The Collector (2009/I)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Marcus Dunstan

Writers (WGA):

Patrick Melton (screenplay) &
Marcus Dunstan (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

31 July 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

He always takes one

Plot:

Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps. |

Plot Keywords:

Debt | Trap | Hidden Safe | Acid | Fall Through Staircase

Cast

Madeline Zima	...	Jill
Josh Stewart	...	Arkin
Daniella Alonso	...	Lisa
Andrea Roth	...	Victoria
Robert Wisdom	...	Roy
Michael Reilly Burke	...	Michael
Juan Fernández	...	The Collector
Gregory Alan Williams	...	Sheriff
Diane Ayala Goldner	...	Gena Wharton
Krystal Mayo	...	Dancer
Haley Pullos	...	Cindy (as Haley Alexis Pullos)
Karley Scott Collins	...	Hannah
Alex Feldman	...	Chad
Michael Showers	...	Deputy sheriff
Hiro Koda	...	Medic #2
Bill Stinchcomb	...	Bar Patron
Jabari Thomas	...	Medic
Eric Kelly McFarland	...	Firefighter
Brett Forbes	...	Office Hoss Wiggins
Colvin Roberson	...	Roy's Driver / Bodyguard
John Snell	...	Yard Worker

Also Known As:

The Midnight Man (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive sadistic bloody violence, language and some sexuality/nudity.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #45306) | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Manitoba)

Filming Locations:

Mansfield, Louisiana, USA

Company:

Fortress Features

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scene where the collector is to be electrocuted with the television and fish tank, the power is supposed to be off in the house.

Why bother with a plot anyway?

Great... the writers of SAW make a movie involving a killer and a house full of traps. Sounds like someone is either pretty low on new ideas or wants to cash off an idea that was exploited to the max. If anyone thinks the last SAW Movies were dumb (which I heard from some) they should watch "The collector". There is some excuse of a plot involving a guy in debt breaking into a house just to stumble across its mutilated inhabitants and a guy with a freaky mask and too much time on his hands which he spends on putting up a thousand traps for 4 people.

Imagine... "The collector" spends a whole day filling a house with traps, then chaining up its inhabitants and torturing them?? Why the traps.... ding, of course he's messing with the burglar. Thats smart isn't it? Well, smart enough to hide that the movie basically has nothing going for it but a dark house with lots of knifes, razorblades, nails and wires (oh, and acid) that lead up to several gory and sadistic scenes. Its dumb and I am really bored of watching a movie that basically is just exploiting some torture scenes.