The Collection

Daddy's little rich girl gets cancelled on by her (no good) boyfriend and goes off with friend to a party so exclusive one needs a password ('Nevermore') to get in. Looks like everyone knows the password, though, as the place is stuffed. Even the boyfriend is there, making out with some random blonde.

The location has been prepared by the elusive serial killer known as the collector. The people on the dancefloor get eliminated by what looks like a part of a giant lawnmower, some get caged in and simply squeezed to death. Also on the premises is one red box, holding our hero (ish) from part 1, Arkin.

He manages to escape the house of death by jumping from a first floor window with a body (the boyfriend) in front of him to break his fall. Daddy's girl takes his place in the box. Arkin is questioned by police who apparently cannot decide whether he is just a victim or is somehow involved with the mass murder that has just occured. Just in case, they cuff him to his hospital bed.

Shortly after, he is visited by a squad like outfit tasked with finding and rescuing the newest collection piece. And they want Arkin to lead the way. They don't give him much of a choice in the matter but simply put a gun to his head. So he takes them to the location he was being held and tortured in. He can tell the way because he cut marks in his arm, one straight one whenever he had counted to 100 and a diagnol one for every turn the car made. They end up at a place called Hotel Argento (a nod to the director? maybe), which is the collector's headquarter.

Unsurprisingly, the place is a death trap. The group (including Bubble from The Wire) has to pick their way around the house and - also unsurprisingly - get killed off one by one. They find a few victims of the collector in various stages of paranoia (mostly drug infueled). Daddy's girl has by now managed to free herself from the red box and navigates her own way through the labyrinth of death.

Her and Arkin will be the only ones to make it out alive. The body of the collector, or whatever should be left of it after an explosion and extensive fire, is not found on the scene. Jump to some time later...Arkin has dedicated himself to finding the culprit, having concluded that the guy really is a collector. Of insects, that is. He finds the guy through some registry of entomologists and - after telling him that he will torture him extensively before killing him, forces him into a box.

The stage is set for part 3, I think.

7/10