Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Josh StewartArkin
- Juan FernándezThe Collector
- Michael Reilly BurkeMichael Chase
- Madeline ZimaJill Chase
- Andrea RothVictoria Chase
- Karley Scott CollinsHannah Chase
- Robert WisdomRoy
- Daniella AlonsoLisa
- Haley PullosCindy
- Diane Ayala GoldnerGena Wharton
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
With both feet planted firmly on the sticky accelerator of the torture-porn vehicle, The Collector is a surprisingly stylish and confident high-concept thriller. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Either you go for this sort of extreme, senseless gore or you don't. With its plot and lead performance, The Collector is, at least, an unusual specimen. - 50
L.A. Weekly
Making his directorial debut, Dunstan displays a knack for building suspense. And yet, weirdly, amidst all the requisite blood spray, one senses a reluctance on the filmmaker’s part to linger lovingly over the pierced skins and protruding entrails of the killer’s various victims. - 42
The A.V. Club
For his directorial debut, The Collector, Dunstan streamlines the "Saw" concept slightly by silencing the killer and focusing more intently on a house that’s been converted into a jury-rigged deathtrap. - 30
Austin Chronicle
The Collector feels like the final, welcome nail in the bizarrely popular torture-porn coffin. - 30
Chicago Reader
As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked Collector in a maze of lethal invention--the Spanish Inquisition as imagined by Rube Goldberg--while trying to rescue the very family he came to rob. - 25
Entertainment Weekly
The result is a sub-"Saw" knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
In the absence of a sturdy, plausible foundation on which to hook all those grisly bits, the film, originally a Dimension release, tends to play out more like a protracted "Saw" outtake reel.
