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The Collector

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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. He soon learns that he picked the wrong night to carry out his plans, for a masked madman has gotten there first, imprisoned the family, and lined the mansion with deadly traps.
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Increasingly tedious displays of gore makes this torture porn home-invasion-horror more programmatic than provocative.

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Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Relentlessly bloody and just as relentlessly idiotic deathtrap thriller for the Saw crowd. Rated: 1/5 Jun 30, 2010 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian This is a crass, silly and baffling slice of torture porn -- with the audience being tortured, chiefly with boredom. Rated: 1/5 Jun 25, 2010 Full Review Kat Halstead Little White Lies It's a truly creepy concept which, inevitably, leaves room for a sequel. Rated: 3/5 Jun 25, 2010 Full Review Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh After years of being punished with Saw sequels, The Collector manages to offer up a more compelling version of a similar formula, while adding a home-invasion spin to the terror. Rated: 4/5 Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review You can’t laugh at it. It won’t scare you. So the only reason to watch is for a gore fix. Rated: 0.5/4 Sep 4, 2023 Full Review Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight For horror fans hoping to find a new slasher to engage with, The Collector is not likely the answer. Rated: 1.5/4 Dec 6, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member This movie is one of the most thrilling experiences ever. The gore, traps and characters are very good. I really liked it. Ending was a bit weak but rest is beatiful! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/29/24 Full Review Alexis J Home Alone for adults that like gore and industrial music and grainy camera Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/12/24 Full Review Charles C With fairly enjoyable lead character, a horror icon that has potential, gruesome gore effects and eerie lighting, make horror version of home alone a underrated horror gem. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/31/24 Full Review Jules N Un film qui ne réinvente pas le genre et qui utilise ce qui fonctionnait le mieux à l'époque (torture-porn), mais qui à l'honneur de bien le faire. Une ambiance très oppressante et glauque est assez vite mise en place. De plus le concept du collectionneur est plutôt original mais sera surtout approfondi dans le second film… Très bon film. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/03/24 Full Review Priyan B Felt a bit stretched at the end and I don't like the ending but overall movie is decent. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/24 Full Review Andrea C Horror cupo e con una trama più elaborata di quello che vuole far credere allo spettatore che vi si approccia. Le atmosfere particolarmente buie rendono difficile l'elaborazione del progetto che ovviamente deve vivere di luci artificiali che talvolta sono un po' troppo macroscopiche. Tutto sommato la sceneggiatura è sempre ben sviluppata anche se ovviamente con una trama del genere le forzature sono continue e abbastanza evidenti; solo a tratti però marchiane e mal gestite. Il finale è un ottimo colpo di scena, anche questo non da sottovalutare. Gli attori, ad eccezione del protagonista, sono davvero difficili da guardare purtroppo. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis 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. He soon learns that he picked the wrong night to carry out his plans, for a masked madman has gotten there first, imprisoned the family, and lined the mansion with deadly traps.
Director
Marcus Dunstan
Producer
Brett Forbes, Julie Richardson, Patrick Rizzotti
Screenwriter
Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan
Distributor
Freestyle Releasing
Production Co
Fortress Features
Rating
R (Perv. Sadistic Bloody Violence|Language|Some Sexuality/Nudity)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 31, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 6, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA)
$7.7M
Runtime
1h 28m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
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