The Collector starts out introducing the killer. A couple comes home and they find a box in their room, they open it then are attacked. What follows that is probably the best opening credit scene I have seen in a while, a small compliment I know. It starts out with Arkin (Josh Stewart) fixing up a house with a number of other people. He spends some time with the families youngest daughter. He leaves after getting paid and goes to a bowling center to meet his daughter. His ex wife asked him for "the money". Arkin hands her some but she yells that it's not enough. See his ex wife has loan sharks out for her and she has til midnight to get the money. So Arkin meets up with Ray, a fellow robber, mainly his boss. And they agree to rob the house Arkin was helping fix up because Arkin knows where the safe to the house is. Now what follows is actually very good. He walks in and starts doing his thing, then he hears a man walk up the stares, he freaks and goes in to the closet. And the man follows him for most of the first 30mins trying to find him.
The movie is also shot very well. It has it's own style to it that I think sets it apart in the genre. The way it shows each trap being done is stunning, a lot of work went into each one and it shows.
This will definitely be the next big horror franchise. It surpassed the Saw movies in some ways. But The Collector is the the new Jigsaw hands down. There were only four people in the theater when I saw it at 12:25pm, and that's sad. This movie is much better then some people might think.
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