I picked up 'the Cell' from our Opp shop for $3. It is sf (machine-aided psychological interventions through lucid co-dreaming) with a nasty serial killer. The visual compositions are magic, appropriate to vivid, lucid dreaming. Apart from a weak performance from Vince Vaughan (Dodgeball is the only movie he has benefitted), and a slightly too-linear plot, and a resolution that lacked irony/symbolic setup, I really like it. Most of the thinking apparently went into arresting imagery, but they were playing to their strengths and the result is rich.
For me this earns its R rating, so if you usually avoid R, I don't recommend this film. It has a voyeurism that relishes what it claims to revile, like Law&Order SVU and similar - killing women for money, as one of Pilar's guests described it in an On-the-Page podcast.
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