In addition to coming up with some of the most twisted traps in cinema with their screenplays for Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, and Saw 3D, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton also brought nightmares to life in The Collector and The Collection, and while the news front for a third film has been relatively quiet since the release of the second movie in 2012, it's now been revealed that a third film is moving forward.

On Twitter, Josh Stewart, who plays the lead character of Arkin in The Collector films, revealed the first teaser poster for The Collector 3 (see below), seemingly confirming that the anticipated sequel is moving forward. Stewart captioned the poster (featuring the stylized title THE COLL3ECTOR) with three ominous words: "Lock the door". Patrick Melton also shared the teaser poster on his Twitter account.

Bloody Disgusting confirmed the news of the third film, revealing that Marcus Dunstan will direct The Collector 3 (and based on the poster, Dunstan and Melton will be writing the screenplay as well).

No plot details have been revealed at this time. For those unfamiliar with The Collector films, the first movie (released in 2009) starred Josh Stewart as Arkin, an ex-convict who turns to his old ways of thievery to save his family from a loan shark, only to have his burglary interrupted by a sadistic serial killer known as The Collector, who abducts one person from every group of victims he kills.

Released in 2012, The Collection featured Arkin joining a group of mercenaries on a mission to rescue a young woman from The Collector's lair in the deserted Hotel Argento, a living nightmare of human experimentation and mind-bending (and body-twisting) torture.

When Daily Dead interviewed Dunstan back in 2016 for his movie The Neighbor (which was also co-written by Melton and starred Stewart), he discussed the desire to direct a third Collector film:

There's potentially a third Collector film all the time. Every now and then it gets floated. We know the story that we would like to tell. Everybody's game to come back and do it. At this point it's just getting the right budget to deliver. That's the other thing our experience has taught us, "Yeah. We've had a chance to make a Collector movie for a modest amount," but in our heart of hearts we know that the movie wouldn't have a chance to live up to where it should or ideally be the stimulus that it should. The Neighbor brought us all together and put us in the trenches again, working, working, working, and the result is the best collaboration we've had yet. It's re-sparked and intensified the fire to want to give that one a proper last knock-down, drag-out, burn-it-all finale that could really honor all the effort and really also be a wonderful hug to the serendipity of all these friends coming together to try to give some people in the world a good scare.

The Collector 3 news comes just a few months after it was reported that Dunstan and Melton are writing a screenplay for a new Final Destination movie.

The way The Collection ended certainly left horror fans wanting a third movie in the series, and we'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated as more details are revealed.

Poster via Twitter:

Source: Twitter via Bloody Disgusting
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