THE COLLECTOR - (2009)
The Collector really concentrates on getting it's gory maiming and killing just right, but don't spend too long trying to figure why the masked monster in this movie "collects" people, or how his whole "bait" thing (a person in a box) works. Ahh, doesn't matter. The Collector likes to invade people's homes, and torture family members - but his real gimmick is all the traps he sets throughout the house. A kind of unreasonable number of traps that consist of razor-wire, razor blades, knives, spikes, acid, bear traps etc - devilish traps that'll cause grievous injury. Lucky for one family, they're being robbed. Arkin O’Brien (Josh Stewart) needs money bad. When he discovers what's going on, he tries to rescue various members of this family - something he's terrible at. Usually, when he unties someone and they follow his plan they end up dead - and I think "hey, they'd have been better off without this guy." Oh boy - in this there's disemboweling, disfigurement, finger amputation, mouths sewn shut, stabbing, burning, shooting, beating, cutting. Lots of blood. This is the kind of movie that gives it's audience what they want - buckets of blood. There's no skimping - but I would have liked the whole conceit to make some kind of sense. Every time we find out about what the monster does - locking people in boxes, "collecting" them, using them as "bait" - it's not explored at all and doesn't really add up to a fully thought-out concept.
Animal cruelty warning - When Arkin stumbles upon a cat stuck in sticky acid, painfully dying, it kind of bothered me. Funnily enough though, Arkin tries to save the cat, and ends up killing it - just like with every other member of this family. He throws it out the window, where a trap chops it in two. Not my favourite part of the movie.
Discomfort : 8/10
Art : 2/10
Weird : 7/10
Fun : 6/10
Interesting : 3/10
Enjoyable : 6/10
Exciting : 6/10
Overall : 6/10
Art : 2/10
Weird : 7/10
Fun : 6/10
Interesting : 3/10
Enjoyable : 6/10
Exciting : 6/10
Overall : 6/10
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