Weekly Comp - The Collection - 21st April 2013 - FINISHED

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #1 21st April 2013, 03:29 PM

Hi all,

Welcome to yet another great weekly Cult Labs competition! This week we're giving away the fantastic new horror film that has a body count on par with the ENTIRE Friday 13th franchise...in just one film!

Here's how to win...

The Collection

"The bottom line is that The Collection is a blast; it's pulpy, grotesque and packed with the warped sort of humor we've come to expect from Dunstan/Melton." - Shocktilyoudrop

On DVD Monday 29th April 2013

From the writers of Saw IV, V, VI and 3D comes the thrilling sequel to The Collector that works just as well as a standalone film. Tense, terrifying and packed full of action The Collection will have you on the edge of your seat - or hiding behind it!

Key talent:

Writer/director Marcus Dunstan and writer Patrick Melton (Saw IV-3D; Piranha 3DD), and stars Josh Stewart (The Collector; The Dark Knight Rises; The Walking Dead), Emma Fitzpatrick (The Social Network) and Christopher McDonald (Boardwalk Empire; Requiem for a Dream).

Synopsis:

When Elena (Fitzpatrick) is talked into attending an underground warehouse party with her friends, she finds herself caught in a nightmarish trap where the revelers are mowed, sliced and crushed to death by a macabre series of contraptions operated by a masked psychopath. When the grisly massacre is over, Elena is the only survivor. But before she can escape, she is locked in a trunk and transported to an unknown location.

Fortunately for Elena, one man— Arkin (Stewart) —knows exactly where she’s headed, having just escaped from there with his life and sanity barely intact. Going back is the last thing on Arkin’s mind, but Elena’s wealthy father (McDonald) hires a crack team of mercenaries to force Arkin to lead them to the killer’s lair. But even these hardened warriors are not prepared for what they encounter: an abandoned hotel-turned-torture-chamber, rigged with deadly traps and filled with mangled corpses. Can Arkin and the team get to Elena before she too becomes part of his gruesome “collection”?

You'll Love It Because...

It's like Aliens to The Collector's Alien with a team of badasses hunting down the mysterious serial killer and a helluva lot more nasties to be found in his lair. Full of action and gore this is a thrill-ride of a horror film that kicks into gear quickly and stays at full throttle right until the end!

Hot Quotes:
“An unapologetic celebration of splatter cinema.” - screenrant.com

“A slick, wickedly funny, and brazenly over-the-top sequel that does justice to the budding franchise.” - filmschoolrejects.com

“The production design, cinematography, make-up effects (practical effects here, no CG nonsense) and music are all surprisingly superb.” – JoBlo

“Rarely does a sequel live up to its predecessor, but the director/writing team of Dunstan and Patrick have crafted a well thought out, tense film, more than worthy of 2009’s The Collector.” - 8/10 - Starburstmagazine.com

Special Features:

Audio Commentary with Director/Co-Writer Marcus Dunstan and Co-Writer Patrick Melton
A Director’s Vision
Make Up and Effects of The Collection
Production Design
Special Effects of The Collection
Stunts of The Collection

#ScaryCollection

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To win, playing on the collection theme, all you have to do is let us know what the strangest thing/s you've ever collected is!

Post up photos for brownie points!

This competition will end next Sunday (the 28th April) where the three best entries will each win this excellent must-own DVD.

Good luck everyone,

Kyle

trouserpress · #2 22nd April 2013, 09:31 AM

When I was thirteen I spotted a large dead crow outside the library window at school. I got to school early the next day with a shoe box and it was still there. I scooped it up and hid it in the locker in my classroom until home time. During the day my friends and I began to notice an alarming number of ants crawling around over the lockers.

At home time I grabbed the box once no one was looking and took it home, where I buried it by a tree. My plan was to dig it up again in two months so I would have a complete skeleton. Sadly I forgot where it was buried.

My next attempt to develop a dead bird collection was about a year later. I found another dead bird, possibly a starling, and put it in a glass jar. This time I would watch the putrefaction and decay like a morbid scientist. This jar sat on my shelf for six months. With no air it just slowly turned to bony, feathery sludge. One day, when several friends were round, one of them opened the jar. The smell was nasty, and I chucked it in the bin.

That was the end of my collection!

Rik · #3 22nd April 2013, 11:41 AM

I used to collect rubbers when I was a kid, not condoms so stop sniggering at the back there, but erasers. Wherever we went on holiday, be it Sicily visiting family, Spain, Blackpool, Flamborough Head, you name it, if I went there as a kid I got a rubber bearing either place name or some type of novelty from the place. I had hundreds of them, ranging from Blackpool Tower shaped ones, to bullfighting scenarios, no idea what ever happened to them, I expect they got thrown away years ago

Demdike@Cult Labs · #4 22nd April 2013, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Rik

I used to collect rubbers when I was a kid, not condoms so stop sniggering at the back there, but erasers. Wherever we went on holiday, be it Sicily visiting family, Spain, Blackpool, Flamborough Head, you name it, if I went there as a kid I got a rubber bearing either place name or some type of novelty from the place. I had hundreds of them, ranging from Blackpool Tower shaped ones, to bullfighting scenarios, no idea what ever happened to them, I expect they got thrown away years ago

I also collected rubbers and pencils.

I might still have them somewhere in the tin they've lived in for the best part of thirty years.

I'll see if i can find them and post a pic.

troggi · #5 22nd April 2013, 10:54 PM

I once read that a guy in Hollywood used to save his navel fluff and make handkerchiefs out of it. The article also said that some film stars owned these hankies. I thought "I'll give that a try." Sadly I was 10 at the time and my belly-button was not hairy enough to capture the lint so my plans of supplying nose wipes to the stars went unfulfilled

Susan Foreman · #6 23rd April 2013, 12:18 AM

I collect scars

Mind you, I cheat - most of them are self inflicted with razors!

Sorry - no pictures!!!!!

troggi · #7 23rd April 2013, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by suziginajackson

Sorry - no pictures!!!!!

Tch! I s'pose they're somewhere that cameras shouldn't go!

Roughale · #8 23rd April 2013, 10:51 AM

Now that is hard to describe, as I have to rely on a dictionary for translation...

When I was at school we had to use fountain pens for writing and the cartridges had these little balls at the top to keep the ink in. I collected a LOT over the years and once had the idea to proudly put it on my wardrobe like a trophy, naturally it fell down and all these tiny balls fell out, pesty lil things at a diameter under 1mm, they killed our hoover too, not a very happy moment, but I found single ones frequently for a long time after that. I wonder if the buyers of the house still have them