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With all the snow coming in tonight and the weekend meaning I’ll be stuck at home all weekend I stopped at Blockbuster on the way home and hunted up something to see. I ended up with Marcus Dunstan’s The Collector.

This looked interesting, sort of, and was done by the people behind Saw IV, Saw V, and Saw VI. It isn’t as good as Saw. In Saw you saw twisted stuff, but at the end of it you sort of understood what was going on and maybe a glimmer of why. It was a morality thing. This movie, I’m really not sure why all this happened or what for. It just happened.

Basically a handyman is working a job and notices where the home owner (a jewelry guy) has a safe. He also happens for be a freelance safe-cracker at night. So he arranges to sell what he gets and goes back that night to get it. He knows the home owner has left town for two weeks. But he hasn’t. Someone has invaded the house, set up loads of traps and is torturing the family in the basement. The thief-handyman suddenly turns good guy and tries to save the family.

Insert tons of gore, blood, hurts, cuts, violence and sadistic torture and that’s pretty much the story. Some of you may really like this, but I’ll just say that it isn’t for many people. If you liked Saw because you felt it was clever, then stay away from this unless you truly love gory stuff. Honestly I watched an episode of the Sopranos afterwards and so my evening wasn’t a total waste.

Josh Stewart stars.

Rated R. 88 minutes (1 hour 28 minutes). Profanity. Nudity (topless female strippers and a almost sex scene with some great boobs – interrupted by a killer, yikes!) Gore and gratuitous blood. Not for the squeamish. I’m not especially squeamish and this amount of gore was almost too much for me.