liquidchild101 i don't usually write reviews but i felt that this film got such bad reviews. i thought id counter it with my own.to make it short a sweet.....yes, its not a great film, but if you like weird science horror-ish type of films. give it a chance. it does fall a little short and i expect there wasn't that much money put in to this film. CGI being the cheapest of them all.the way it ends does give away the feeling of a sequel. but what film doesn't do that these days. but i felt that the whole film could have been summed up in about 30 mins and had last 10 mins lead up to the rest of what could have been a great film. (just my thoughts-- post apocalyptic/time travel)so...yeh, if your looking for a great film. your looking in the wrong place. but if your looking for something a little experimental. give it a chance.

rachellovesfilms First off, I love indie films. I love horror films. After watching the trailer for this, I was sooo sure this would be one of my new fave movies. yeah, that didn't happen. At all.It has a very slow build up. Honestly, if I hadn't watched the trailer so many times and seen what creepy things were coming, I would have given up after 15 minutes. But, I soldiered on and was not rewarded. An oft seen directing technique is to keep some questions unanswered to keep the audience in suspense. And we get this from the start (only referring to things in terms of "the disease" and "the cure"). But, the whole point is to eventually at least ALLUDE to an answer. I seriously have no idea what happened. In the beginning, as part of "the cure" you can clearly see some sort of insect-like organism being implanted. Granted, you can only see a leg, but I know an exoskeleton when I see it. Then, as we see more of the cure, it is sometimes a 5+ foot long worm-time organism. Sometimes it's a weird membranous structure that takes over the host's head. I get that we aren't supposed to know what "the cure" really is other than it is a parasite, but there were so many things that just were outside the realm of belief for me. 1.) that there is a parasite that has that many damn forms 2.) that someone would sign up for an experimental procedure without at least getting an idea of what the procedure actually is and what the side effects are 3.) that NO ONE tried to use the video chat to call for help. at the end, that one guy called his wife and didn't mention the fact that they were in a freaking level 55 danger situationand, because i'm a nerd, I couldn't believe that 1.) there would ever be a gov't funded study in which patients were not told up front what the procedure and what the side effects would be. that's the law. 2.) that a doctor would ever just start sticking his gloved hand into someone's body during a surgery. 3.) those are FORCEPS. not a SPREADER. just because you happened to use them to spread open the incision at that point in time doesn't mean that's what it's called. 4.) that a doctor would ever put on sterile latex gloves and then TOUCH HIS FACE before examining a patient.yes, i know the doc was obviously crazy, but he was also a researcher. he would never do anything that would at all contaminate his results.there is difference between asking an audience to suspend their beliefs a little and follow you on a weird journey for the sake of cinema, and just not doing all of your research when you're writing a medical sci-fi script and filling said script with tons of plot holes.the ONLY redeeming quality this film has is the special fx makeup. and even then, i would recommend just looking up pictures instead of watching the film. very disappointed.

jerry veneman A man and a woman check into a facility that offers them a cure for a mysterious plague-like disease that's ravaging the planet. But not everything is as it seems and soon they have to fight for their lives.Obviously, this movie has borrowed a lot from David Cronenberg's early films, like Rabid. But where Cronenberg's movies are worth watching because of the multiple layers of the plot, Cell Count is as flat as a pancake. It tries very hard to be something it's not.While a movie like Cube uses its low budget to its advantage, the direction and script of Cell Count are hopelessly incapable of creating any suspense at all. The unknown cast isn't half that bad, but the script gives them very little depth. Some of the dialog is seriously laughable, like the speech the doctor gives to the husband in the beginning of the movie asking him (with the usual thick German accent of every mad scientist) if he wants to see his wife die in pain and vomit or if he wants to save her. Most of the movie's events don't make any sense at all (SPOILER) like when the doctor releases a psychopath on the ward, or leaves a patient who's having an attack lying on the floor to suffer, just to study the psychological effects. Or the fact that a highly secretive facility owned by a big corporation has only one nurse and one guard. In fact, the entire movie you're waiting for the pieces of the puzzle to fit together. Except, they never do. The serious lack of humor isn't helping either.After 45 minutes, the movie seems to pick up the pace, but the director obviously thought it was a good idea to film every climactic scene in slow-motion and without sound, except for the (decent) score. After using this trick for the third time, it just gets annoying. (SPOILER): At the end of the movie, we're treated to Daniel Baldwin, who comes to save the day. And then it just ends in the middle of the story, making room for a sequel that no-one in their right mind would want to see.I gave Cell Count a chance based on the very cool movie poster that seems to be inspired by exploitation movies from the late 70's, early 80's. I should've remembered that in the early days of VHS, the covers usually promised more than they could deliver. As is the case with Cell Count. My advise: avoid this one, like the plague.

Kristoffer Muhonen The movie sounds promising, it looks promising and it disappoints about as much as a movie possibly could. The first 20 minutes had me on the edge of my seat, not because it was exciting, but because I really thought it would be a good movie.Then it got progressively worse until the very end. The only thing I can praise is the half decent acting and the extremely promising premise. Everything else is awful, what really got to me and what inspired me to write this, my first review on IMDb, was the plot. It's as if someone, after the first few minutes, came in with a hammer and started bashing the writer slowly but surely until at the end of the script he'd simply lost the capacity to write a coherent story. I don't want to go in to too much detail beyond that because the movie simply does not deserve it.Avoid!