The Collection

The piss-poor Saw rip-off had me missing the Saw movies … and I hate the Saw movies. After an interesting opening during which a young girl (Emma Fitzpatrick) survives a dance-club massacre, things go relentlessly downhill. This features yet another serial killer that has the time and resources to create huge Rube Goldberg killing machines and traps. This guy, who wears an oily black mask, actually turns an entire building into a deathtrap full of trip wires, swinging blades and squishing elevators. It’s extremely tedious. For lovers of a good gore movie, the bloodletting is highly unimaginative. It’s strange that a studio would release total garbage like this in the middle of the holiday season. It’s a total bummer. I totally don’t want to have any eggnog now.