The Collector
Desperate for money to pay off a debt, a man targets a wealthy family's home and plans to break in and steal a valuable gem, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
10 July 1998, Palo Alto, California, USA
1 September 1956
1977, Beverly Hills, California, USA
30 September 1967, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
14 September 1953, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
22 September 1978, New York City, New York, USA
14 March 1966, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
7 July 1988, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
16 August 1982, Arlington, Texas, USA
19 October 1979, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
13 December 1956, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
16 September 1985, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
November 14, 1968 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
12 June 1956, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
31 January 1974, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
27 June 1964, California, USA
July 12, 2012
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.
October 30, 2009
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.
August 03, 2009
One trap leaves a woman impaled on a movie screen, producing an image that succinctly if literally sums up a genre's cynicism.
February 03, 2011
It's not a classic, but I have a good feeling about The Collector as a new horror villain with a bit of mileage...
November 08, 2015
Plays like a collection of outtakes from some "Saw" script that never saw the light of day (or, heaven forbid, has yet to be made).
October 30, 2009
Watching The Collector becomes an experience not so much of dread as big virtual ouches.
August 05, 2009
A sub-Saw knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant.
January 26, 2014
Felt a little bit dirty watching this ugly looking, stale bit of plotless torture porn.
August 10, 2010
Delivers gruesomeness but not a whole lot else.
August 03, 2009
One of the more doltish entries in the torture subgenre.
October 27, 2010
Some of the most fiercely inventive and twisted trap-based bloodletting we've had in ages.
August 05, 2009
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.
