The Collector is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse. Divided in two sections, the novel contains both the perspective of the captor, Frederick, as well as that of Miranda, the captive. The portion of the novel told from Miranda's perspective is presented in epistolary form. Fowles wrote the novel between November 1960 and March 1962. It was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated feature film of the same name in 1965 starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.
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An ex-con plans a heist at his new employer's country home unaware that it was also being targeted by a second criminal who rigged it with a series of deadly traps. Marcus Dunstan directed the film from a script by him and Patrick Melton.
Thành tựu & Danh hiệu của The Collector
The title of the original script was The Midnight Man. It was initially pitched as a prequel to the Saw franchise, but it was dismissed by the producers. A sequel called The Collection was released in 2012.
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Novels set in Sussex.. Novels about sociopathy.. Novels by John Fowles.. British horror novels.. Epistolary novels.. Jonathan Cape books.
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