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
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07/31/09
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]
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... [More]
Starring: Madeline Zima, Andrea Roth, Daniella Alonso, Robert Wisdom
Director: Marcus Dunstan
Reviews for The Collector
The Collector feels like the final, welcome nail in the bizarrely popular torture-porn coffin.
07/31/09
The early scenes promise a potentially novel cross between heist and extreme horror, but those hopes are quickly dashed.
07/31/09
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.
07/31/09
It's no shock that working on the past three SAW films has influenced the duo, and it shows in THE COLLECTOR, a raw, gritty and uncompromising horror film that puts the previous SAW film to shame.
07/27/09
One trap leaves a woman impaled on a movie screen, producing an image that succinctly if literally sums up a genre’s cynicism.
08/03/09
Top CriticNot pretty, but for a genre that consistently gets off on a Hanna-Barbera aesthetic to shock audiences out of their allowance money, it's interesting to see primal fear put back on the screen.
07/30/09
It's just a good-ol-fashioned bloodbath. Rasputin could get behind that. And occasionally, I can too.
07/31/09
Hardcore horror film with a storyline that resembles a particularly nasty Itchy and Scratchy cartoon.
08/01/09
...an open-handed insult to fans of the horror genre. The storytelling on display is beneath remedial.
07/30/09
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.
08/14/09
Grisly horror film is smothered in blood and gore.
08/03/09
Dunstan clearly delivers what horror fans desire: a leap from their seats.
07/30/09
If a horror picture is supposed to scare its audience, then this one has misplaced that goal with an onslaught of broken limbs, chipped-out teeth, and melting pussycats.
07/31/09
Dunstan directs his first feature with a good eye, but the material doesn't feel as realistic as the duo might have hoped.
07/31/09
I was somewhat startled to discover that it actually has a few intriguing qualities amidst the blood and guts.
08/07/09
A sub-Saw knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant.
08/05/09
Top CriticA simple, basic, fast-paced horror thriller that wastes nary a frame on unnecessary set-up, languid exposition, or pointless subplots.
08/03/09
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10/22/09
There's some torture, a lot of blood, some deaths, the usual routine, but without any suspense or ingenuity.
08/02/09
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