Nato: The Collection – Opening Rave Scene
If you told me that The Collection would make my Top 10 Horror Movies of 2012, I probably would have erupted in laughter based on obvious information. Piranha 3DD bombed, Saw had run its course after stretching ridiculously thin, The Collector was an incredibly indie horror flick with great tone but didn’t really scream for a sequel – essentially Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton had the world against them coming into their new “torture porn” flick. So what did they do? Start the insanity off with a body count amassing more kills and blood in a matter of minutes than the next ten goriest films of the year combined.
Seriously, The Collection starts with this fun loving rave scene at some seedy underground club – lasers flashing, techno blaring, hot teens dancing – until the masked Collector shows his “face” and spoils the fun by means of total annihilation. How might you ask? Does he go one by one, snapping necks? Maybe raining poison acid on the drunk party goers? Nah, he’d rather lock all the doors and turn on this giant spinning lawnmower looking contraption that literally sweeps down and eradicates all life, magically making an entire club full of people into a pulpy red explosion of bodily innards. Yeah, The Collection had my attention after that scene.
Remy: V/H/S – The “I Like you” bit
The first real story you see in the movie V/H/S is a story called “Amateur Night,” about some nasty frat boys who want to film some post-club coitus they are trying to engage in with young woman they picked up from said club. The thing is, you realize right away something is off with one of these girls. Again, I refuse to spoil just what that is, but you feel it the way she looks at the nicer of the boys and says “I like you”, looking like a confused cat disguised as a human. And you KNOW something is off by this, and that it is not a good thing that she “likes you’, but you sit there, heart hammering, waiting for the reveal, and when it finally happens, it’s everything you could dream – plus more. Just the very idea that they could take an expression as harmless as “I like you” and turn into one of the best horror expressions of the year speaks volumes about this awesome anthology film. Matt and I will have much to say about the new V/H/S soon, so stay tuned.
