023 - Cube

Director: Vincenzo Natali
Year: 1997

Six people awake to find themselves in a giant puzzle made up of thousands of rooms each exactly like the other; a perfect cube. On every face of a cube room there is a crawl space that leads to another room. Sounds simple enough but the people quickly find out that a bulk of the the rooms are booby-trapped. Each person has a unique skill (cop, math whiz, doctor, etc..) and the group must work together to find a way through the maze of rooms. They don't know where they are or why, don't know where to go, don't have any food or supplies.

There are several Cube films to date and really I only enjoy the first one. The others are ok and have similar stories, but Cube was the first. It is one of the most unique SciFi films that I can watch over and over. Usually mystery type films lose their touch after you know the punch lines but not Cube. Give it a try.

Vincenzo Natali's CUBE (1997)