Numbers

All i can say is now we know why there's a teacher shortage. 🤷‍♀️ Really though they call this acting? Best line was "he'd say three times two times nothing" or something like that. The "cops" are actually probably somewhat like the real cops in how they are on the job, though. This movie is the most modern cheesy movie Ive seen. Didn't know stuff this bad passed the level of student film anymore. Seriously, its like none of the actors have ever been in pain before. They severely underact with regards to being injured. I have nothing else to say other than watch this if you want a good ol' 21st century chuckle.

source: Numbers

This movie had it all! Strong female lead acted brilliantly by the super talented Sarah French who is following in the foot steps of the final girls like Jamie Lee Curtis! If you liked the Saw franchise, then this film should be on your indie horror movie list not to miss! Great use of practical special effects that make you squirm in your seat! Movie had a twist at the end that the audience won't see coming. This movie is everything that indie horror is getting right. Leaves you wanting more, and big applause to Sarah French, and all the cast! Go check it out on Tubi or Amazon Prime! Worth it!

Awakening in a demented dungeon, a group of people find themselves chained in a cell and forced to endure a nightmarish game on social media to garner the most likes to earn their freedom, and the more they stay in the cell find a connection to their host that triggered the situation. This was a pretty disappointing genre effort in the style. The main feature that works quite well here with the genre's standouts is the highly impressive and brutal gore featured here. The various traps and games that are played here where each of the characters are forced to undergo a series of self-mutilation and disfigurement to get their likes across serve this incredibly well with a plethora of brutal and incredibly vicious sequences. With characters having their heads explode, breaking out into sores from exposure to gas, chopping their fingers off, smashing hands with hammers, and other types of scenes throughout here, the bloodshed here is quite effective within here as the game takes place deeper into the film. This effectiveness and brutality are enough to raise this up quite enough despite being the only factor to like here. However, there are several issues here that really drag this down. The main issue here is the film's overall style and approach taking yet another stab at a derided and underwhelming genre with the whole setup of the internet game forcing people to mutilate themselves through torture. It's a setup that comes across as rather pedestrian and underwhelming from the very start, made all the more ridiculous with the laughably unimposing controller that takes one of the most ludicrous means of trying to seem threatening yet is quite problematic. That becomes even worse when the whole reasoning for their confinement and the forced nature of their game just provides a laughably underwhelming and disconnected feel that gives everything one of the least reasonable means for torturing others in the genre which is rather distressing. Combined with an ineffective and inept police investigation that speaks to its low-budget roots with how it zips by the normal means of an investigation, these all manage to hold this one down. Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, and Brief Nudity.

Death Count tells the story of 8 people who are captured and forced to play a game to try to survive. There is a B plot following the police trying to stop the game. This film features some of the worst acting I have ever seen in my life. Many actors look like they are reading off of que cards or put no emphasis or emotion into what they are saying. Acting vet Michael Madsen was equally as bad as any of anyone else. Completely phoning in the rule as a flat stereotypical cop. Outside of our lead, the characters are mostly all extremely stupid, vulgar and/or a meat bag. It's hard to root for any of these people. Sarah French as #3 may be the only exception for this movie. The film is also very cheap, the shots look cheap. Most of the special effects are so bad the camera cuts away immediately. It was very apparent they had no money to make this. Some of the violence is creative/gruesome but overall it's so cheap that often times I ended up rolling my eyes. Overall the movie is so cheap, unoriginal with acting you would expect to see a middle school play. It is not worth your time frankly.

What is just as impressive is the fascinating way in which the affair combines numerical, literary, and sonic clues which may aid in the contributors' survival in the second half of the fiction. The quickness and unpredictability with which most of the cast gets slaughtered in the mesmerizing first act is just as noteworthy. Such measures create a welcome balance to the more routine beats of the composition. It also makes the endeavor far more palpable in the nerve-shredding anticipation it brilliantly builds. From a technical perspective, the work is equally stalwart. The cinematography from Su and music from Scott Glasgow is atmospheric and immersive. I especially enjoyed the incorporation of the fitting track from Psycho Synner, the Jeremy Spencer and Shawn McGee penned "The Torture Never Stops" (2021), during the enthralling end credits. Moreover, the editing from Jeremy Wanek, costume design by Joe Lujan, sound, makeup, stunts, and effects are all outstanding. Also identified as Numbers, Death Count is a scrappy, in-your-face midnight movie. It isn't as groundbreaking as the features from which it derives inspiration. Regardless, it will assuredly please those of us who are always frantically searching for a stellar dose of grueling cinematic terror. A Mahal Empire, Mezek Films, and Blaen-Y-Maes Bootleg Films production, Su's exercise is twisted fun. It's also one of the best genre undertakings of the year.

Inspired by Saw and featuring Detective Hoffman himself (Costas Mandylor) Death Count has quite a stacked cast including Michael Madsen, Devanny Pinn and Robert LaSardo. Death Count certainly isn't breaking any barriers in terms of originality with this idea of people kidnapped for their transgressions and made to repent through gory means. It's torture * at its finest and gore for the sake of gore with an added inclusion of tech and the Warden (Costas Mandylor) who is employed to run the game. Death Count weaves the story well as we find out the link between all the characters and nothing feels forced. The film does kind of fly off the rails in the third act and becomes a little bit ridiculous but it's certainly never dull.

Honestly is Michael Madsen even there? He seems totally removed from the whole thing. Acting is pathetic story is crap and will never be like the Saw franchise. Insult to horror movie buffs wont even call it a movie. Save yourself the horror of watching this rubbish.

I got about 40 minutes into this movie before I couldn't take it anymore. It's bad. I don't mind the torture/gore genre but there has to be at least an attempt at a story and there isn't. It's just people being tortured via subpar special effects, horrible dialogue and seemingly no point. The acting is also some of the worst I've seen in quite awhile. Don't bother with this one.

Watched the first 10 minutes and this doesn't even cut it for a B horror movie. Acting was lame, effects were cheap, etc etc. Can't say enough bad things about the whole storyline. Who wrote the script??? A fifth grader could do a better job. Meanwhile, please steer clear and save yourself the agony and use the time to watch more interesting gore like The Babysitter. Nuff said. DK out.