The Collector (2009)

• Year: 2009
• Released: 31 Jul 2009
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844479/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/The_Collector
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-collector
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan
• Director: Marcus Dunstan
• Cast: Josh Stewart, Andrea Roth, Juan Fernández
• Keywords: slasher, gore, psychopath, torture, fight,

	6.3/10
	29/100

The Collector Storyline

When the Chase family moves to an isolated house in the middle of nowhere in Detroit, Arkin is hired to fix the windows and the doors. Later he meets his daughter and his wife that has a debt with dangerous sharks and needs money, but his week payment is not enough to pay her debts. Arkin plots to heist the safe of Michael Chase during the night to raise the necessary money. However, when he arrives in the house, he finds that a sadistic criminal has imprisoned the family and planted traps everywhere. Arkin seeks a way out of the deadly house to save his life.

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The Collector Movie Reviews

No holds barred blood, violence and extreme cruelty

For years I always thought there was only one Collector movie, or maybe two if you included a movie I dimly recall from the 1960s, one which was interesting if not all that scary. Then I discovered I’d seen The Collection (2012), a diabolical assault upon a nightclub, from memory, one to rival Saw. It was an easy enough mistake, as both Collector and Collection have almost identical dvd covers. I’ve just watched The Collector. WOW! Eat your heart out Saw, as Collector is more thrilling, just as diabolical, and just a tad crueler, the essential difference being that the perpetrator in Saw is something of a ‘justice vigilante’, whereas The Collector’s fiend is just plain evil. A nervous watch for sure, and easily worth a 10.

Home Alone for gorehounds

THE COLLECTOR is a middling torture porn-based horror flick with an absolutely ridiculous story. The premise is just as nonsensical as in BURNING BRIGHT – you know, the film about a girl and her little brother trapped in a house with a TIGER – but even more so due to its complexity. The story sees a burglar entering the house of a rich family in the middle of the night, only to discover a crazed killer has set up home and filled the house with deadly traps.

It makes no sense and there’s no attempt to try to rationalise or explain things. Instead we embark on a horror-themed journey in which death and bodily mutilation are the order of the day. The plotting is very slim and the characters even slimmer, with the supporting cast merely set up as cannon fodder for the admittedly creepy villain.

What I disliked about this film was the dark blue filter which gives it a boring, uniform look, and the lack of lighting means that you’ll be straining your eyes throughout. Given this was made by people coming off the SAW franchise, the icky effects are very much along those lines; I’m indifferent to them. THE COLLECTOR has a fast pace going for it but there are too many contrivances to make it a truly effective horror piece.

Saw wannabe

The Collector is a sadistic killer who takes over a home, tortures the family, and kidnaps one person in his giant trunk. The Chases (Michael Reilly Burke, Andrea Roth, Karley Scott Collins, Madeline Zima) have just moved in to their nice house. Arkin (Josh Stewart) is the handyman. He is desperate for money to pay back his wife’s debt to loan shark. So he breaks into the Chase house while the family is away. The problem is the Collector has other plans.

This thing has more plot problems than 10 Michael Bay movies. Why the collector would plant such elaborate traps in the house is beyond me. Where would he even find the time? If one is willing to drop the logic, this could be seen as a different take on the Saw franchise. It’s overly elaborate for no reason. But unlike Saw, the whole thing is one simple action away from total collapse. At his best, the Collector can never be sure of his control. He keeps getting interrupted by people coming in. Simply put, he’s bad at his work.

If I forget all the complaints. The action is pretty good. The actors are great. The kills are fun. It’s a good way to waste 90 minutes for horror fans.