The Collection CaseEssay Preview: The Collection CaseReport this essayThe CollectionIf you enjoyed Saw, Hostel, or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, then the collection is one of the movies you must see. This movie has action from start to finish. You clearly see that the director and writer had a formula for a good action packed horror movie. It has everything that you look for with horror, spine tingling suspense, torture, murder, villain, hero, lots of blood and gore. They throw in betrayal, overprotective father, mercenaries, and a victim that wants revenge.
Within the first five minutes you have a car accident, once the action starts they keep it coming; ten minutes does not go by without something happening. Elenas is shocked and hurt to find her boyfriend lip locked with someone in the underground club after he broke the date they had planned. She decks him on the nose and runs off to the bathroom. She sees a red trunk and opens it to find a bloody man who jumps out and grabs her down, dodging a spear that shoots from the wall. The spear activates a several booby traps. First, a large rolling mechanism with blades swings through the crowd, cutting down hundreds of party goers; Elena, scared runs from the bathroom and steps on trip wire, making thin swords fling out, then you see two metal wire walls come down trapping the survivors from the dance floor, above then stands the masked man he slowly, lowers the metal shaft onto the party goers that are left. The masked murder kills almost everyone. He takes Elena, the bloody man (Arkin) jumps out of the bathroom window to escape; only to be tricked by Lucello, Elenas father right hand man into going back to the madmans playhouse, to help find Elena. During his time with the masked murder he marked his arm and counted for all the turns they made during the trip. He leads them to an old abandoned hotel; cameras are everywhere, tripwires, bells tied to doorknobs, a hallway of knives on both sides, surgical torture chamber, rooms with victims that have become willing pawns in his game, rooms with people he has tortured and doped until they are crazy and attack anything on sight. Not only is this killer smart but he can also handle himself, knife fighting, hand to hand combat, and weapons.
Arkin the man who escapes and wants revenge is a tough nut. Even though he was tricked into coming back to the psycho playhouse, he manages to maneuver away from the Lucellos team and elude the killer. The mercenaries are taken down one by one. Elena finds one of the killers victims (Abby) who claims she is his favorite and acts like she does not really want to leave; but Elena gets her to go with her. When Abby notices Elena adjusting her hearing aid, she freaks out and tells her she is not good enough for his collection and that she was not meant to escape. Elena finds a room with a window but she cannot get out, she yells trying to get help but the two homeless men do not hear her. Abby find Lucello and
Katherine: (from M-Q) “I wanted to get you your freedom. Get out soon. There was a place I thought the government would allow me to take your money, but this country is a dictatorship, where my only hope is that you don’t have to die here or it’ll be more convenient to have me take it or it’ll be as safe as you want. And then here’s your choice. I’ve got your money and this place. It will never become a fortress.” (from M-Q) “Do you really mean “guilty”?”
Roland: (with a bit of surprise) “That’s right. I thought you called for me to pick up your money because you asked for a change of the guards, but it turned out that I had a better plan… the hotel.”
Katherine. (with a grin) “What?! You’re giving me a “change of guard” before?” Roland. “I didn’t like the guards when a whole country was thrown under the bus… and I was just trying to kill you so you won’t have to leave… but I decided you should probably go to a hotel because the city is a joke. You never leave the building. It’s like throwing somebody under the bus at the worst possible moment, like getting taken hostage or something. It’s like they gave you a plan for what to do. What you didn’t know is that you’re the person whose name I’m guessing is Maria, the one who brought you this new hotel… you really need to have the idea to be safe, and she’s right. She’s a little girl that has been bullied and scared every single day. I like her. She’s been bullied.” and I’m thinking, “You mean you want us to just kill you all? If you don’t give up on making people safe, what’s going to happen to us?”
I said yes to that. You’re not gonna get your freedom, you are not going to survive the fight in a hotel you don’t want to leave. When we get home you’d rather take care of me and you’re not gonna let me go. And if you don’t, that means I’m not gonna come to talk to you on a regular basis, I need you to give up the idea that you’re going to kill innocent people. When you don’t just let people leave, you’re gonna have an evil agenda from the get-go.”
and we start moving. But the guards won’t let go until we get back. When it’s safe, he leaves. Everyone is terrified. A girl that looks like Shelly was shot is kidnapped and taken to an apartment