[5] It stars Josh Stewart, alongside Michael Reilly Burke, Andrea Roth, Juan Fernandez, Karley Scott Collins, Madeline Zima, and Robert Wisdom.

The film follows handyman Arkin O'Brien (Stewart) who, in order to pay a debt, decides to rob a house, only to find out somebody with far more sinister intentions has already broken in and rigged it with multiple traps.

Married couple Larry and Gena Wharton return home and discover a large trunk upstairs, horrified by its contents.

As he is doing so, Michael, the father of the Chase family, appears, injured, triggers a trap, and is dragged into the basement by a masked man.

Larry explains that the masked man is a "collector" of people; he only collects one person from a household and kills everyone else.

He sees Hannah carried away by the police and tells them that the Collector was an exterminator working at the Chase house.

In a post-credits scene, the Collector watches film slides on the trunk containing Arkin, who threatens to kill him.

[9] The DVD includes two deleted scenes, and also an alternative ending which is Arkin leaving after seeing Hannah in the window – thus cutting off the remaining 25 minutes of the film.

[citation needed] In the United States and Canada, The Collector was released alongside Aliens in the Attic and Funny People, and grossed $1.3 million on its opening day.

The site's critics consensus reads, "Increasingly tedious displays of gore makes this torture porn home-invasion-horror more programmatic than provocative.

"[11] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 29 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

[12] Clay Cane of BET noted that, "You will squirm, but aren't we getting a bit desensitized to these routine torture flicks?

In April 2021, writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton admitted that the third film may not happen due to "creative disinterest" from producers and many of the props being stolen.