me-76619
Awful and boring. Not anywhere near as good as the Saw films.
NateWatchesCoolMovies
The Collector is a booby trap rigged horror flick that not only gives Saw a run for it's money, but outdoes it in the atmosphere department. This is one seriously spooky film, made so by it's eerie, claustrophobia ridden single-location setting, elaborate and maximum pain inflicting terror traps and burnished, browned out cinematography that gives it it's own aesthetic. In a creaky old heritage mansion, a cat burglar leads his team from room to room, robbing the place to pay back a hefty debt owing to his ex-wife. Only problem is, they're not alone in there. Stalking through the shadows is a silent, mask wearing phantom with a fucked up bag of tricks and a disconcerting leather face mask. Each new hallway or edifice finds them falling into one of his gory, well staged snares, from razor wire to full on bear traps and every gnarly device in between. It's never really clear who he is or why he's there save for a minuscule expository scene that you'll miss if you blink, but it's scarier that way in most cases, he could be robbing the place too for all they know and he's just getting territorial. The film is a shadow laced game of spider and fly, as each individual finally realizes they're no match for this fiend. Terrifically well made horror outing, but avoid the sequel (unimaginably called The Collection), as it takes everything that works so well here and shines a silly, noisy spotlight on it. This one will work you over and spit you out a clammy, nervous mess after it's 90 minute stranglehold has had it's way with you.
D Rahul Raj Jsd
It's Friday night, so I felt like watching this horror thriller, in the torture porn genre. The first film directed by Marcus Dunstan, and who also wrote the screenplay along with Patrick Melton. They are known for writing screenplays for Saw 4 - 7 and Feast series. Starring Josh Stewart, Juan Fernandez, Michael Reilly Burke, Karley Scott Collins, Andrea Roth, Madeline Zima, Daniella Alonso, Robert Wisdom, Diane Goldner, William Praed, and others. Awesome performance by the cast, great special effects by Gary J. Tunnicliffe and a creepy cool soundtrack. This is a scary, gory film filled with suspense and will keep you shivering till the very end. The first time I saw it, late at night, it scared the hell out of me and even my Mum was entertained by this movie, although she hates anything to do with horror. Absolutely brilliant, beyond amazing and a masterpiece. This is the twelfth time I've watched it and it is one of my favorite movies and horror icons of all time. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out, be sure to stay until the end credits and there's also a sequel.
Redvers Whitehead
This is a horror film of the home invasion/splatter type. Premise is simple, a guy goes to burgle a house to pay off his wife's debts to a loan shark and has the misfortune of arriving at the same time as a sadistic killer.The central gimmick of the film is that the killer lays an array of elaborate booby traps around the house, it's absurd, so many traps are laid in so little time, including nails protruding from the stairs and boards across the windows, things that no one could have possibly done without making some sound.Anyway the killer wears a mask, doesn't speak and takes people down into the basement of the house, which looks amazingly apt as a serial killer's torture dungeon considering it's not the killer's house. So upstairs you get people falling into booby traps and down in the basement is where the film takes its time to really dwell on the killer's sadism.That's pretty much it as far as story goes, well there's also some guy in a box who mentions that the killer kills those he doesn't want and takes those he does want for his 'collection', but this isn't developed on at all. The killer isn't interesting, just detestable in a very straight forward way. It feels like they played with the idea of having an actual concept for about 5 minutes and then just fell back on plain old sadism and gore.I'm a big fan of horror but this just seemed half-baked, a film with no ideas other than traps and ways to torture people. It's a frustrating, obnoxious film that feels like it's being rubbed in your face.Objectively I'll admit that this deserves more than 1/10, it's at least technically competent, the acting is good enough and so on, but I feel so annoyed by having wasted my time watching something that's so nasty in such an unimaginative, boring way that I'm giving it 1/10.
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