Collapse

COLLAPSE is one of those dreadful independent sci-fi/horror movies with a colourful premise and an execution which simply doesn't match. It involves a quartet of characters who hole up in a remote cabin in the woods during end times. The horror comes from a mysterious creature that has designs on them and the film chronicles their efforts to evade it.

The apocalyptic elements of the film are almost totally missing on what is a very low budget. COLLAPSE is one of those films which simply features a bunch of characters sitting around in the dark and chatting. Characterisation is nil and the quality of the acting matches that. The direction and script are also poor. There's a twist ending of sorts but it's rather silly and the whole thing is a time waste, nothing else.

If there was a provision to give a negative star rating, this movie would merit it. It pretends to be some poetic, sophisticated, existential horror film, and instead, it is boring over-blown, and blathering. SyFy Original movies (this isn't one of those) are usually torched for lousy stories, terrible acting, and bad special effects. By comparison, "Collapse" elevates ANY SyFy Original movie ever made to award winning status. There aren't many movies that I genuinely abhor, but this is one of them. Absolutely do not waste your time on this preening piece of crap.

It starts out switching between multiple groups of people. There's some people running from killer fog. There's a crazy woman who gives speeches to trees. There's a guy with a baby in an SUV running from..a gargoyle? Some flying monster or something. They all converge on this cabin and hide in there from the killer fog. After some pointless nonsense, they all settle in to tell us all about the apocalyptic events that we don't get to see. At this point, it seemed like they were going to spend the next big chunk of the movie sitting around in this room talking. I turned it off. Maybe it gets better later but somehow I doubt it. The whole thing depends on these characters and none of them are interesting or likable.