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Today I'll show you a horror-thriller film: "The Collector "!
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a husband and wife coming home to their house one night.
The wife calls her husband to their bedroom.
He gets up there, and there is a large wooden box inside their room.
They have no idea how it got there.
A card with the words "for the collection", is placed on top of the box; the unknown contents
of the box move suddenly.
The wife gets scared, advising her husband not to open the box.
But he still unlatches the lock to discover what is inside.
They gasp in horror, and an unknown someone comes up behind them.
Arkin is a handyman who works for a wealthy family.
The family lives in a secluded and grand mansion.
The father, Michael, is the head of a successful jewelry company.
That afternoon, Arkin is working on installing Victorian-style bars on the windows.
He sees Michael's beautiful wife, Victoria, staring at herself in the mirror, and injecting
her wrinkles with botox.
Michael's youngest daughter, who's a blonde, comes up to Arkin and invites him for a tea
party.
He comes with her to her room, and plays along with her fantasy that she's a mermaid.
He notices that there's a large spider crawling around the teacup, that the blonde daughter
is carrying.
Arkin reaches out to swat it off; but Michael enters the room, a little concerned that the
handyman is alone with his young daughter.
The spider crawls away, and hides behind a large teddy bear.
Arkin gets back to work.
While handling the metal bars, he notices that there's a large wasp nest near the greenhouse.
He makes sure to inform the exterminators working at the front of the house, about the
nest.
Arkin smokes a cigarette before he leaves.
Michael's eldest daughter, a teenager, approaches Arkin and asks to bum a smoke.
The teenager goes back to her room, and gets into a fight with her mother about not wanting
to leave for a family vacation.
Michael comes out and hands Arkin his wages for the week.
He says that he added something a little extra for Arkin's own daughter.
Arkin heads out and meets with his daughter, who is staying with his estranged wife.
He gives her a teddy bear he bought with the extra cash from Michael.
The daughter is happy; but the estranged wife is mad at Arkin.
He had promised her that he'll come up with the money, needed to pay off her debts.
But Arkin doesn't have that amount yet, and the deadline for the payment is tonight.
If they don't pay it, loan sharks will come, and hurt the estranged wife and their daughter.
Desperate, Arkin goes to a strip club to meet with his boss, a powerful criminal.
It turns out, Arkin was a former convict; and while he was in jail, the boss helped
him out.
In return, when he got out, he was tasked with pulling off a heist.
His mission is to case Michael's home, figure out where his safe is, and steal a precious
ruby inside it.
This is the reason why Arkin has been working as a handyman in Michael's house for months
now.
Arkin demands that they pull off the job now, because the family is leaving for their vacation
tonight.
He doesn't mention his wife's debts.
But the boss does not agree to change the schedule abruptly.
He threatens to hurt the estranged wife and their daughter, if Arkin doesn't obey him.
But Arkin knows that if he doesn't get money by midnight, the estranged wife and his daughter
will be in more trouble.
So he decides to do the job on his own.
He goes to the empty mansion, and easily breaks inside.
When he had stared at Victoria earlier, he figured out that the mirror she was looking
at, is hiding the safe.
He approaches the mirror now; and sure enough, there's a safe hidden behind it.
Arkin attaches his safe-breaking device to the door, and tries to figure out the combination.
But he's interrupted by someone coming upstairs.
Arkin abandons the safe, and stealthily creeps downstairs to the kitchen.
But there are multiple locks on the door, so Arkin goes back to the safe, and tries
to crack it again.
He suddenly hears screams through the vents.
Arkin abandons the safe again and walks out the door.
Surprisingly, he's greeted by the sight of an injured Michael on the floor.
Michael looks at Arkin, and thinks that he is the one who attacked him.
He tries to get up and attack Arkin; but he unknowingly triggers a trap that hooks his
leg with a wire, and hangs him suspended from a ceiling.
A few seconds later, the same trap drops him several feet to the ground floor.
It dawns on Arkin that there's someone else in the house; someone more sinister and criminal
than him.
He picks up the phone to call the police.
but another trap is embedded inside it.
A nail springs from the earpiece and pricks his ear.
Arkin winces from the pain, but does not scream.
He tries to open the nearby window; but another trap springs razorblades on his hand.
Still, he does not scream.
He gingerly disentangles his hand from the trap.
Arkin walks around the house, trying to find a way out.
He dodges set-up traps cleverly on the way.
Unfortunately, he walks into a web of thin but sharp wires in the laundry room.
In the study, there are bear traps strewn around the floor.
In the kitchen, he narrowly misses a tripwire that would have sent a blade down his head.
Arkin ends up inside the basement.
He turns on the light, and discovers that Michael is there, strapped to a torture chair,
and with more injuries than before.
Michael tells Arkin that his wife is being held in the other room, and their blonde daughter
managed to hide.
However, the teenager had snuck out of the house, and was gone before the other intruder
arrived.
Michael also tells Arkin that he has a gun inside the safe, and bullets in the bottom
drawer.
He shares the combination with Arkin.
Arkin goes to the other room, and sees Victoria tied in a bathtub.
She has a blindfold on; but if anyone tries to take it off, the pins attached to it will
peel her skin off.
He pleads with Victoria to scream, so the intruder will come down the basement; and
Arkin can go up to the safe and get the gun.
Victoria agrees, and the distraction works.
However, the intruder continues to torture Michael.
Arkin gets the gun and the ruby from the safe.
He opens the drawer next, and finds only an empty box of bullets.
He decides to go out anyway, and still uses the gun as a threatening weapon, hoping that
the intruder will believe that it's loaded.
Arkin finds a box in the master bedroom closet.
It's the same wooden box shown at the beginning of the film.
He opens it, only to find the husband from the opening scene.
The husband tells him that the intruder's name is the collector.
He goes into his targets' houses, and lays booby traps inside.
He then kills everyone, except the one person he wants to "collect".
Apparently, The collector had killed the wife and collected the husband, keeping him trapped
until it was showtime at Michael's mansion.
The collector was actually the exterminator working in the house earlier that day.
He pretended to be taking care of the pests, when all along he was booby-trapping the house.
Arkin goes to one of the bedrooms, and sees an open window.
He doesn't notice the hot wax spread all over the floor.
His boots are stuck on the very hot wax.
Nearby, the family cat is also stuck in the wax and is in pain.
Arkin quickly removes his shoes, and dives under the bed before the collector can see
him.
He goes back to the basement, and discovers that Michael was strung up like an animal
and exsanguinated.
Arkin tries to get Victoria out; but when she sees her husband's dead body, she freaks
out and screams.
She runs into the collector, who stabs her several times.
Arkin hides in the basement, as the collector drags Victoria back to the bathtub.
He slowly sews her mouth shut, and pours gasoline all over her body.
Meanwhile, the teenager returns home with her boyfriend, completely oblivious to the
carnage happening in the house.
She thinks that her family has already left for vacation.
The couple tries to go in by the front door; but Victoria had changed the locks earlier.
They enter through the kitchen door instead, while the collector lies in wait in the dark.
They start to make out on top of the dining room table.
Arkin sneaks downstairs; but he's too late.
The teenager sees the collector in the corner.
Her boyfriend tries to fight him; but he ends up getting his finger sliced, and his whole
body chewed up by the bear traps.
The collector grabs the teenager in a chokehold.
She manages to dial the police before he drags her away.
He ties her to the stairs.
Fortunately, Arkin creates a distraction upstairs, and the collector takes the bait.
He unties the teenager; but she is too scared by what's happening.
She backs away, and grabs a pair of scissors sitting on the shelf.
But the scissors are tied to a trap that slams the teenager, and impales her on several nails
embedded in the wall.
Arkin leaves her behind, and goes upstairs to try and free the husband from the box.
But the chains on his feet are too enmeshed in his muscle; and Arkin has no choice but
to leave him too.
He breaks the window in that room, and makes his way outside.
He jumps from the roof, and is about to leave the cursed mansion.
But he looks back one last time, and sees the reflection of the blonde daughter banging
on the upstairs window, yelling for help.
His conscience gets the better of him; and Arkin decides to go back and rescue the blonde
girl.
They hide in her room together.
Arkin improvises a trap for the collector, and enlists the blonde's help.
The collector bangs on the door, and eventually breaks it down.
Arkin doesn't waste a moment; he immediately breaks the blonde's aquarium, spilling water
on the floor.
As instructed, the blonde drops her small television on the person, who enters the room
and electrocutes him.
However, it was not the collector they had killed; it was the husband.
The collector had used him as a shield, and threw his body inside the room first, in anticipation
of whatever trap they had prepared for him.
Their plan has failed; and as a last resort, Arkin orders the blonde to go down the laundry
chute and hide.
Arkin and the collector fight in the bathroom; and the collector overpowers him.
Arkin loses consciousness and wakes up in the basement.
His hands are chained; and there are hooks attached to the flesh of his back.
Arkin presses a pair of pliers inside his mouth, and takes out one of his teeth.
Arkin screams in pain.
Because of the teenager's 9-1-1 call, a cop is dispatched to their house.
He runs around the perimeter, and encounters the collector out in the yard.
He orders the collector to freeze and raise his hands.
The collector complies.
Suddenly, the collector's terrifying dog attacks the cop and kills him.
While all this is going on, Arkin frees himself, by painfully pulling his body out of the hooks
on the wall.
He sees the blonde girl hiding near the corner.
He goes to the room where Victoria's body is; and he realizes that the collector plans
to blow up the house, using explosives and the gasoline he doused over her body.
The collector gets the cop's shotgun from his car, and walks back to the house with
his dog.
The dog catches the blonde girl's scent and chases her.
It almost bites her foot; but she gets up the chute again in time.
Arkin lights a garbage can on fire, and kills the dog with it.
He takes the blonde with him, and they hide at the end of the hallway.
The collector approaches and shoots them.
It turns out, Arkin had set up a mirror at the end of the hallway.
What the collector had shot was their reflection.
Arkin drops the chandelier that the collector outfitted with sharp knives on the stunned
collector.
Arkin and the blonde escape, just as several police cars race toward the mansion.
Arkin goes out to the middle of the road to flag the police cars down; but one of them
hits him head-on.
Another cop rescues the blonde, who's waiting by the side of the road.
The others load Arkin into the ambulance, and he tells them what happened.
He reveals that it was the exterminator who killed the family.
Of course, he didn't tell them that he went into the house, planning to steal from Michael.
A moment later, the whole house explodes, probably due to the explosives the collector
had rigged inside the basement.
They assume that the collector is dead, and the ambulance speeds to the hospital.
Arkin chuckles as he touches the ruby in his pocket.
He had survived a horrific nightmare, and he had made it just in time before the midnight
deadline for his wife's debt.
But his nightmare isn't over yet.
A car crashes into the ambulance, and it flips over many times.
The driver is dead, and the paramedic with Arkin is woozy.
The door opens; and the collector stands there alive.
He kills the paramedic with a knife.
The movie ends with the collector grabbing Arkin, and stuffing him inside the box.
He had chosen Arkin to be the latest item in his macabre collection.
The collector drives into the night, already planning his next acquisition, as Arkin screams
from inside the wooden box!
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