torstensonjohn When people render film reviews many will go into who played what and why or talk about the personal biased towards certain performances. I try to avoid the whole realm of your typical film reviews.The truth about this movie is it is simple. Not truly scary or in the Genre of Horror- it has a draw from SAW but that is where it ends. The basis for the plot is generic at best, a man goes to rob a place to pay off loan sharks for wife and gets caught in a web of sadistic torture. The house this takes place in, come on, way to small of a house to hold that many traps, and when did this killer have the time to set up these traps when the sub text this was all supposed to take place within a day. Although I did like the story itself, Josh Stewart was terrible acting wise in this. To many things seem to get swept to the side, and there are obvious points the writer and directors left out for speculation. The traps were interesting as they were to inflict the most pain. I give this a somber 5

dsalouk The collector is a typically frustrating horror film, focusing on needless gore and creating character deaths from character stupidity rather than ingenuity. It plays with ideas that break the flow, and has characters play out scenes unrealistically and predictably. The collector has a plot in disarray, trying to complete a few interwoven plot details that are clumsily put together. It has an atmosphere that promises potential suspense, but constantly plays out the wrong way when the right way seems a single action away. Being Marcus Dunstan's debut film, and seeing his filmography since, it is no wonder it is so poorly created. In it silliness, it is a bore and an effort to watch.

a_baron This is a familiar theme, bad guy in the house doing bad things and the damsel doing her best to outfox him. There is a slight twist here because rather than just a damsel there is another bad guy turned hero. Well, he isn't such a bad guy, he's burglarising the place out of necessity - his wife is in deep debt to the mob, and he needs the money for her. Clearly he's done this sort of thing before, burglarising, not saving the day, and when he effects entry he stumbles onto a bloodbath. Obviously it's a big house, the damsel is the youngest daughter of the man he has just been working for. Got that? Good, because the rest of it is too silly for words.Okay, if you are into special effects, you might get something out of seeing fingers chopped off and the like, and if you are into pure sadism, better to live it vicariously than do it for real, but the house is boobytrapped to such an extent you'd have to ask if a dozen people could have done this in the time allotted rather than just one. There is no real plot, the masked villain has either superpowers or supernatural powers, and the ending is too silly for words.

PimpinAinttEasy Dear Marcus Dunstan, jeez man! I do not understand this sort of mindless gore fest without any character development or other interesting cinematic elements. It was almost as if you couldn't wait to introduce the characters and get that part out of the way so that you could start with the violence. You ought to watch some Rob Zombie movies or something.The film did start off quite well. Josh Stewart is a reasonably good actor. His interaction with the family whose house he works at and his wife were at least mildly engaging.I guess your film is not without merit. You do have your own unique style. The atmosphere cultivated by screaming and breathing of the psycho and loud background score. The staged violence as a result of many traps set in the house. But it is all pretty over the top and relentless and gets boring very soon.Best Regards, Pimpin.