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''The Collector'' is a 2009 horror film written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton and directed by Dunstan.〔(Confirmed! The Collector DVD Coming in April )〕 Originally titled ''The Midnight Man'', the script was originally intended to be a ''Saw'' prequel, but the producers were against the idea and quickly dismissed it.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How 'The Collector' Was Almost a Prequel to Saw! )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=INTERVIEW: Marcus Dunstan & Patrick Melton )〕 ==Plot== 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, and he takes a liking to their younger daughter Hannah. While working at the Chase home, Arkin notices several strange insects around the house; a spider in Hannah's room and a large wasp nest in the yard. After work, Arkin meets his wife, whose debt to several loan sharks is due by midnight. In order to protect her and their young daughter, Arkin plans a heist at the Chase home, which houses a valuable ruby. He breaks in, but while attempting to crack the safe, he hears a masked figure who enters in the house and locks the door. Michael, the father of the Chase family, appears, beaten and bloody, and attempts to attack Arkin with a golf club, thinking Arkin is the perpetrator. However, the club is rigged with a trap that 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, where Michael informs him that his wife Victoria is trapped as well, his older daughter Jill is out and Hannah is hiding somewhere. He tells Arkin there's a gun in the safe, and gives him the combination. Arkin goes into the other room, a bathroom, where he finds Victoria, who is gagged and has duct tape stapled over her eyes. Arkin takes the gag off and explains that he is trying to help, he then tells her that in order for him to find Hannah she is going to have to scream so he can get back upstairs undetected. Although hesitant at first, she eventually screams and the man comes downstairs, allowing Arkin to go upstairs to get to the safe. Upon opening the safe, Arkin gets the gun, and also 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 Larry, now bloody and disfigured. Larry explains to Arkin that the masked man is a "collector" of people - he only collects one person and kills everyone else, like he did his wife. Horrified, Arkin tries to escape, and encounters the family cat stuck in a trap. He frees it but it is killed by another trap when it tries to escape out the window. The Collector hears the commotion upstairs and goes to check it out, but Arkin manages to hide. The Collector notices the dead cat and leaves the room before locking Larry back in the trunk. Arkin goes back downstairs and discovers that Michael was brutally killed. He goes to Victoria, who was briefly tortured, and frees her from the downstairs bathtub. They head up the basement stairs to try and escape, but after Victoria notices Michael's hanging corpse, she panics and runs into the Collector, who stabs her multiple times and throws her back downstairs. Arkin hides under the desk and watches as the Collector takes a still-alive Victoria back into the bathroom, only pausing momentarily as he frees a dying spider. Arkin heads upstairs and pulls the panels from one of the windows. Meanwhile, the Collector fills the bathtub with gasoline and sews Victoria's mouth shut. 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 doesn't trust him, and is quickly killed by a trap when she reaches for a pair of scissors. Arkin returns upstairs and tries to free Larry, but is unable to. Instead, he decides to flee the house, but as he is escaping, he sees Hannah in the window. He re-enters the house and prepares a trap with Hannah. However, the Collector uses Larry as a decoy and the trap kills Larry instead. Arkin then sends Hannah down a chute into the basement where she hides. Arkin would fight the Collector and pulls off his mask before being knocked unconscious. The Collector then puts his mask back on and later takes him into the basement. The Collector then proceeds with brutally torturing Arkin by hammering off one of his teeth and cutting a wound on Arkin's stomach and letting insects feed in the wound. A police officer responds to Jill's 911 call, but upon arrival he is quickly killed by the Collector's dog; the distraction gives Arkin time to free himself, but he discovers Victoria dead and armed explosives in the basement. He prepares to leave immediately with Hannah but the Collector sees them escape outside and sends his dog after them. After killing the dog, Arkin would start another fight with the Collector with the fight ending as Arkin kicks the Collector into the basement. The Collector, however makes his way out of the basement using a shotgun and hunts for Arkin and Hannah but is lured into one of his own traps. Arkin then escapes the house with Hannah. They run into several approaching police officers, who take them to safety. A conversation between Arkin and a police officer reveals the Collector was an exterminator also working at the Chase house. The explosives promptly detonate and destroy the house. While being taken to the hospital, Arkin discovers that the ruby is still in his pocket. He begs the paramedic to call his wife but before he can, a large van slams into the ambulance, flipping it over. The driver is then revealed to be the Collector, who kills the paramedic and kidnaps Arkin by dragging him out of the ambulance and placing him in the red trunk from earlier, before driving away. After the credits, the Collector is seen sitting on his box while watching film slides. Arkin can be heard screaming that he will kill the Collector once he gets out. The Collector then kicks the box to keep him quiet. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Collector (2009 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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