Cube Zero

Starring: Stephanie Moore, Zachary Bennett Original UK Premiere: 2004 Dvd Release: 14th February, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Cube Zero is a 2004 Canadian sci-fi movie directed by Ernie Barbarash. a person wakes up in a cubical room with a door in the center of the ceiling, the floor & each wall. Beyond each portal is an identical room, one of many in a much larger cube. The person has no memory of how they arrived. Some rooms are rigged with lethal traps, some arent. Other people are quickly located in the structure & the group attempts to puzzle out an escape while arguing who did this to them & why. The prisoners eventually realize that the rooms are moving around inside of the structure & that the numbers that mark each door are coordinates that can help them find their out. Despite the films obvious limitations due to its simple concept, many viewers enjoyed the films stifling atmosphere, conspiratorial tone & stark imagery. Hypercube is a radical departure from the original.

Following the grisly 1997 Cube & its 2002 sequel, Cube 2: Hypercube, Cube Zero stretches the original’s The Twilight Zone-like, strangers-in-a-box theme a little thin. Fortunately, theres a difference this time. The hero is not just another disoriented captive of the Cubes interconnected, often lethal, rooms, but rather a geek named Eric who sits in a control station wrestling with his conscience about inflicting misery on innocent people. Taking orders over the phone from some almighty, unknown power in a distant office, Eric reaches a breaking point & enters the maze himself, intent on helping a woman who doubts his motives. The existential bent of the prior films becomes even more Kafkaesque this time with the arrival of a white-collar team of tormentors, bureaucratic tyrants who cant or wont explain the point of the Cube. Imaginative writer-director Ernie Barbarash rescues what might have been a tedious formula flick.

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