The so-called "torture porn" genre is mostly dead, but has given way to a sort of action-adventure horror that fuses elements of that particular vision of horror with other ideas. That seems to be the slot in which to place
The Collection, which comes from
Saw IV-VI writers
Patrick Melton and
Marcus Dunstan. The latter also directs, and the film is his sequel to the 2009 effort
The Collector.
The story kicks off with a girl (
Emma Fitzpatrick) going to a secret party that turns into a murder spree for a killer known as The Collector. Her father hires a merc crew to retrieve her, and the film seems to go down the
Aliens path, as the team recruits Arkin (
Josh Stewart), the one guy who escaped the Collector's lair to guide them in an effort to take him down.
A new trailer shows off some of the action and murderous ideas at play in the film; check it out below. Looks fairly silly, but it is beautifully shot, and I can see some good action coming out of the setup. And I love Dunstan's playfulness in his intro, even as the poster (below) suggests that there is far more twisted stuff in the film than what the trailer offers.
The Collection premieres at Fantastic Fest, and opens in the US on November 30.
Yahoo has the trailer.
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