The Cell 2 is a 2009 direct-to-video

Direct-to-video

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 spin-off

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 from the 2000 film The Cell

The Cell

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Plot

A serial killer

Serial killer

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 calling himself "The Cusp" murders his victims and then revives them, until they beg to die. His first victim, psychic

Psychic

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 investigator Maya Casteneda (Tessie Santiago

Tessie Santiago

Tessie Santiago is an American actress of Cuban and Spanish descent.-Family and education:Tessie Santiago has two younger siblings, a brother and a half-sister...

), survives and is bent on revenge. After she is tapped by the FBI, Maya realizes the only way to locate The Cusp is by entering his mind. But if she dies there, she will also die in real life.