Marcus Dunstan (along with his writing partner Patrick Melton) has been making us sick to our stomach and scaring the crap out of us for years with his scripts for Saw IV, V, VI and John Gulager's Feast films. July 31st will see the release of Dunstan's first directorial effort The Collector, a film that sounds like a horror hybrid of Saw, Panic Room and Home Alone. Today we've nabbed an exclusive first look at the first official The Collector one sheet, hit the jump for the full image.
The Collector follows the story of handyman and ex-con Arkin, who aims to repay a debt to his ex-wife by robbing his new employer’s country home. Unfortunately for Arkin, a far worse enemy has already laid claim to the property – and the family. As the seconds tick down to midnight, Arkin becomes a reluctant hero trapped by a masked “Collector” 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.
The project, produced by Fortress Features’ Brett Forbes and Patrick Rizzotti and Imaginarium Entertainment Group’s Julie Richardson, stars Josh Stewart (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Criminal Minds), Daniella Alonso (Friday Night Lights, The Hills Have Eyes 2), Michael Reilly Burke (Lincoln Heights, 24), Andrea Roth (Rescue Me, War), Madeline Zima (Californication, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), Karley Scott-Collins (Pulse 2, The Class), Robert Wisdom (The Wire, The Forgotten) and Juan Fernandez (The Lost City, A Man Apart).
The Collector will be in theaters July 31.