An exercise in pure sadism, The Collection moves at a clip that leaps over plot holes in its race to elicit fright. No weighty psychology or physical logic freights this enterprise.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 7, 2012

Just a pointless exercise in sadism.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 30, 2012

People in Hollywood need to work and surely "The Collection" created a lot of jobs, but there must be a better way.

| Original Score: F | Nov 30, 2012

Dull and repetitive, even by the standards of an already repetitive genre.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 30, 2012

Melton and Dunstan have created little more than a hollow shell for an empty box.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2012

There's a bad movie every week, but it takes a special one to make you start anticipating the decline of Western civilization.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Nov 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.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 29, 2012

Genre aficionados are likely to revel in every crunched bone, gratuitous decapitation and slow-motion iron-maiden impaling.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 29, 2012

The director Marcus Dunstan and his co-writer, Patrick Melton, strike again.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 29, 2012

One cannot deny that Marcus Dunstan's completely illogical mess of a horror film certainly never bores. It's too bafflingly stupid to be truly boring.

| Original Score: 1.0/5.0 | Nov 29, 2012

It's never boring. Dumb, gross, gratuitous, and overly familiar, sure. But never boring.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Nov 29, 2012

A murkily directed bore "dealing" with the subject of serial killers and revenge ...

| Nov 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.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2012

This sequel to 2009's The Collector features enough gratuitous carnage to satisfy hardcore horror fans, if few others.

| Nov 28, 2012

An energetic but utterly weightless exercise in slice-and-dice cinema.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2012

For those who are on board, it's a more absurd yet equally efficient bit of grisly fun; for those who never were, don't expect this one to change your mind regarding mindless bloodshed.

| Nov 27, 2012