Saw meets The Strangers as introduced by Rube Goldberg. Oh, and there's spiders.
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08/01/09
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
If the torture-porn genre isn't dead yet, this idiotic exercise in pointless sadism should kill it off for good.
08/01/09
A mean-spirited throwback to the nastiest, cruelest home-invasion movies of the '70s and '80s ... And I mean that in the best possible way:
08/01/09
Hardcore horror film with a storyline that resembles a particularly nasty Itchy and Scratchy cartoon.
08/01/09
It's just a good-ol-fashioned bloodbath. Rasputin could get behind that. And occasionally, I can too.
07/31/09
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
07/31/09
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
Offers plenty of gore and stylish cinematography, but no imagination, surprises or intrigue. Ultimately, it's tedious, inane and increasingly preposterous, even if you're willing to suspend your disbelief and to check your brain at the door for 88 minutes
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
Critiquing the filmic technique of this blatant horror franchise-bait is akin to quibbling with the shade of lipstick on a slaughtered pig.
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
Parental Content Review
07/31/09
The editing and camera work are self-consciously stylish, as if to say "We're better than this." But the human and moral components are shortchanged.
07/31/09
A surprisingly stylish and confident high-concept thriller.
07/31/09
Top CriticThe Collector grafts a torture porn payoff onto a heist thriller setup with messy, illogical results.
07/31/09
Top CriticCould there be a less appealing tagline to a movie than 'from the writers of Saw IV, V and VI?'
07/31/09
The Collector feels like the final, welcome nail in the bizarrely popular torture-porn coffin.
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
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then "The Collector" flatters the heck out of "Saw."
07/30/09
Not 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
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