I think my Thanksgiving went well. We ate, watched horror movies, put in some work on the Xbox 360 and Wii and also enjoyed each others company drama free. Even if you could care less about Holidays like myself be sure to cherish the moments with your loved ones.

The new Freddy Krueger figure

Most people seem to not like it, I assume that if he were shown grimacing or had a better pose they might warm up to it a little.

The Collector (2009)

I had a bad feeling about this one when I learned who the writers were, I’m not exactly what you would call a fan of the Saw or Feast franchises but I wanted to give it a chance before I condemned it and the premise seemed interesting. I thought it started off well enough but things started to go downhill once you are treated to the overproduced music video style intro for the movie that is as colorful as it is long. A user on the dreadcentral forums named kiddcapone put into words how he felt about this movie and I can’t help but agree with him. Let’s have a read shall we:

The Collector just make NO sense what-so-ever. None. Zero. Notta. Nil.

Let’s just try to follow the logic…we have a killer. He apparently “collects” something but we’re never once told or shown what he collects. He only keeps the people alive he wants something from but then tortures and eventually kills them anyway without taking a single thing. He sticks complete strangers into a box, drops them into some intended victims house, and uses them as “bait”. Someone opens the box and then he jumps them from behind. Okay? Why does it matter exactly who or what is in the box? All you’re doing is creating a distraction to attack. Wouldn’t a dead rat on a silver platter serve the same purpose?

NOW….You’ve used a complete stranger in a box used for the sole purpose to sneak attack two people. You chain them up in the basement. You then proceed to go out to your U-Haul truck (it’s got to be big) and unload A HUGE amount of traps, devices, bear traps, hardware, and lumber. You scale the outside walls of the house like Spiderman unnoticed and BOARD UP almost every single window, upstairs and down, and install razor blade traps on the boards just incase someone sticks their fingers out. You install 8 locks on the back door and none on the front door. You set up dozens of elaborate hair trigger traps all around the house that clearly took months to create, cost thousands of dollars, and took days to properly install….but lucky for you, it only took 30 minutes or so. You’re THAT good!

SO NOW….You are the Collector guy. You’ve got two people chained in the basement of a house. You just spent your time rigging, boarding, and locking up the entire house. And why? For what purpose? THE ONLY TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE A THREAT TO YOU ARE CHAINED UP IN THE BASEMENT! All you need to do is barricade the doors if you don’t want to be fucking distracted. You didn’t KNOW someone was going to attempt to rob the house and break in. You didn’t KNOW the daughter was coming home with her boyfriend. What if NO ONE showed up at all? The traps were set up for NOTHING. What a waste. Are you going to neatly disassemble all the traps and pack them back up? It’s got to be expensive to keep buying the same things for each attack. Someone’s bound to start questioning the man who keeps buying 50 bear traps and assorted weapons every Saturday at Home Depot. But anyway…if you only keep the people alive you want something from, why did you keep the couple alive, set up a bunch of traps JUST IN CASE, then kill them later, and take nothing from them? Then when they are dead, you decide to keep the hero alive to use him as “bait” next. He uses one of your own traps against you, you’re stabbed with several knifes, but 2 minutes later you show zero ill effects of the wounds. You go back upstairs, grab your heavy “bait” trunk, elude the cops, leave ALL your traps back in the house, don’t worry you’ll buy more, and then find and wreck the ambulance containing the hero to reclaim your “bait”. But what if the wreck killed him? Then what? Everyone is dead. You’re bait is dead. What the fuck are you going to do now? You didn’t get to collect anything at all, all your traps are gone, and you’ve got no one to stick in a trunk….Bummer. I guess you’ll need a new hobby Mr. Collector man.

GOOD LORD the fucking movie blows…..

He pretty much hits the nail right on the head with that one. The only thing worth watching in this movie is Madeline Zima’s topless scene, which even The Collector himself sits down to watch during the film. But I’m sure an obscure google search can give you some screen caps of that. This was apparently supposed to be a SAW prequel and it shows with the scenes that look like they could be deleted extras from the later SAW films. This flick had a lot of my annoyances rolled into one. Shaky Cam, Being Too Dark, Hyper Editing etc. it also taught me that fish can’t be electrocuted and acid can’t harm books…UGH

The Collector is a 2009 United States horror film written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton and directed by Marcus Dunstan. Originally titled The Midnight Man, the script was originally intended to be a Saw prequel, but the producers did not want to do a prequel.

No Sir I Didn’t Like It: Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)

After the surprise of actually liking the first film, I jumped into this one with both feet first. Sadly I didn’t find the same joy in this one that I did in the original. I’ve seen a lot of folks give this one good reviews because it doesn’t take itself seriously and added way more blood and gore but I don’t let movies slide just because they went heavy on the Karo syrup and tried to be campy. I’d honestly say this movie peaked with the first kill which kinda rocked but one kill doesn’t make a movie, add  Henry Rollins being Henry Rollins and 2 characters that you expected to die being the sole survivors and I’d say these were the only “redeeming” qualities to be found. They seemed to be more concerned with trying to gross you out this time and not even mutant sex could save this one, I will say it was probably the first movie I saw where Texas Battle played a character that you might actually like.

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is a 2007 horror film, directed by Joe Lynch, and starring Erica Leerhsen, Henry Rollins and Texas Battle. It is a sequel to the 2003 horror film Wrong Turn, which starred Desmond Harrington and Eliza Dushku, and has been available on DVD since October 9, 2007. The film was commercially successful but received a mixed response from critics.

Wrong Turn (2003)

I’ll admit that I wasn’t expecting much going into this as I’m not a fan of the deformed, inbred, backwoods, cannibal subgenre. I will also admit to not liking movies such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or The Hills Have Eyes but I can see the merit in them so I was willing to give this a chance and I honestly enjoyed it. I’d say this movie was way better than it had any right to be and was actively good. It’s not without its share of clichés and it’s not some fresh take on the genre but I thought it worked and I’d recommend watching it if you don’t have anything else to do and need something to distract you.

Wrong Turn is a 2003 horror film, directed by Rob Schmidt, and written by Alan B. McElroy. The film stars Desmond Harrington, and Eliza Dushku. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.