This movie was pretty average as far as plot and cinematography goes, but MY GOD this was entertaining. I would say more creative than SAW. Wife couldn't stand the blood, and there was even a scene that got me to shudder a bit. All I will say is bugs. Also the dog part was A1

The writer of "Saw IV" and V directed this one and it is similarly a work of greatness. It doesn't have a the budget or acting power of a Saw sequel but it evens out to be an amazing home invasion thriller/horror. I highly enjoyed it.You get to see the morality of a person tested, in a way like "Saw." Any artist who works on such a powerful franchise as "Saw" is bound to carry over some stuff. Don't go into it expecting that because it's very different but the quality of film-making is on par with that and the horror conventions the collector has assembled in this home invasion film beg a comparison.I recommend this film most for the thriller aspect, though the horror is right there all the way through. I enjoy watching good vs. evil on screen, especially when the writer/director teases the audience with who is the most moral and does it ever change in the movie. With better acting and more of a high tech look, I'd have given this thriller a 10/10. It is still an awesome film that I recommend.

This is a horror film of the home invasion/splatter type. Premise is simple, a guy goes to burgle a house to pay off his wife's debts to a loan shark and has the misfortune of arriving at the same time as a sadistic killer.The central gimmick of the film is that the killer lays an array of elaborate booby traps around the house, it's absurd, so many traps are laid in so little time, including nails protruding from the stairs and boards across the windows, things that no one could have possibly done without making some sound.Anyway the killer wears a mask, doesn't speak and takes people down into the basement of the house, which looks amazingly apt as a serial killer's torture dungeon considering it's not the killer's house. So upstairs you get people falling into booby traps and down in the basement is where the film takes its time to really dwell on the killer's sadism.That's pretty much it as far as story goes, well there's also some guy in a box who mentions that the killer kills those he doesn't want and takes those he does want for his 'collection', but this isn't developed on at all. The killer isn't interesting, just detestable in a very straight forward way. It feels like they played with the idea of having an actual concept for about 5 minutes and then just fell back on plain old sadism and gore.I'm a big fan of horror but this just seemed half-baked, a film with no ideas other than traps and ways to torture people. It's a frustrating, obnoxious film that feels like it's being rubbed in your face.Objectively I'll admit that this deserves more than 1/10, it's at least technically competent, the acting is good enough and so on, but I feel so annoyed by having wasted my time watching something that's so nasty in such an unimaginative, boring way that I'm giving it 1/10.

What you have here is a high-tension psychological thriller with horrific scenes and not a horror film as labelled. This is based in the real world and not that of the supernatural or paranormal. Though there is an air of dread throughout the film, which is very palpable at exactly the right times, thanks to the great direction. So horror fans would love this film also.This is the story of a thief, with a heart and conscience, agreeably portrayed by Josh Stewert (who I hadn't rated as a good actor before this film), and his mission to steal for his wife to help get her out of trouble, as regular work doesn't make enough money. The only trouble for Arkin is that a psychopath has also marked the family, but for a more grisly reason.This is an underrated film and largely missed film though I would highly recommend this if you like edge-of-your-seat tension as the director, Marcus Dunstan, does a splendid job building the tension from the moment Arkin breaks into the house, right to the end of the film. Not once does the tension falter or drop, unless the story dictates it.All of the actors are above average and do a great job of adding power to the film, though there are times I would like have had a little more building of the Chase family just so you cared a little more about what happens to them. Though to keep it to the one and a half hour runtime the writers, Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, do a good job of making the Chase family come out as "Normal" though.The one and only drawback to the whole movie, and the reason for the low score is The Collectors traps. These are ingenious and deadly by conception and utilisation. But just by their design, there wouldn't have been any way to set all the traps without the house-holders knowledge. Should they have been constructed and set after he had caught the family, then there wouldn't have been enough time before Arkin arrived. This is the one continuity error that perturbs me the most.I would recommend this to anyone who likes action and does not mind a more than a little gore, to at least watch once. This is the second time I've viewed this and enjoyed it more the second time around.