The Collection
LD Entertainment | Release Date: November 30, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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3
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9
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoJun 28, 2017
The Collection is one of those horror films that really makes you sound like a deranged psychopath for recommending, but demands to be spread like a mind-controlling plague. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChris CabinNov 28, 2012
Whereas the later "Saw" films were hampered by bloated backstory, various ostentatious agendas, and self-satisfied sadism, The Collection feels utterly unburdened by anything but its lean, fleet-footed plot. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyClark CollisNov 28, 2012
Remarkably, the result manages to be both more preposterous and more efficient than its predecessor, with a couple of deaths occurring so swiftly they border on the subliminal. Read full review
60
NPRIan BuckwalterNov 29, 2012
Genre aficionados are likely to revel in every crunched bone, gratuitous decapitation and slow-motion iron-maiden impaling. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNick PinkertonDec 4, 2012
The Collection doesn't have much to recommend it beyond a first-reel bloodbath rivaling "Blade" and "Death Ship." Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisNov 29, 2012
The Collection is an honest title. The movie is just a lot of other people's greatest hits. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckNov 28, 2012
Unfortunately, the Collector simply isn't a very interesting screen villain. Clad in a black mask that reveals only his eyes and mouth, he mainly communicates by heavy breathing. It makes one yearn for the perversely witty chatter of Jigsaw. Read full review
50
VarietyGeoff BerkshireNov 28, 2012
An energetic but utterly weightless exercise in slice-and-dice cinema. This sequel to 2009 chiller "The Collector" is in many ways bigger (more characters, more locations, more carnage), but in no way better than its predecessor. Read full review
42
IndieWireEric KohnNov 29, 2012
The whole thing is a fairly yawn-a-rific affair until the vengeful prologue establishes a wicked role reversal, hinting at the better movie that filmmakers more interested in storytelling would have made. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsNov 28, 2012
It also has enough nutty energy and oddball touches - "The Wire's" Andre Royo shows up as a gun-toting, faux-hawk-sporting badass - that it's never boring. Dumb, gross, gratuitous, and overly familiar, sure. But never boring. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriDec 3, 2012
The movie's a smorgasbord of horror, and, ironically, that takes the teeth out of it. We're not really in this villain's world, because we don't know what his world is, or what he is, or what he's trying to even do. It's like a nightmare designed by someone who's heard a lot about nightmares but has never actually had one. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenNov 30, 2012
Melton and Dunstan have created little more than a hollow shell for an empty box. Read full review
38
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 30, 2012
Dull and repetitive, even by the standards of an already repetitive genre. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenDec 5, 2012
An exercise in pure sadism, The Collection moves at a clip that leaps over plot holes in its race to elicit fright. Read full review
20
The New York TimesNicole HerringtonNov 30, 2012
A pointless exercise in sadism. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 29, 2012
The Collection is bloody, disgusting and ridiculous, but the one thing it's not is horror, not real horror, not in the sense of tense or scary. It's not cinema, either. It's not even fun. Read full review
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