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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.

Genre: Horror/Suspense

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... 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 already laid claim to the property – and the family. As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked “Collector” in a maze of lethal invention – the Spanish Inquisition as imagined by Rube Goldberg – while trying to rescue the very family he came to rob.

The project, produced by Fortress Features’ Brett Forbes and Patrick Rizzotti and Imaginarium Entertainment Group’s Julie Richardson, stars Josh Stewart (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Criminal Minds), Daniella Alonso (Friday Night Lights, The Hills Have Eyes 2), Michael Reilly Burke (Lincoln Heights, 24), Andrea Roth (Rescue Me, War), Madeline Zima (Californication, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), Karley Scott-Collins (Pulse 2, The Class), Robert Wisdom (The Wire, The Forgotten) and Juan Fernandez (The Lost City, A Man Apart). --© Freestyle [More]

Starring: Madeline Zima, Andrea Roth, Daniella Alonso, Robert Wisdom

Starring: Madeline Zima, Andrea Roth, Daniella Alonso, Robert Wisdom, Josh Stewart, Michael Reilly Burke

Director: Marcus Dunstan

Director: Marcus Dunstan
Screenwriter: Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan
Studio: Freestyle Releasing

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...a gritty and downright brutal horror-movie endeavor...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
11/07/09
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

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 Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
10/30/09
Jim Slotek
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies

Watching The Collector becomes an experience not so much of dread as big virtual ouches.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
10/30/09
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail

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 Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
10/30/09
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star

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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
10/22/09
Film Threat

How I clamor for a contemporary horror film that understands that extreme gore does not equal genuine scariness.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
08/31/09
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Once things get rolling it's actually decent. But the first 25 minutes are flat and boring. Can't quite recommend it.

Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | comment Comment
08/16/09
Austin Kennedy
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

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 Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
08/14/09
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

I was somewhat startled to discover that it actually has a few intriguing qualities amidst the blood and guts.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/07/09
Peter Sobczynski
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com

A sub-Saw knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment 2 Comments
08/05/09
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

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 Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
08/05/09
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

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 Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
08/05/09
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Grisly horror film is smothered in blood and gore.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment Comment
08/03/09
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Common Sense Media

One of the more doltish entries in the torture subgenre.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
08/03/09
Jeannette Catsoulis
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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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 Source: Boston Globe | comment 1 Comment
08/03/09
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

The torture never stops.

Full Review Source: MTV | comment Comment
08/03/09
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
MTV

A simple, basic, fast-paced horror thriller that wastes nary a frame on unnecessary set-up, languid exposition, or pointless subplots.

Full Review Source: FEARnet | comment Comment
08/03/09
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
FEARnet

what happens when Dario Argento's Suspiria gives Elmore Leonard a drunken booty call.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/02/09
Keith Breese
Keith Breese
Filmcritic.com

There's some torture, a lot of blood, some deaths, the usual routine, but without any suspense or ingenuity.

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment 1 Comment
08/02/09
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
Film.com

There is no reason on earth 'The Collector' exists.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
08/01/09
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
 
 
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