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
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 3/4 |
...a gritty and downright brutal horror-movie endeavor... Full Review |
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 1/5 |
By shaving the plot and motivation to almost nothing, director Marcus Dunstan is pretty much fessing up his understanding that all anybody was ever interested in in the Saw films is the torture porn. Full Review |
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Watching The Collector becomes an experience not so much of dread as big virtual ouches. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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 |
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2.5/5 |
Click to read the article Full Review |
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1/4 |
How I clamor for a contemporary horror film that understands that extreme gore does not equal genuine scariness. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Once things get rolling it's actually decent. But the first 25 minutes are flat and boring. Can't quite recommend it. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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 |
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I was somewhat startled to discover that it actually has a few intriguing qualities amidst the blood and guts. Full Review |
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D |
A sub-Saw knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant. Full Review |
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1/5 |
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 |
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1/5 |
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 |
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1/5 |
Grisly horror film is smothered in blood and gore. Full Review |
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1/5 |
One of the more doltish entries in the torture subgenre. Full Review |
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0.5/4 |
One trap leaves a woman impaled on a movie screen, producing an image that succinctly if literally sums up a genre’s cynicism. Full Review |
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2/10 |
The torture never stops. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
A simple, basic, fast-paced horror thriller that wastes nary a frame on unnecessary set-up, languid exposition, or pointless subplots. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
what happens when Dario Argento's Suspiria gives Elmore Leonard a drunken booty call. Full Review |
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D |
There's some torture, a lot of blood, some deaths, the usual routine, but without any suspense or ingenuity. Full Review |
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0/4 |
There is no reason on earth 'The Collector' exists. Full Review |
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