THE COLLECTOR!!!!!

[Romero&Juliet]

Dont you love movies where the protagonist is just SOO fucked up that you cant help but saying, over and over again, "YOu're suchhh a fucking psychooo!!! You. are. such. a Fucking. PSYCHO!"

That's the Collector. A deft adaptation of a John Fowles novel of the same name. I had read the book first and a lot of key scenes were left out, but luckily I had a STELLAR cast and a whole lot of atmosphere to keep me going.

Terrance Stamp plays a dopey, awkward man who's spent his life collecting butterflies. By chance, he comes into money and buys a house and prepares it for a giant, red-headed butterfly... with boobs!


Rent it. This is the best pot-boiler I've seen in a long time.

[Cabrini Green]

Terrific thriller which I believe we all have a little of Terence Stamp’s character in us by obsessing over collections. My favorite scene is the conversation over The Catcher in the Rye. There was an outcry over the casting of Eggar as Miranda but she got an Oscar nomination out of it. I’ve got the book but haven’t read it yet. What generally was left out?

[Romero&Juliet]

Originally posted by Cabrini Green
Terrific thriller which I believe we all have a little of Terence Stamp’s character in us by obsessing over collections. My favorite scene is the conversation over The Catcher in the Rye. There was an outcry over the casting of Eggar as Miranda but she got an Oscar nomination out of it. I’ve got the book but haven’t read it yet. What generally was left out?


the catcher in the Rye scene was side splitting:

"what right did he have to act that way?!?!"

The book is really well paced and worth a read: my biggest complaints were the fact that Miranda's "older man" wasn't explored at ALL in the movie. Also, a great deal of the book was written from her first person perspective. I guess that would be hard to do, but it really dragged out the latter part of the story, when she had fallen ill.

Also, the dinner scene should've been much longer. In the book, Miranda was much more.. . spirited and they engaged in a lot more horse play.

[Dead Zed]

That is... weird... I can testify in court that I had never heard of this film(or novel) before now and yet, a couple of weeks ago, I finished a series of short stories about A LONELY OLD MAN, a COLLECTOR, named TERRANCE Weller! :eek:

Conspiracy,plagiarism(by him! :p) or just coincidence?
You be the judge!

I'd say coincidence,though! :D
I'll be renting this just to check it out.

[SS-Block]

Stamp and Egger were superb.

At first I had an issue with the music. It was too nice and playful. Then I realised that I was mistaken. The film didn't require an obvious horror/thriller-esque soundtrack to manipulate the audience to a certain view. What we got was Freddie's theme, music which personifies his mind, and changes as his mindset alters. Although some complaints do remain such as a few pieces which would be very much at home in an episode of Star Trek (t.o.s).

Wyler's film attempts to understand Freddie's "human nature". The character is never relegated to being an evil human monster, or anything as extreme and over simplified like Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs.

Love and craftsmanship went into making this film. It never feels like a story that must be told in a certain amount of time. We're never subjected to the formulaic nonesense that infest the thriller and horror genre of today.

A beautiful film. 9/10. Maybe 10/10. I really do love this film.

[oh-dae-su]

Are we talking about The Collector from 2009?