The Collector

Bank clerk Freddie graduates from collecting butterflies to collecting girls. Samantha Eggar is the girl who matches wits with him in this quietly chilling film based on the novel by John Fowles., John Fowles’s novel The Collector was written in the form of a dual diary, one kept by a kidnapper, the other by his victim. The film is told almost exclusively from the point of view of the former, a nerdish British bank clerk named Freddy Clegg (Terence Stamp). A neurotic recluse whose only pleasure is butterfly collecting, Clegg wins $200,000 in the British Football Pool. He purchases a huge country estate, fixes up its cellar with all the comforts of home, then kidnaps Miranda (Samantha Eggar), an art student whom he has worshipped from afar. The demented Clegg doesn’t want ransom, nor does he want to rape the girl: he simply wants to “collect” her. She isn’t keen on this, and tries several times to escape. After several weeks, Clegg and Miranda grow increasingly fond of one another, and Clegg promises to let her go. When time comes for the actual release, however, Clegg decides that Miranda hasn’t completely come around to his way of thinking and changes his mind, leading to a further series of unfortunate events., Oscar nominated drama starring Terence Stamp as a lonesome butterfly collector, who decides to expand his collection by kidnaps a beautiful young woman., Moody, lonely clerk kidnaps a girl he has admired from afar and keeps her locked up in his cellar hoping she will fall in love with him., A deranged young man kidnaps the object of his obsession and imprisons her in his furnished basement. Hoping to avoid abuse and gain his trust, she pretends to stay willingly, but a tense, even deadly psychological game ripples beneath the surface., Chilling drama in which a disturbed football pools winner kidnaps an art student in the hope she will eventually respond to his obsessive feelings for her. As a lonely London bank clerk, catching butterflies is his only respite from a monotonous life – a hobby he extends to include the girl when his winnings come through and he moves to a country house where he can hold her captive. From John Fowles’s best-selling novel., Disturbing Story of man who collects more than just butterflies which is where Eggar fits in. Chilling, if not altogether believable. Based on the novel by John Fowles.