The Collector

Wonderful performances and very tense throughout. It's never quite clear where things are going but the film does a good job of leading you along and making everything believable which adds to the creepiness of the entire situation.

Very well done! Great performances by Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar, haunting music and great camera shots. I see where Misery, The Vanishing and even Silence of the Lambs owe some things to this movie.

Perverse film with a fine performance from Terence Stamp, who fills the screen with poetry and danger. (Eggar is little more than beautiful, but then little more is required of her; if it had been, perhaps this would be a better movie.) The themes of sexuality and dominance are obvious, but they are interwoven with others--romance, class distinctions, and culture as a marker for social class. All in all, a suspenseful, thought-provoking film--in spite of the predictable, cynical ending.

I was lined up to absolutely adore this film up until the very end. Stamp and Eggar are both glorious. However, I found myself deeply sympathizing with Franklin during the entire film, all the while, not sure if I was supposed to. However, I liked that moral ambiguity, until the ending of the film pretty much shut me down. It basically said to me in a few lines that Franklin was crazy, he never truly loved her, and he's nothing more than a serial kidnapper and murderer. Thanks, movie.

Benim için iyi bir romandan daha fazlasını ifade eden metin, yapısı gereği, sinemaya uyarlanabilmesi için düzleştirilmiş ve konsantre hale getirilmiş. Fakat, bu minimum zayiatla kotarılmış denebilir. Terence Stamp şahane seçim. Ayrıca "kalp" Technicolor.

Don't waste your time on this if you've already read Fowles' novel, it barely adds anything to the original story, and while I loved reading it, watching this turned out tiresome tacky and boring, as it loses most of its dynamics, sub-plots and character depth, for example the regrets Miranda gets about her life and her unanswered love for a man called G.P.

Effective low-key suspense thriller, with the always wonderful Stamp exceptional, providing the template for the modern torture porn villian/anti-hero. Eggar matches him as Stamp's captive, and the film is remarkably suspensful and exciting at times (if the pacing is ocassionally a little slack and slow). Feels like a 70s film in its sometimes shocking and disconcerting violent and sexual material.

Suspenseful from beginning to end and Terrence Stamp was superb bringing to the screen a deranged, sick-minded man yet doing it in a way that mixes a disturbing air with sheer charm. Even as you acknowledge that he is a deeply unwell person you also find yourself sympathising with him bringing a delightful moral conflict for the viewer.

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Starts out pretty tiresomely, but does finally manage to get going. A lot of heavy-handed directorial touches. The Egg isn't much of an actress in this one (in an admittedly tough role); Stamp is good though. Definitely looks like a filmed play (even though it was oddly enough from a novel). Wasn't sure what the intent was: psychological horror, satire, spoof (the pixieish music on occasion didn't help this either). No wonder the guy was a mess though--his van looked like a big toaster.

Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar are very strong

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88.000

First-rate acting by Stamp and Eggar makes this disturbing film worth watching.

Well-directed but cold and uninvolving. Eggar is excellent and always sympathetic as the doomed heroine and there is a fair amount of legitimate suspense in the first half, but Stamp is woefully miscast as the crazed "hero" and the film's overall lack of feeling is fairly distasteful.

I don't know if I've ever seen a movie that relied so strongly on the performances of its actors and both Stamp and Eggar deliver. I guess maybe Just Married. I mean if Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy don't sell that romance, the whole movie would be a failure, right? Right?

The terrific actors carry this patient little gem of a thriller.

Very good. Terence Stamp is outstanding.

NIce Movie

Wyler had been directing every kind of film since the 1920s, but this late work is pioneering, in a way. It's a chamber thriller of a sort that came on leaps and bounds since the 70s, eventually thriving on gritty ugliness that wasn't yet acceptable in 1965. The Collector may seem to show old-fashioned restraint, then, and a hint of naivety when compared to successors, which is deceptive -- it does get tense and ultimately it may surprise you with its grimness.

A troubled, repressed young man (Terence Stamp) who collects butterflies decides to "collect" a girl (Samantha Eggar) he has long been obsessed with. 40 years into his directing career, William Wyler crafted a thriller that remains painfully direct and effective nearly 50 years on; his direction was deservedly Oscar-nominated. Stamp's portrait of pathetic sociopathy is perfectly matched by Eggar's poignant desperation (also nominated). Fine score by Maurice Jarre; superior art direction.

fifty shades of grey, 60's version.