BRING OUT THE GIMP SERIAL
Now, I point this out because, within the reality of the movie, the serial killer’s well-publicized modus operandi is to murder people with industrial grade equipment. But the fact that the Gimp’s traps are so elaborate is precisely what makes The Collection one of the most idiotic movies of 2012.Īt the beginning of the movie, we’re told that the bad guy has already massacred over fifty civilians, mostly by booby trapping people’s homes and workplaces. And I’ll admit that building complex deathtraps probably requires a high degree of ingenuity. In this early sequence writer/director Dunstan clearly tries to impress upon us how brilliant and twisted his villain is in transforming a club into a mechanized bloodbath. Other lemmings have their throats slashed by a variety of hidden blades that look like they were lifted from the temple at the end of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. Those that aren’t killed by the whirring blades of the combine are captured beneath a giant hydraulic press and crushed like so many grapes. The sole female survivor (played by professional Natalie Portman-lookalike Emma Fitzpatrick) watches in horror as a dance floor full of drunken ravers are dismembered by a giant combine that descends from the ceiling.
BRING OUT THE GIMP MOVIE
In this movie no fewer than sixty trust fund kiddies get maimed or dismembered, most of them in an early sequence in which the serial killer reduces an obnoxious, underground rave into a pile of bloody meat. A Gimp-masked serial killer constructs elaborate deathtraps and torture devices and uses them to terrorize America’s stupidest teenagers. If you’ve seen any of The Saw movies, then you already know what The Collection is about. That sounds somehow incestuous and wrong. So just to get it all straight: The Collection is a sequel to a derivative knock-off of a bloated, decade old torture porn franchise.
Writer/director Marcus Dunstan penned both movies in addition to Saw V, Saw VI, and Saw 3D: The Final Chapter. As it turns out, The Collection is a sequel to the 2009 torture porn flick The Collector, which somehow flew under my radar. And yes, I understand the trailer looks like a horribly derivative Saw knock-off starring The Gimp from Pulp Fiction, but I only mean “original” in the sense that I thought this was the first entry in a new franchise. I walked into a showing of The Collection operating under the impression that it was going to be an original horror movie. Gaze into the eyes of cinema’s most forgettable serial killer.
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