The greatest movie ever made..!

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick ) is the daughter of a wealthy man. When she is taken captive by the Collector (Randall Archer) at a rave, her father (Christopher McDonald) hires a SWAT team to go get her. They employ the services of the reluctant Arkin (Josh Stewart)the only man who has ever escaped from him.The Collector's warehouse is filled with booby traps. Plenty of blood and body parts. Light on "one on one" torture, relatively speaking. This movie simply goes through the motions. Let's put more killings in the feature and neglect a decent plot and characters. This is bordering on gore for sake of gore. If you are a big fan of "The Collector" and have been able to watch all "The Saw" movies without getting bored, you know you will watch this one too.For me, one gadget killing after another is getting tiresome. Can we have a pause for drama and plot?Parental Guide: F-bombs, brief nudity, no sex.

While the first movie of this series "The Collector" had such a dark toned scenario, story, and cliffhanger ending, I myself felt that it's sequel "The Collection" lacks the amount of both credibility and creativity to make a much better storyline that surpasses the first movie. The movie also counts with an amount of unnecessary gruesome scenes in my opinion. I was also hoping that we'd get to know more about "The Collector" himself, what does he achieve by doing all of this, though we get a little tease at the end with Arkin telling some things about his past. The last scene made it up for just some seconds, though as expected, we got a cliffhanger ending with "The Collector" trapped in his own coffin by Arkin. Not to mention that throughout the whole series there's been more questions than answers formulated. But nice try nonetheless.

I didn't realize while I was watching this film that it happens to be a sequel. I walked into this one knowing absolutely nothing about the previous film 'The Collector' (2009), so my view of this movie wasn't very knowledgeable of the overall plot between the two films. 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. They find themselves being knocked off one by one, through various disgusting and nasty traps. As the victims fall to the killer's somewhat ridiculous traps, they get closer and closer to discovering who the killer really is.It's not a bad Horror/Thriller film. It has one of the worst beginnings of any horror I've ever seen however. The Collector is obviously some sort of wizard like engineer, being able to transform entire buildings into one giant death trap. I know you don't watch something like this for the plot, but this film is pretty absurd throughout its short run time. The lead actor and actress aren't awful, they stand above the rest of the cast, but I never felt scared throughout the movie. There was a bit of action elements in the middle, which was actually the best part of the film. There were some very decent knife fighting sequences in this movie. However, a horror should put you on the edge of your seat, and I kind of thought this movie was not successful for its genre. I realize that the author of this film has a reputation for 'funny' gore flicks, but this one wasn't funny or scary. It was just okay for me.Obviously if you are a fan of this genre you may simply enjoy the blood, traps, and gore, but I thought the whole thing was one big 'Saw' copy, that has the occasional moment or two.4/10

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).