An ex-con and would-be thief is a family's only hope as a twisted maniac sets a bloodcurdling trap in this inventive horror from the minds behind the Saw franchise.
The Collector (2010)
This film plays out like a sub-Saw film, the main screen time being taken up with gory scenes of sadistic torture and bloody traps. It's a modern film and the effects and psychological progress follows the same thread as any graphic horror film of the last decade.
However, this film is fatally flawed and when I watched it, I thought I had missed the first twenty minutes of it or that this was a sequel to a previous film. The tortured family are mere cyphers and there is no reason or motive of why they are the Collector's targets.
As for the Collector himself - why kill the family? Who is he? Is it sadistic pleasure or is it personal revenge? Will he kill again? Is he indiscriminate and random or organised and calculated?
Arkin is the key lead character, at first robbing the family and then trying to help them escape but he is fairly non-descript and bland. As for the mum, dad and little girl and even the Collector himself, there is no any character definition and I found I couldn't connect with anyone.
Overall, I can't recommend this film other than for a gory hour or so of entertainment. There have been many films with unanswered questions, leading to exceptional sequels (such as The Matrix, Back to the Future, and Saw). However, all those films had one thing in common - they could stand up on their own as a self-contained work. The Collector falls down badly in this respect.
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After a stint in prison, Arkin finds employment as a handyman. But Arkin decides to rob his boss in order to repay his ex-wife. 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.
Another addition to the 'torture porn' horror genre penned by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, the writing team behind the 'Saw' horror franchise. Josh Stewart stars as Arkin, a down-on-his-luck handyman who, desperate to pay off a debt to his ex-wife, plans to rob the safe at the country mansion home of his employer, a famous jeweller. Unfortunately for him, the property has already been rigged with a series of lethal booby traps by a second criminal: the silent, masked serial killer known only as 'The Collector' (Juan Fernandez), who likes to keep his terror-stricken, eviscerated victims alive for as long as possible while he inflicts his ever more inventive forms of torture upon them.
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