me-76619 Awful and boring. Not anywhere near as good as the Saw films.

Davis P The Collector (2009) is a very thrilling horror film that will keep every member of the audience on the edge of their seat dying to know what happens next. This is a horror movie that's not for everyone though, because of how graphic and realistic it is at times. The actors are well cast and I think they do a great job with their roles. The main character had just enough depth and backstory for the audience to care about what happens to him. I liked the set up for how the house and everything was set up. The house was basically rigged as one giant death trap by the antagonist, the collector. The thrill factor is very high. In my opinion, this movie is far more thrilling and anxiety inducing than it is scary. I wasn't all that scared by it, but it did cause me to be on the edge of my seat. If you're looking for a good thrilling horror movie that is well acted, then I would suggest this one. I have not seen the sequel, the collection, but I plan on it. I'm interested to see where they take it, I'm hoping it picks up right where this film leaves off. And I won't spoil anything for anyone, but I'm hoping this movie's ending gets a little more closure. 8/10 for The Collector.

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.

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.