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Josh Stewart, Karley Scott Collins, Michael Reilly Burke

Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of de...( read more  read more... )adly traps.

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R, 1 hr. 25 min.

Directed by: Marcus Dunstan

Release Date: July 31, 2009

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  • sheens431
    August 20, 2009
    sheens431
    Ok, there's nothing really new here, but this was still a decent watch. It's pretty intense throughout the entire film.

    The plot (there really isn't one) is super simple. People die b/c the house is rigged with sharp objects everywhere, thanks to The Collector. How the guy se...( read more)t up so many death traps in so little time is a huge hole the writers failed to address.

    Still, it's bloody and gory and you never know who's going to die or how, so it keeps your interest. The ending was a letdown, like they wrote it at the last second, just to keep it open for a sequel.

    It's a good time filler movie if you're not too offended by a lot of blood.
  • LitelBluHli
    August 3, 2009
    LitelBluHli
    Aahh...I have to admit I was looking forward to a sick film, but it didn't disgust me as bad as I thought it would. My question is, "How did he set all of that up in that amount of time?" Doesn't make much sense...It's a pretty simple "scary movie" that doesn't have the twists an...( read more)d such like the SAW films, but watch it anyway if it's your cup of tea.
  • DrZeek
    August 1, 2009
    DrZeek
    Arkin: Keep your eyes on my back, don't look around.

    I guess this movie is being promoted as "From the guys who wrote a bunch of crappy Saw movies," but my interest in this came from the fact that these guys wrote Feast, an OK horror flick that had a fun, twisted sense of humor,...( read more) and showed potential for the future. This film manages to be incredibly stylized, gory, and full of tension. It requires to big leaps of faith, but its more enjoyable than the Saw movies for a number of reasons; It doesn't require high expectations, it doesn't try to trick the audience and be too clever for its own good, and it actually manages to create tension and scares.

    Josh Stewart stars as Arkin, a locksmith who moonlights as an amateur thief. After a quick setup to provide motivation, Arkin goes to rob from the safe of a house he has helped work at. Little does he know that the very house he is attempting to rob has been taken over by a serial killer, who has managed to setup traps all over the house. Now, Arkin must survive and try to protect the very family he was going to rob.

    Why this killer, known as the Collector, has decided to place traps everywhere makes almost no sense as well as no difference to me. Will it lead to cool looking but nasty and gratuitous gore? Yes, but the movie doesn't try to apologize for its premise. The character of Arkin is very much the voice of the audience when it comes to understanding how fucked up the situation is.

    This movie is certainly benefited by how well made it is. After a very Se7en-ish opening credit sequence, we are treated to all kinds of camera tricks, editing smashes, dutch angles, sound effect tricks, bumps, and creaks, and it all works very much to the film's advantage.

    The separation from a film like this and a big studio pic like Friday the 13th is thin, but I enjoyed how this film was made much more and it didn't feature annoying characters designed for you to want to see dead. This is very much style over substance, with a very hard R rating, but I can enjoy an original horror story that manages to provide some scares, which is certainly a change in pace for most films in the genre nowadays.

    Arkin: You have me, let the girl go!
  • BlueTorch
    August 12, 2009
    BlueTorch
    Contains your typical psychopathic serial killer who rigs a house full of deadly booby traps in order to snare a family - the twist is that a burglar breaks into the house unannounced in the midst of the killer capturing the family and trapping the house. The movie thus turns in...( read more)to a cat-and-mouse game of the burglar trying to save the family and escape the house.

    I'm not a horror fan, but The Collector worked for me. Sure, the killer is googly eyed and occasionally shifts from short sighted to superman, but the premise was excellent. The burglar knows the killer is there, the killer figures out the burglar is there, and how can they outmaneuver each other into getting what they want. The setting is claustrophobic and the soundtrack is perfectly appropriate to keep me gripped to the edge of my seat.

    How I know this was good - I walked out of the theatre and there was an "oh, I'm back in the real world now" feeling I generally don't get walking out of a movie.

    The Collector isn't a four star movie, but I had a four star experience watching it and it is far better than your standard horror flick.
  • ilive4discus
    August 4, 2009
    ilive4discus
    Actually really enjoyable! Not bad for a horror film. Sadly, probably one of the better films I've seen this summer...and (can't believe I'm saying this) even this year. I didn't expect anything from this. (honestly, i thought it would be awful) But I had an hour and a half to wa...( read more)ste before work, so I sat in on a screening and found myself pulled in and on the edge of my seat throughout the entire film. A bid part of that is due to the lead actor, Josh Stewart, whom I loved in FX's cancelled show "Dirt" (w/Courtney Cox). He's wonderful in this film and shows potential as a future leading man on the big screen. There isn't really much to the plot (a robber in a house discovers there is a serial killer torturing the family of the house in the basement), but the film is non-stop intensity. This is from the people that wrote the pieces of crap known as "Saw 4", "Saw 5", and the sure-to-be-crap "Saw 6", but there is some really nice work with this one; still along the lines of an almost torture porn, but a definite step up from the "Saws". If you're looking for a good horror film, I highly recommend this one. A very pleasant end-of-summer surprise.
  • dbeltra
    October 19, 2009
    dbeltra
    The Collector es va proclamar la gran guanyadora de la nit. L'argument és ben simple, un home entra a robar una casa i a dintre s'hi troba un misteriós enmascarat amb un gran amor per la sang i les trampes mortíferes.

    A the Collector podem veure un cop més l'afició d'en Marcus D...( read more)unstan per les trampes endimoniades, i tractant-se de la ment que hi ha rere el guió Saw IV,V i VI no era per menys.

    Tota la pel·lícula és un gran joc del gat i el ratolí entre el lladre i l'enmascarat que fa posar els pels de punta. L'ambient que aconsegueixen crear amb els canvis de planol i sobretot amb un magnífic muntatge sonor és inmillorable, i aconsegueix posar al públic d'allò més nerviós, que és evidentment l'efecte desitjat. Pro el film no es queda només en la persecució, sino que ens regala sang, molta sang, amb trampes per tot arreu, tortures i morts d'alló més espectaculars que faran les delícies dels amants del gènere. I tot això per a portar-nos a un final amb sorpresa inclosa, que tot i ser més aviat previsible, és d'agraïr.
  • jensen2112
    October 16, 2009
    jensen2112
    is good I recomend to the ones that like the uhhh deaths (brutal)
  • jigsawlegend33
    September 25, 2009
    jigsawlegend33
    THE COLLECTOR was a low budget bloody good time. Its got cool traps,gritty/trashy visual style and its just mindless fun. A new horror icon is born! Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, the WRITERS of tv's project greenlight's movie: FEAST and SAW 4 5 and 6 are showing that they h...( read more)ave some interesting talent in the horror genre.
  • LYNNWOODS04
    September 19, 2009
    LYNNWOODS04
    Read some reviews that seem to be mixed, so I will watch it to see what its all about. The trailer looks decent. Looks like it would be a good thriller. Hope it doesn't disappoint.
  • Msladyj79
    September 2, 2009
    Msladyj79
    Not as scary as I thought it was but interesting.

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October 30, 2009
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Watching The Collector becomes an experience not so much of dread as big virtual ouches. full review

August 3, 2009
Kurt Loder, MTV

The torture never stops. full review

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