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[Kill of the Week] Dance Club Massacre in ‘The Collection’
Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.
If there was any horror film released in the last decade that deserved its own long-running franchise, one could argue that The Collector was that film. The movie, which began its life as the script for a Saw prequel, introduced a new icon with the titular Collector, a masked maniac who brutally maims, murders and, well, collects his victims.
While it didn’t quite spawn a franchise, The Collector did get one sequel in 2012, The Collection. The best way I can describe The Collection is that it is to The Collector what Aliens is to Alien. Not only is the general plot very similar, with the survivor of the first film being thrust back into their nightmare, but so too is the overall approach of the sequel, which is bigger and more action packed. While The Collector is an intense and confined horror flick, The Collection is played more for the crazy spectacle of it all.
And that gory spectacle begins with the opening scene, which sees the Collector using one of his nasty traps to turn the floor of a dance club into a human meat grinder. When a young woman at the club frees Josh Stewart’s Arkin from one of the Collector’s red trunks, she unknowingly triggers the death blades, which slice and dice dozens of teens.
Take that, Ghost Ship!
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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