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( September 2015 ) The Collector Theatrical release poster Directed by Marcus Dunstan Produced by Brett Forbes Julie Richardson Patrick Rizzotti Christopher Lockhart Written by Marcus Dunstan Patrick Melton Starring Josh Stewart Michael Reilly Burke Andrea Roth Juan Fernandez Karley Scott Collins Madeline Zima Robert Wisdom Music by Jerome Dillon Nathaniel Caserta Cinematography Brandon Cox Edited by Alex Luna James Mastracco Production company Fortress Features Neo Art & Logic Imaginarium Entertainment Group Distributed by Freestyle Releasing LD Entertainment Release date July 31, 2009 ( 2009 - 07 - 31 ) Running time 90 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $3 million Box office $9.44 million The Collector is a 2009 American horror film written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, and directed by Dunstan. The script, titled The Midnight Man, was at one point shopped as a prequel to the Saw franchise, but the producers opposed the idea and dismissed it. A sequel, The Collection, was released in 2012. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Release 4 Reception 4.1 Critical reviews 4.2 Box office 5 Sequel 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Plot A man named Larry and his wife return home to find the power is out. They discover a large box upstairs, and are horrified by its contents. They are then attacked by an unseen assailant. Arkin O'Brien is an ex-convict working as a handyman. His latest customers are the Chase family. He is generally well - liked by the Chases, particularly their younger daughter Hannah. While working at the Chase home, Arkin notices several strange insects around the house. After work, Arkin meets his wife, whose debt to several loan sharks is due by midnight. In order to protect her and their daughter, Arkin plans a heist at the Chase home, which houses a valuable ruby. He breaks in, but as he attempts to crack the safe, a masked figure enters in the house and locks the door. Michael, the father, appears injured, and attempts to attack Arkin with a golf club, thinking Arkin is the perpetrator. However, Michael is incapacitated by a trap rigged with the club, and the masked man drags Michael into the basement. Arkin attempts to call 911, but the phone is rigged with another trap, and the windows have been boarded up and lined with razors, making escape impossible. Arkin retreats to the basement ; Michael informs him that his wife Victoria is trapped as well, his older daughter Jill is out, and Hannah is hiding somewhere, and that a gun is in the safe, giving him the combination. Arkin then finds a captive Victoria and has her distract the intruder while he goes upstairs to get to the safe. Upon opening the safe, Arkin gets the gun ( which has no bullets ) and pockets the ruby. While searching for Hannah, he finds the same box from the beginning of the film. Hearing noises coming from the box, he opens it to find a bloodied Larry, who explains that the masked man is a `` collector '' of people ; he only collects one person in a household and kills everyone else like he did to his wife. For the people he does not collect, he brutally tortures them until death. Horrified, Arkin unsuccessfully tries to escape, while the Collector locks Larry back in the trunk. Arkin goes back downstairs and discovers Michael dead. He goes to Victoria, who had been tortured, and frees her. They try to escape the basement, but after Victoria notices Michael 's corpse, she panics and runs into the Collector, who stabs her multiple times, injuring her, and throws her back downstairs. Shortly after, Jill arrives home with her boyfriend Chad. As the two prepare to have sex on the kitchen table, they notice the Collector watching them. Chad attacks him but is killed when he is pushed into a room filled with several bear traps. Jill is captured, but she manages to make a 911 call before being taken. Using an alarm clock as a distraction, Arkin frees Jill, but she does n't trust him and is killed by a trap when she reaches for a pair of scissors. Arkin eventually decides to escape the house, but in the process, he sees Hannah in the window with the Collector coming her way. Refusing to leave her behind, he reenters the house and prepares a trap to kill the Collector with Hannah. However, the Collector uses Larry as a decoy, so the trap kills Larry instead. Arkin then sends Hannah down a laundry chute to the basement where she hides. Before Arkin can go down the chute, the Collector attacks and knocks out Arkin. The Collector then takes Arkin captive and brutally tortures him. A police officer responding to Jill 's 911 call tries to arrest the Collector and is killed by the Collector 's dog, but manages to call for backup before dying. The distraction gives Arkin time to free himself, but he discovers Victoria dead and armed explosives in the basement. After killing the Collector 's dog with a flaming bucket and trapping the Collector in one of his own traps, Arkin finally escapes with Hannah. Arkin, seeing several approaching police cars, runs into the road to get their attention but is accidentally hit by one of the cars. While lying injured in the road he sees Hannah being scooped to safety by one of the policeman. An injured Arkin tells a police officer that the Collector was an exterminator also working at the Chase house. The explosives promptly detonate and destroy the house, but the Collector is seen running away from the house unharmed. While Arkin is being taken to the hospital in an ambulance, he discovers that the ruby is still in his pocket. He begs the paramedic to call his wife, but before he can, something unknown suddenly slams into the ambulance, flipping it over. The ambulance doors swing open revealing the Collector, who had escaped from the burning house undetected. After murdering the injured paramedic, he then kidnaps Arkin by dragging him out of the overturned ambulance and locking him in the box before driving away in his van. In a post-credits scene, the Collector is sitting on the box while watching film slides. Inside, Arkin is heard screaming that he will kill him once he gets out ; the Collector then kicks the box to shut him up. Cast Josh Stewart as Arkin Michael Reilly Burke as Michael Chase Andrea Roth as Victoria Chase Juan Fernández as The Collector Karley Scott Collins as Hannah Chase Daniella Alonso as Lisa Haley Pullos as Cindy William Prael as Larry Wharton Diane Ayala Goldner as Gena Wharton Alex Feldman as Chad Madeline Zima as Jill Chase Robert Wisdom as Roy Release The film was theatrically released on July 31, 2009 in the United States, and on DVD on April 6, 2010. A rental version was made available February 12, 2010, through Blockbuster Video 's Exclusive Line. The DVD includes two deleted scenes, and also an alternative ending which is Arkin leaving after seeing Hannah in the window -- thus cutting off the remaining 25 minutes of the film. Reception Critical reviews The Collector was met with generally negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 30 %, based on 70 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2 / 10. The site 's general consensus reads, `` Increasingly tedious displays of gore makes this torture porn home - invasion - horror more programmatic than provocative. '' On Metacritic, the film has a score of 29 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating `` generally unfavorable reviews ''. Clay Clane of BET noted that, `` You will squirm, but are n't we getting a bit desensitized to these routine torture flicks ? It 's like seeing a pop songstress get naked for the billionth time -- yeah, she 's hot, but we have all seen it before. '' Bloody Disgusting gave the film a 3.5 / 5 and wrote that The Collector is `` a raw, gritty and uncompromising horror film that puts the previous Saw film to shame. '' The reviewer also believed that the character of the Collector had the potential to become a new horror icon. Box Office On the opening day, the film opened in 1,325 theaters, grossing $1,325,000. The film has grossed $7,712,114. Sequel Main article : The Collection ( film ) Speaking about a sequel, Patrick Melton said in an interview : I did n't think it necessarily would happen because while the movie did well for its budget, it certainly was n't a blockbuster, but it did well enough that the film 's producer, Mickey Liddell, wants to make a sequel and of course wants me and Marcus to be involved again. So we are seeing if we can work out some sort of a deal for us to write it and for Marcus to direct, but right now it 's just in the deal stage. It is a possibility. I could n't imagine it being made without Marcus directing it. '' Shooting on the second film, The Collection, began in October 2010, and the film was released on November 30, 2012. Josh Stewart reprised his role as Arkin. See also List of films featuring home invasions References Jump up ^ McNary Dave ( July 17, 2009 ). `` Duo sparked by ' Project Greenlight ' ''. Variety. Jump up ^ `` The Collector Box Office ''. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2009. Jump up ^ Confirmed ! The Collector DVD Coming in April Jump up ^ `` How ' The Collector ' Was Almost a Prequel to Saw ! ''. Blooding Disgusting. Retrieved July 21, 2009. Jump up ^ `` INTERVIEW : Marcus Dunstan & Patrick Melton ''. UpcomingHorrorMovies.com. July 31, 2009. Jump up ^ `` The Collector DVD Release in April ? ! ? ''. DeadCentral.com. December 28, 2009. Jump up ^ Full Specs and Art for DVD and Blu - ray of The Collector Jump up ^ `` The Collector ( 2009 ) ''. Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved September 20, 2014. Jump up ^ `` The Collector : Reviews ( 2009 ) ''. Metacritic. CNET Networks. Retrieved December 29, 2009. Jump up ^ `` BET Review ''. BET. Retrieved July 31, 2009. Jump up ^ `` The Collector Review ''. Blooding Disgusting. Retrieved July 27, 2009. Jump up ^ New Stills From The Collector Jump up ^ `` Box Office Mojo -- The Collector ''. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 2, 2009. Jump up ^ `` The Collection ''. latinoreview.com. March 15, 2010. Jump up ^ `` The Collection ''. bloody - disgusting. April 28, 2010. External links Official website The Collector at AllMovie The Collector at Box Office Mojo The Collector on IMDb The Collector at Metacritic The Collector at Rotten Tomatoes Works of Marcus Dunstan & Patrick Melton Films ( Dunstan only ) The Collector ( 2009 ) The Collection ( 2012 ) Screenplays Feast ( 2005 ) Saw IV ( 2007 ) Feast 2 : Sloppy Seconds ( 2008 ) Saw V ( 2008 ) Feast III : The Happy Finish ( 2009 ) Saw VI ( 2009 ) Saw 3D ( 2010 ) Piranha 3DD ( 2012 ) Related media Saw ( franchise ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Collector_(2009_film)&oldid=855366080 '' Categories : 2009 films English - language films 2009 horror films 2000s horror thriller films 2000s independent films 2000s serial killer films 2000s slasher films American films American horror thriller films American independent films American serial killer films American slasher films Films set in 2011 Films set in Illinois Films shot in Alabama Films shot in Louisiana Home invasions in film Hidden categories : Articles to be expanded from September 2015 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from September 2015 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español فارسی Français 한국어 Italiano Nederlands Polski Português Русский Svenska Українська 4 more Edit links This page was last edited on 17 August 2018, at 19 : 26 ( UTC ). 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Question: who is the killer in the movie the collector
Answer: an exterminator also working at the Chase house