Relentlessly bloody and just as relentlessly idiotic deathtrap thriller for the Saw crowd.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 30, 2010

This is a crass, silly and baffling slice of torture porn -- with the audience being tortured, chiefly with boredom.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2010

It's a truly creepy concept which, inevitably, leaves room for a sequel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2010

A nerve-fraying new take on the home-invasion horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2010

The Collector must be the laziest horror film of the year - the camerawork stinks, the action's boring and the plot holes are so glaring they wouldn't get past a lobotomised goose.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 24, 2010

Watching The Collector becomes an experience not so much of dread as big virtual ouches.

| Oct 30, 2009

If you didn't already know The Collector was written by two Saw franchise hacks, and directed by one of them, it would soon become as obvious as a fish hook to the face.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 30, 2009

A sub-Saw knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant.

| Original Score: D | Aug 5, 2009

This is the sort of cheap bilking that separates completists from masochists; the brief suffering onscreen is nothing compared with the agony scary-movie buffs will feel after being so thoroughly cheated.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 5, 2009

One of the more doltish entries in the torture subgenre.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 3, 2009

One trap leaves a woman impaled on a movie screen, producing an image that succinctly if literally sums up a genre's cynicism.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Aug 3, 2009

The early scenes promise a potentially novel cross between heist and extreme horror, but those hopes are quickly dashed.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 31, 2009

Critiquing the filmic technique of this blatant horror franchise-bait is akin to quibbling with the shade of lipstick on a slaughtered pig.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 31, 2009

A surprisingly stylish and confident high-concept thriller.

| Jul 31, 2009

The Collector grafts a torture porn payoff onto a heist thriller setup with messy, illogical results.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2009

The Collector feels like the final, welcome nail in the bizarrely popular torture-porn coffin.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 31, 2009

The Collector signals much of what's wrong with torture porn.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 26, 2009