Cube (film series)
6 /10 1 Votes6
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Director Vincenzo NataliAndrzej SekulaErnie Barbarash Release date 199720022004 |
Cube horror movie review guy vid 30 hmrg oldies
Cube is a Canadian psychological thriller horror film series. The three films were directed by Vincenzo Natali, Andrzej SekuĊa, and Ernie Barbarash respectively.
Contents
- Cube horror movie review guy vid 30 hmrg oldies
- Current films
- Possible sequels or remakes
- Mythology
- References
All three films are centered, with slight variations, on the same science-fictional setting: a gigantic, mechanized cubical structure of unknown purpose and origin, made up of numerous smaller cubical rooms, in which most or all of the principal characters inexplicably awaken in the opening scenes. Each of these rooms has six heavy vault doors, one on each face of the cube, which lead into adjacent, largely identical rooms, differing occasionally by colour of lighting. Some of these rooms are "safe", while others are equipped with deadly booby traps such as flamethrowers and razorwire. In some cases it is possible to detect a trap by throwing an object into the room first, although this method is not always reliable due to the trigger mechanism of certain traps.
In each case, a group of strangers awakens in this mysterious structure, without any knowledge of how or why they are there. In order to escape from the prison, they must band together and use their combined skills and talents to avoid the traps and navigate out of the maze, while also trying to solve the mystery of what the cube is and why they are in it. However, the pressure of being in the Cube generally turns one of the prisoners into a homicidal maniac who preys on the others.
Cube Zero was slightly different from the first two films in that it also dealt with the people on the outside of the Cube whose job it was to control the cube and oversee those within.
A fourth film was rumored in March 2011, and a remake of the first film was announced in April 2015.
Current films
Possible sequels or remakes
In March 2011, it was rumored that Lionsgate Films was considering an additional film in the series, tentatively titled Cube 3D.
In April 2015, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Lionsgate Films plans to remake the original film under the title Cubed, with Saman Kesh as director.
Mythology
The world in which the Cube series is set is kept secret from the viewer of the films throughout. The first Cube, in particular, portrays nothing of the world in which the film is set, who is responsible for the Cube, or why the prisoners are there. Hints are, however, given throughout the second and third films. The film's writer, Vincenzo Natali, apparently wrote a script detailing the world outside the Cube, but destroyed it after deciding not to create a movie about it. The plot devices used in Hypercube and Cube Zero (IZON and the government) are likely not (or only very loosely) related to Natali's original idea.
The first film is especially most ominous about the outside world; there is no indication of where or when the Cube was built, nor the timeline of it (although it is generally assumed to be present day). Although the main characters are presumably North American due to them speaking English with typical North American accents, there is no evidence of the Cube built in the U.S. However, in the second film, a U.S Colonel displays knowledge of the first Cube's existence and layout. Despite that, since the Cube from the first film is actually a 'second' Cube (due to the prequel third film), the Colonel could be either talking about the very first Cube from the prequel or this one.
The second film reveals that a company named Izon is responsible for the Cube. Several exterior shots prove that it is set in present time. The Cube's disturbing nature and the sheer impossibility of it being a physical construct (since it's technically an endless tesseract) makes the location ambiguous. Furthermore, Izon is a private company, but the presence of the aforementioned Colonel and his knowledge of the Cube suggests that the U.S government is involved.
The third Cube shows its personnel, consisting of management (known as "people upstairs") and technicians who operate the Cube and oversee the people placed inside. All people trapped in the Cube are death row inmates with their memories deleted and who willingly signed in to be placed inside instead of being executed. The Cube appears to be operated by a repressive, totalitarian government (likely to be United States). At one point, when one technician finds no signature on consent form of a woman trapped inside, it shows that the government also imprisons political opponents inside against their will (proven right when the technician finds her picture in a newspaper showing her in a political protest).