This film is pretty well scripted. Despite the fact that essentially there're only two people that appears in the film, plot development is fairly smooth and natural. The plot is somewhat like the "Vanishing" but this movie was made in the '60s when the world didn't know much about brutal serial killers, so the villain soft pedals his hostility quite a bit towards the victim Miranda Gray (Samantha Eggar). Terence Stamp fits the part of the serial killer to a "T" in this movie. He is totally ruthless and self absorbed in the way he treats Gray, yet, his vanity refuses to admit this to himself. He thinks he's on some kind of a noble quest to collect the woman of his infatuation, and believes that he's actually treating them well. This character is really evil - and Terence plays it up to the hilt. A depiction of a sociopath '60s style. This must have been a pretty shocking film back then and even now it hasn't lost it's bite after over 40 years.
Review of The Collector
