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By Michael Rechtshaffen

Sharing nothing in common with the 1965 Terence Stamp-Samantha Eggar chiller other than the title, "The Collector" grafts a torture porn payoff onto a heist thriller setup with messy, illogical results.

Having penned "Saw IV," "Saw V" and the upcoming "Saw VI" with Patrick Melton, first-time director Marcus Dunstan admittedly knows his way around the viscerally sick and twisted.

But by this stage in the torture porn game, the prevailing sensation is a case of been there, impaled that.

In the absence of a sturdy, plausible

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