Arkin has a bit of back story, but at the end of the day, he is a fairly one-dimensional character. Even when she becomes embroiled in the conflict, Hannah is little more than an object for Arkin to protect. She exists primarily to remind Arkin of his own daughter and to keep him in the house for the third act.
As a first time viewer, the element that proved the most disappointing is actually The Collector himself. Add to this the fact that The Collector is non-verbal. The one exception? When he licks his lips while watching Chad and Jill make out in the kitchen. Social progress has come a long way in the last ten years, but even in this would have felt inappropriate and wholly unnecessary in the grand scheme of the narrative.
It is easily one of the more challenging sequences to watch in the film. Final Thoughts: The Collector is as mean and graphic as promised, which — for the most part — is a good thing. As a fan of the Saw movies, the connective tissue to the Jigsaw franchise is immediately evident. Take-Away : Would I have thought the film had franchise potential back in ? Probably not. Joe is a TV addict with a background in Film Studies. He enjoys graphic novels, dark beer and plays multiple sports adequately, never exceptionally.
While he loves all horror, if given a choice, Joe always opts for slashers and creature features. In my defense, I thought it might be helpful, a kind of catharsis. Honestly, I have no idea how she puts up with me, but I am grateful for it every day. I warned her that it has some pretty intense stuff in it, but if she would like to watch it with me, it might ultimately be a positive thing.
Some background. A few years before we met, she found herself in a very bad situation and an abusive relationship, which she was able to escape with some help from a few close friends and a lot of innate bravery. I had read pieces and heard podcasts from women who had been in similar situations who found viewing Midsommar to be a freeing and empowering experience. To my surprise, she made it through the whole movie. It is a danger zone. More than any other genre, horror is confrontational.
More often than not, fantastical monsters, horror icons, and Scandinavian death cults are masks placed over the very real terrors felt by the filmmakers that create them and the audiences that consume them. From its earliest days, horror was seen as a tool for social and political reflection. The Cabinet of Dr. Nosferatu reflects on the fears and aftermath of a plague that had ravaged Europe and the world just a few years before.
Or consider the moral outrage ascribed to films like Peeping Tom , The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , and Friday the 13th , all films that are considered acceptable, perhaps even tame today. Or to take a more extreme example, Ruggero Deodato, the director of Cannibal Holocaust , was brought up on murder charges because of the savage realism of his film.
This is why it is important, nay—the duty of new filmmakers to continue to confront us and make us uncomfortable. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. Increasingly tedious displays of gore makes this torture porn home-invasion-horror more programmatic than provocative.
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Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page. The Collector is the titular main antagonist of the horror film The Collector and its sequel The Collection , and he is one of the most sadistic villains in cinema, even by horror standards, willing to murder and "collect" dozens maybe hundreds of people to satisfy his sickening urges. He always wears a mask to hide his identity. The man who would become the Collector was the son of a museum owner and entomologist.
One day, the father went insane due to digesting chemicals meant for taxidermy and killed his family, stuffed them, and then placed them at the table on Thanksgiving and ate with them as though they were still alive. Only his son survived, but the experience warped his mind. The collection was kept at an abandoned hotel, which was rigged with traps to kill off any would-be escapees and intruders.
In the first film, the Collector targets an old couple named Gena and Larry, killing Gena while stuffing Larry in a red trunk and adding him to his collection. Later, he arrives at the home of the Chase family, posing as an exterminator to gain access to their house. Before he begins his assault, he places his traps systematically, locks all the doors and boards up the windows to prevent any escape.
He begins by dragging Michael to the basement, chops his ear off, disembowels him and hangs him by his feet. When Arkin tries to escape with Victoria, she bumps into the Collector, who chains her to a gasoline-filled bathtub and sews her mouth shut, which kills her.
He later watches Jill and her boyfriend Chad have sex on the kitchen table seeing that Jill has some body parts to add to the collection before they notice him watching. Chad attacked him and was killed when the Collector pushed him into a room filled with several bear traps. He then captured Jill, but not before she was able to make a call she escapes but is shot with large nails when she triggers a trap.
He is stopped from killing or presumably collecting the last member, Hannah, by ex-convict Arkin O'Brien who is there to steal a ruby , who prepares a trap with Hannah to electrocute and kill the Collector.
However, the Collector saw this coming and used Larry as a decoy, so the trap killed Larry instead. Arkin sends Hannah down a laundry chute where she hides, but the Collector attacked Arkin before he could go down the chute.
During the ensuing struggle, Arkin rips off his mask, seeing his unknown face. The Collector knocks out Arkin and drags him to the basement, where he hammers off a tooth and allow roaches to feed off of a wound on Arkin's belly. The Collector is drawn outside by a police officer responding to Jill's call, who confronts the Collector at gunpoint. The Collector distracts him long enough for his attack dog seen near the beginning of the film to kill him.
He then takes the dog with him into the house to hunt down Arkin and Hannah, after Arkin frees himself from his binds. Once the collector re-enters the home, Arkin manages to kill the Collector's dog and lure the fiendish man into one of his own traps, supposedly trapping the Collector inside the house.
Arkin and Hannah then escape the house, which detonates from the explosions; the Collector is seemingly killed in the explosion.
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