 minutes of it before I decided the excessive gore was not entertainment, just trash. It was already getting dull and incredibly repetitive, and I just don't find any fun in watching a huge mass of people get trapped in a small space and then killed off. What's the point? Don't waste your time.

The follow-up to The Collector, itself sadistically satisfying thriller, The Collection actual surpasses its predecessor in terms of creepy style, brutality, and intensity. Essentially a "torture porn" film, The Collection picks up immediately after the first film and unfolds like an utterly nihilistic version of Saw--there is no reason or motive for The Collector's atrocities as you get with Jigsaw. This film opens with one of the most twisted and surprisingly scenes of mass murder ever, and it proceeds from there to the lair of the Collector, where we finally see what he actually does with the body parts he collects. Unrelentingly bleak and gory, The Collection is a glance into the abyss of pure, dehumanized evil, and it is a thrill-ride in which fans of gore and splatter cinema will find much that is entertaining, gut-churning, and stylishly realized.

The follow-up to 2009's The Collector brings back the survivor from the first Josh Stewart. The story surrounds itself around a funhouse of traps in an old abandoned building, simillar to Saw. The killer has creepy eyes and wears a headpiece to cover his face. Overall slightly more entertaining than the original. The gore at times is extreme so brace yourself, i wanted to see this in the theatre back in early November but it wasn't playing in my city, there isn't much demand for most horror movies, we are a small fanbase. Anyway the movie was good overall. Not awesome but good.

I really enjoyed the first film from 2009 and I went tinto this one with an open mind and thinking it was gonna be pretty good...Well it was DAMN good This is one of those rare cases that the sequel is better than the first. The action and gor is nearly non stop the story makes sense with the first one and for the most part the acting is solid. This is the best slasher style of movie to come out this year a must watch

I really loved the collector, so i was pumped to see its sequel, it does a lot of things well, in that its not just a retread of the first, it adds a new location, shows more info about the collector, has more characters, i also liked how they deal with arkins situation from the first film, i will say that i wasnt as scared as much by this one as i was the first one, i feel this one was more action based than horror based, and there were also some questionable character decisions, and some implausible situations where people shouldve been killed, but overall a decent modern horror film

A plodding industrial scale serial killer is thuddingly pursued against all odds, debuts in my six worst movies of the year so far.

Not quite as good as the first but a heck of a lot more satisfying (I'm talking about you, finale of this movie). It all sort of evens out. If The Collected never comes to pass, the series is at a good place.

Good horror sequel; makes me miss having a new "Saw" movie after it's 7 year consecutive run abruptly in 2010. I believe the first one came out at the same time as "Saw VI" in 2009. Either way, I remember going out of my way to see "The Collector" at Wynnsong second-run theatre. This one looks like it has a much wider release than the first.
This movie has just been absolutely massacred by critics, which, in my eyes, gives it it's final credentials as a bonafide slasher film, all-be-it more in the poorly named "torture porn" films like "Hostel" & the "Saw" sequels. If you like this sort of thing, you'll be satisfied. If not, you probably wouldn't be going in the first place.