The Cell
The Cell is a 2000 science fiction psychological horror film directed by Tarsem Singh in his directorial debut, and starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film follows a team of scientists as they use experimental technology to help a social worker enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to locate where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jake Weber, Dylan Baker, Tara Subkoff, and Pruitt Taylor Vince appear in supporting roles.
Plot
Child psychologist Catherine Deane is hired to conduct an experimental virtual reality treatment for coma patients: a "Neurological Cartography and Synaptic Transfer System" device managed by doctors Henry West and Miriam Kent that allows her to enter a comatose mind and attempt to coax them into consciousness. The technology is funded by the parents of her patient, Edward Baines, a young boy left comatose by a viral infection that causes an unusual form of schizophrenia. Baines's progress has been hampered by a bogeyman-like alter ego whom Deane avoids. Despite Deane's lack of progress, West and Kent reject Deane's suggestion to reverse the feed to bring Baines into her mind, fearing the consequences of his experiencing an unfamiliar world.
More details
| author | Mark Protosevich |
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| director | Tarsem Singh |
| editor | Paul Rubell Robert Duffy |
| events | serial killer telepresence |
| genre | crime horror science fiction social thriller |
| keywords | abuse alter ego baptism bogeyman breathe capture car accident child abuse child psychologist child psychology coup de grâce dream world dreamscape drown fbi injured into a pool kill killer car learn lucid dream mercy killing monitor real world schizophrenia serpent serpentine humanoid the world is not real twist virgin mary virtual reality young boy |
| musicBy | Howard Shore |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling |
| producer | Eric McLeod Julio Caro |
| productionCompany | RadicalMedia |
| publisher | Kinowelt Filmverleih New Line Cinema |
| recordedAt | San Diego |
| theme | psychoanalysis psychological horror psychological thriller science fiction horror science fiction thriller serial killer |