CUBE 2: HYPERACUBE

Canada, 2002, 97 minutes, Colour.
Kari Matchett, Geraint Wyn Davies, Grace Lynn Kung, Matthew Ferguson, Neil Crone, Barbara Gordon, Lindsey Connell.
Directed by Andrzej Sekula.

The Cube series has a special place in regard by horror buffs, solvents fiction buffs, terror fill buffs.

The first film takes place entirely in a giant cube, in moving rooms which have cube designs everywhere. Each cube has cube designs as well as doors which can lead to safety with the right interpretation or to disaster and death. A group of people find themselves in the cube, sometimes cooperating, always with the will to survive, with a dominant policeman, Quentin, taking charge but ultimately becoming a destroyer himself. And the end of the film is quite nihilistic.

The second film is situated in a cube which is called a hypercube. Once again there is a group of strangers, sudden deaths, moving rooms. Once again, the group help each other, clash with each other, some killing some of the others. However, this time there is an explanation, a focus on a large weapons factory, and experiments, and the elimination of those who do go the tests.

The third film, Cube Zero, goes once again inside the cube but it is the story of rescue, with some scenes outside the cube but offering some interpretations of explanations of the whole series..

1. The title? Beyond Cube? The terror film? The new variations?

2. The cube and its workings, the variety of rooms, destructive? The moving rooms? The numbers, interpretation, timecode? The colours, art, shapes, the doors?

3. The director, his work, as a director of photography, the look of the film? The musical score?

4. The prologue, Becky, in the cube, the opening, and her death? Her later reappearance? Simon and his quest to find her, his killing her, motivation?

5. The ultimate explanation, the clues throughout the film, the weapons company, defence, experiments and tests, computer games and ideas, technology, the buying of ideas and legal protection, mathematics and design, codes? The revelation that Sasha was the genius? The authorities, her being a whistleblower, issues of time, space, the fourth dimension and Jerry illustrating it, leading to parallel worlds and the characters encountering each other, live and dead? Kate and her role, the fight for survival, her recording what went on, reporting to the authorities, military, the phone call, her being shot?

6. The colonel, the attack on him, his briefcase, his hanging, the group rescuing him, seeing him hanging later?

7. Kate, strong, her back story, the alleged disappearance, competence, personality, leader, the sympathy for Sasha? The discussions with Jerry? The clashes with Simon? Helping with the escape, leading, the experiments, seeing the double, time and the parallels?

8. Simon, tough, private investigator, revealing later the search for Becky, his experiences, attitudes, confrontational, the scene of his death and his seeing it, his killing Mrs Payley? The antagonism with Jerry? Jerry’s death, his reappearance, the discussions? The number of watches? The number and the timecode?

9. Jerry, ordinary, his knowledge, helping with the building, with ideas, explaining the fourth dimension? His being sliced? The watches, his reappearance? A more sympathetic character?

10. The finding of the dead scientist and Mrs Paley and Max identifying him?

11. Mrs Payley, sudden appearance, death, searching for dog, not wanting an operation? Remembering the past, her knowledge of the dead scientist, work with weapons company, the work, and being killed?

12. Max, younger, sudden appearance, computer games, his knowledge, scepticism? The encounter with Julia, the sexual encounter, their deaths? The entwined corpses?

13. Julia, the party dress, and knowledge, the discussions with Max about his copyright law, the attraction, the kiss, entwined in death?

14. Sasha, blind, helpless, Kate and her sympathies? Sasha’s uncertainties, sounds? The discussion about the genius who designed the cube? The revelation that she was the genius? Whistleblower? Ultimate victim?

15. The blind terror, signs, mathematics, the military, conspiracies, tests and deaths?