The Collector is based on a best selling novel. What kind of weirdos were buying this novel? This movie is a creep-fest from the word go.It stars Terrence Stamp and he is so young in 1965 that I didn't recognize him until the second scene. I guess things have changed in 44 years, because this movie was nominated for 3 Oscars - Best writing, Best Director William Wyler who won one of his 3 Oscars for directing Ben Hur in 1960 and for best leading actress for Samantha Eggar. Eggar did have a difficult role as the collected woman, trapped in a dungeon.
Stamp is a crazed butterfly collector who wins a bunch of money in a football pool and decides to buy a creepy old isolated house and stalk and collect his dream girl and try and make her love him. Mmmmm, it doesn't work. Not a good plan. He does come up with a new plan at the end after his first human butterfly dies from fright after almost killing Freddy and then realizing if he dies, she's stuck in the dungeon forever. Ooops. Another bad plan.
One great thing is that even though there are only 2 characters in the movie, Freddy had a fake name and of course, it's Franklin. Fake Frank! I love it.
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