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The Collector (2009)

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Reviews Counted:44

Fresh:11

Rotten:33

Average Rating:4/10

Consensus: Increasingly tedious displays of gore makes this torture porn home-invasion-horror more programmatic than provocative.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for pervasive sadistic bloody violence, language and some sexuality/nudity.

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Jul 31, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $7,674,322

Synopsis: THE COLLECTOR follows the story of handyman and ex-con Arkin, who aims to repay a debt to his ex-wife by robbing his new employer’s country home. Unfortunately for Arkin, a far worse enemy has... THE COLLECTOR follows the story of handyman and ex-con Arkin, who aims to repay a debt to his ex-wife by robbing his new employer’s country home. Unfortunately for Arkin, a far worse enemy has already laid claim to the property – and the family. As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked “Collector” in a maze of lethal invention – the Spanish Inquisition as imagined by Rube Goldberg – while trying to rescue the very family he came to rob.

The project, produced by Fortress Features’ Brett Forbes and Patrick Rizzotti and Imaginarium Entertainment Group’s Julie Richardson, stars Josh Stewart (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Criminal Minds), Daniella Alonso (Friday Night Lights, The Hills Have Eyes 2), Michael Reilly Burke (Lincoln Heights, 24), Andrea Roth (Rescue Me, War), Madeline Zima (Californication, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), Karley Scott-Collins (Pulse 2, The Class), Robert Wisdom (The Wire, The Forgotten) and Juan Fernandez (The Lost City, A Man Apart). --© Freestyle [More]

Starring: Madeline Zima, Andrea Roth, Daniella Alonso, Robert Wisdom

Starring: Madeline Zima, Andrea Roth, Daniella Alonso, Robert Wisdom, Josh Stewart, Michael Reilly Burke

Director: Marcus Dunstan

Director: Marcus Dunstan
Screenwriter: Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan
Studio: Freestyle Releasing

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A surprisingly stylish and confident high-concept thriller.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
07/31/09
John Anderson
John Anderson
Variety
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This ultra-sadistic, efficiently single-minded Grand Guignol endurance test plays like something cooked up by a clever 14-year-old devotee of Bloody-Disgusting.com.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
08/14/09
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

what happens when Dario Argento's Suspiria gives Elmore Leonard a drunken booty call.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/02/09
Keith Breese
Keith Breese
Filmcritic.com

You will squirm, but aren't we getting a bit desensitized to these routine torture flicks? It's like seeing a pop songstress get naked for the billionth time -- yeah, she's hot, but we have all seen it before.

Full Review Source: BET.com | comment Comment
07/31/09
Clay Cane
Clay Cane
BET.com

Amid all the blood and punishment [it] works the suspense chain along with a wrenching soundtrack and a gritty film stock that harkens back to the old horror flicks of the 70s

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
07/31/09
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

One of the more doltish entries in the torture subgenre.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
08/03/09
Jeannette Catsoulis
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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There is no reason on earth 'The Collector' exists.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
08/01/09
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Dunstan clearly delivers what horror fans desire: a leap from their seats.

Full Review Source: Dread Central | comment Comment
07/30/09
Uncle Creepy
Uncle Creepy
Dread Central

How I clamor for a contemporary horror film that understands that extreme gore does not equal genuine scariness.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
08/31/09
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

This is the sort of cheap bilking that separates completists from masochists; the brief suffering onscreen is nothing compared with the agony scary-movie buffs will feel after being so thoroughly cheated.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
08/05/09
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

A sub-Saw knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment 2 Comments
08/05/09
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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Exactly the movie you'd expect from a couple of guys whose main claim to fame is having written the last couple Saw movies.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
08/05/09
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then "The Collector" flatters the heck out of "Saw."

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment 1 Comment
07/30/09
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

If you didn't already know The Collector was written by two Saw franchise hacks, and directed by one of them, it would soon become as obvious as a fish hook to the face.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
10/30/09
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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Parental Content Review

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
07/31/09
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

Once things get rolling it's actually decent. But the first 25 minutes are flat and boring. Can't quite recommend it.

Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | comment Comment
08/16/09
Austin Kennedy
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

Hardcore horror film with a storyline that resembles a particularly nasty Itchy and Scratchy cartoon.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment 4 Comments
08/01/09
Jette Kernion
Jette Kernion
Cinematical

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

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
10/30/09
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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Could there be a less appealing tagline to a movie than 'from the writers of Saw IV, V and VI?'

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
07/31/09
Thomas Leupp
Thomas Leupp
Hollywood.com

The torture never stops.

Full Review Source: MTV | comment Comment
08/03/09
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
MTV
 
 
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