{"id":35183,"date":"2021-10-08T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T00:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35183"},"modified":"2021-10-08T20:12:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T00:12:35","slug":"the-collection-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/08\/the-collection-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Collection (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I never saw the original \u201cThe Collector\u201d but at this point I think it\u2019s fair to say that you don\u2019t really have to. \u201cThe Collection\u201d is definitely a follow up to what is meant to be a trilogy of films, and the storyline isn\u2019t exactly episodic. \u201cThe Collection\u201d is not at all a bad movie, mind you. But it\u2019s not as labyrinthian in its narrative as the \u201cSaw\u201d series continues to be. It sure does try to be, as it tells us very little about who the Collector is.<\/p>\n

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Young Elle is invited by her friends to an underground night-club and finds a young man named Arkin trapped in a red trunk. After releasing him, Elle is abducted by the Collector but Arkin escapes, seriously injured. Arkin is then kidnapped by mercenaries hired by Elle’s father Mr. Peters and led by Lucello to hunt down The Collector and rescue Elle. Arkin is forced to show The Collector’s hideout masked as an abandoned hotel. They go inside the place and soon they find that the place is protected by many booby traps and that the hunters might become the hunted.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say that Marcus Dunstain\u2019s \u201cThe Collection\u201d is trashy, sadistic, amusement park fun and I had a good time with it. I\u2019m not going to pretend it\u2019s a masterpiece, but in a genre where directors like to up the stakes during sequels, \u201cThe Collection\u201d hits that quota, big time. There\u2019s still so many questions about the Collector, and his ability to build such a humongous lair that works as a museum to his sadism, and a funhouse filled with deadly booby traps (his trips to get coffee in the morning must be fun), but once you put that all in the back burner, the experience is good, schlocky junk food cinema. The Collector is a character depicted as something of a mastermind who takes better joy in hurting his prey rather than claiming them for his collection.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s left as mainly a voiceless entity who spends his time dodging the mercenaries, all of whom have to get through his lair without being viciously mutilated. Director Dunstain has a great time pitting his characters against these weird and far fetched booby traps, and pits the focus on his protagonists as much as he can. There\u2019s grue, and gore, and considerable sadism injected, as the film\u2019s pacing is breakneck fast. \u201cThe Collection\u201d serves a duel purpose both as a sequel and potential final film in the intended trilogy. The epilogue pretty much wraps up the show, but I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll be seeing the Collector rise again sometime soon. The follow up to the original is such a good novelty, one that I could see re-watching during a boredom spell on a Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never saw the original \u201cThe Collector\u201d but at this point I think it\u2019s fair to say that you don\u2019t really have to. \u201cThe Collection\u201d is definitely a follow up to what is meant to be a trilogy of films, and the storyline isn\u2019t exactly episodic. \u201cThe Collection\u201d is not at all a bad movie, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[58,477,703,922,950,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-35183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-sequel","tag-slasher","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35187,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35183\/revisions\/35187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}