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  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them. As unsettling, inexplicable events become more frequent, Evan realizes this summoned shape-shifting creatu...

Directed By: Elle Callahan

Written By: Michael Nader, Elle Callahan

  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Head Count

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
48
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them. As unsettling, inexplicable events become more frequent, Evan realizes this summoned shape-shifting creatu...

Directed By: Elle Callahan

Written By: Michael Nader, Elle Callahan

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Metascore
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20% Negative
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60
Jun 15, 2019
Favoring psychological chills over blood-soaked mayhem, Callahan’s impressively crafted debut nods to recent horror classics while displaying an eminently distinctive vision of its own.
By Justin Lowe FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 12, 2019
This is all a lot more interesting than some guy in a mask running around with a kitchen knife. Though not at all comedic like the “Happy Death Day” films, Head Count similarly plays with narrative perception in clever ways. It’s an admirably disciplined film with committed performances by actors playing characters more complicated than the usual horror casualty list.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 15, 2019
There’s a great story buried somewhere deep within the desert that is Head Count – about a brotherly bond, about jealousies that assume anthropomorphic shapes, about a demon that literally reflects our insecurities. Ellen Callahan hints at those stories but ends up telling the most basic version.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 19, 2019
Most of the first half of director Ellie Callahan’s supernatural thriller Head Count feel like a waste of time, made all the more frustrating once the movie starts to improve.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
38
Sep 26, 2019
Yeah, Head Count loses its head in the third act. Whatever promise it had is long gone by then (there’s little urgency among the stoners, the threat seems more existential than real). And in a crowd of characters we have zero time to develop empathy for (like their director, they’re all beautiful), when the Big Moment comes, the only sane response is “Who cares?”
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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40% Positive
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30% Mixed
3 Ratings
30% Negative
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Production Company Godmother Industries
Release Date Jun 14, 2019
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline There's something strange going on here
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Awards

Los Angeles Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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