The Collector

Walking around the local Family Video, almost every newer horror movie on the shelf says from the creators of Saw, or from the writers of saw one, three, or five, or any number of the seemingly endless sequels that exist in the franchise. Let me say this right now, stop, no one cares who wrote the sequels of Saw, they weren’t good, and certainly the writing and dialogue was the weakest part. I know that I have really no room to talk, but there are just so many boxes that feature this prominently. That said, I did take home a movie like this called The Collector. It written by the guys who wrote Saw IV through VII, but what confuses me is that they also did the Feast trilogy, which is to me a much better film series, it does not take its self seriously, much of it is played for laughs, and unlike a lot of horror movies, the jokes actually work. Doesn’t matter, back to The Collector, this movie is not funny, like at all. It revolves around a man named Arkin, a reformed criminal, who is working on a house in the country, it turns out that his ex wife owes people money, so Arkin decides to rob the family that he is working for. He breaks into the house to discover that the house has been booby trapped, and that someone else is there trying to both kill or collect family members. Ok so kind of a silly plot, and the more you think about it the dumber the idea of setting up such intricate booby traps is, but somehow I didn’t hate it. I didn’t hate it to the point that I kind of liked it. Arkin is such a good character, he is so likeable, because he does have so much heart. I can’t spoil you any more, but this movie is worth watching for any horror fan, or I guess anyone who wanted to see an adult version of the Mcully Kulkin Home Alone movies.