COLLECTIVE, THE

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Kelly Overton is the attractive woman who both starred and co-directed and wrote the script to this mystery of a girl racing to New York City to rescue her sister from mysterious forces.
The photography is beautiful, the locations are striking of Manhattan--a place I called home for thirty years so it was interesting to recognize where the action was filmed.
Alas, though, the story has too many plot holes to succeed as a gripping study in terror.
The church where this mysterious sect has taken over is actually the picturesque Limelight, a church turned into a disco watering hole during the l980s. It's located at 20th Street and Sixth Avenue--one of the most congested areas in Manhattan. Tens of thousands of pedestrians, cops, cabs, throng this area hourly. If you screamed, you'd be mobbed within a nano second. Neither of the two girls make any attempt to find help.
When the two sisters escape the villians in the church, they race to find safety and in one rather...

The Collective stands apart from the crowd.
Star Kelly Overton turns in a solid performance as a woman searching the city for her sister, who has fallen in with a charismatic but potentially dangerous group. It's a movie that uses the city well and lets the audience follow along to try solving the mystery. Husband & wife team Morgan and Overton shared writing and directing duties and, to my way of thinking, did a respectable job. It's a straight-forward suspense tale that doesn't get bogged down by gimmicks or by pretending to be something it's not.



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