Mad for the Movies: Held Captive - The Collector

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Teens, Adults

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For the month of October, we will be showing movies about people being held captive.  Jealous and obsessive captors make for compelling horror villains in these thrillers that will have you wondering how/will the captives will get out.

On this night, we are watching William Wyler's 1965 film "The Collector" starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.

Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies.

 

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