The Collector (2009)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 47
Increasingly tedious displays of gore makes this torture porn home-invasion-horror more programmatic than provocative.
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 9
Increasingly tedious displays of gore makes this torture porn home-invasion-horror more programmatic than provocative.
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After a stint in prison, Arkin (Josh Stewart) finds employment as a handyman. But Arkin decides to rob his boss in order to repay his ex-wife (Daniella Alonso). Venturing to his employer's remote country house to make the heist, he soon finds himself -- as well as the boss' family -- at the mercy of "The Collector." This masked menace turns the house into a maze of fiendish traps. Only Arkin's wits offer any hope of escape from gruesome death. This bloody, visceral entry in the "torture porn"
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Josh Stewart
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Michael Reilly Burke
Michael -
Andrea Roth
Victoria -
Madeline Zima
Jill -
Daniella Alonso
Lisa -
Robert Wisdom
Roy -
Juan Fernández
The Collector -
Karley Scott Collins
Hanna
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Watching The Collector becomes an experience not so much of dread as big virtual ouches.
Top CriticIf 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.
A sub-Saw knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant.
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.
One of the more doltish entries in the torture subgenre.
One trap leaves a woman impaled on a movie screen, producing an image that succinctly if literally sums up a genre's cynicism.
The Collector has a strong co-lead in Josh Stewart; empathy for this wayward character and a depth that some deftly-handled backstory provides is very welcome.
It's not a classic, but I have a good feeling about The Collector as a new horror villain with a bit of mileage...
Some of the most fiercely inventive and twisted trap-based bloodletting we've had in ages.
Delivers gruesomeness but not a whole lot else.
It takes the rotting corpse of torture-porn out of the abandoned warehouse and Slovakian ruins and dumps it smack dab in the middle of your safe and comfy home.
Relentlessly bloody and just as relentlessly idiotic deathtrap thriller for the Saw crowd.
Another relentlessly violent rampage with no discernible point whatsoever.
A ludicrous, gratuitous torture porn with an idiotic ending. But within those boundaries it's absolutely at the top of its game.
'Horror romp' would be an apt description of the 90 minute story, only with the original concept detailed as a burglar breaking into a serial killer's home, it's difficult not to think what might have been.
This is a crass, silly and baffling slice of torture porn -- with the audience being tortured, chiefly with boredom.
It has a noticeably 80s retro vibe, while the sheer inventiveness of the slayings paper over a very thin and familiar storyline.
It's a truly creepy concept which, inevitably, leaves room for a sequel.
People are cut, tongues meet pliers and at one point a cat gets sliced in half. Beyond that, there's very little here.
A nerve-fraying new take on the home-invasion horror.
Sick is the word.
The Collector must be the laziest horror film of the year - the camerawork stinks, the action's boring and the plot holes are so glaring they wouldn't get past a lobotomised goose.
Dunstan makes his directorial debut with this fast-paced, suspenseful horror that wastes no time on pointless exposition, but instead tosses plenty of genuinely tense moments into this primal fear-fest.
Cat lovers: this is not your film - a nasty fate awaits the household moggy. Alas, poor Tiddles.
The Collector won't join the pantheon of horror movie monsters - unless somebody lowers the bar down to the ground.
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Foreign Titles
- The Collector (2009) (DE)
- Collector, The (2011) (UK)
