Saw VI

Breaking and Entering a Torture Chamber

MOVIE REVIEW
The Collector (2009)

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Liddell Entertainment

Any film that can turn a man’s death – at the claws of multiple bear traps, skull punctured and crushed while knee-caps are split in halves – into an endearing moment is worthy of applause. By that point in “The Collector,” a woman’s eyes and mouth have already been sewn shut, and her husband’s entrails previously emptied out onto a basement floor. The bear trap crushing the guy’s head like a grape, though, proves that “The Collector” has no intention to take the foot off the pedal. Besides, there’s still a hungry German shepherd lurking around, ready to chomp on the first human neck it gets within licking distance.

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