For handyman and ex-con, Arkin (Josh Stewart), a quiet home and a family on vacation is an “opportunity”. For inside the house lies a jeweller’s safe, and inside the safe is a rare gem – his only hope for repaying his ex-wife’s debt and keeping what’s left of his family intact.Unfortunately for Arkin, inside the house is also a box containing the latest specimen in a collection catalogued in blood, bone and tears – a human specimen packaged as “bait”.While the trap may have already sprung shut on parents Michael (Michael Reilly Burke) and Victoria (Andrea Roth) – cutting short their vacation before it could even begin – the jaws have yet to close on teenage daughter Jill (Madeline Zima) and eight-year old Hannah (Karley Scott-Collins). As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked “Collector” (Juan Fernandez) in a maze of lethal invention – the Spanish Inquisition as imagined by Rube Goldberg – while trying to rescue the very family he came to rob.From Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, the twisted minds behind Saw IV, V and VI, The Collector emerges as a real-time game of cat-and-mouse, melding primal horror with suspense thriller.