“Death Count” (*1/2 out of four) was a grisly, unpleasant horror potboiler about various people (Robert Lasardo, Sarah French, Devanny Pinn, and others) who awaken in a cell with no memory of how they arrived and have to solve various riddles and games or else they’ll die at the hands of a vicious executioner (Costas Mandylor) while an over-the-hill cop (Michael Madsen) scrambles to save them before it is too late. Slavish imitation of “Saw” right down to the casting of “Saw” actor Mandylor as the Jigsaw wannabe. Reasonably watchable at first but goes way overboard with ugly violence and killings. It’s cheap timewasters like this that led to Madsen and Lasardo’s careers being down for the “count.”