Cube [Blu-ray]

Director: Vincenzo Natali Vincenzo Natali

Overview

In this science fiction film, a group of people find themselves trapped in cube-like metal cells, although no one can remember how they got there. Former cop Quentin becomes the group leader, and the prisoners pool their talents to find a way to escape.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/14/2023
UPC:	0785034210419
Original Release:	1997
Rating:	NR
Source:	Terror Vision
Language:	English
Time:	1:48:00
Sales rank:	20,836

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Nicole de Boer	Leaven
Nicky Guadagni	Holloway
Maurice Dean Wint	Quentin
David Hewlett	Worth
Andrew Miller	Kazan
Wayne Robson	Rennes
Julian Richings	Alderson
Mark Korven	Composer

Technical Credits

Vincenzo Natali

André Bijelic

Graeme Manson

Vincenzo Natali	Director,Screenwriter
André Bijelic	Screenwriter
Graeme Manson	Screenwriter
Mehra Meh	Producer
Betty Orr	Producer
Colin Brunton	Executive Producer
Jill Purdy	Sound Effects,Sound Editor
Craig Henighan	Sound Effects,Sound Editor
Stephen Barden	Sound Effects,Sound Editor
Justine Whyte	Executive Producer
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures	Special Effects
Steve McNamee	Sound/Sound Designer
Sue Conley	Sound Editor
John Laing	Sound Editor
Todd Warren	Sound/Sound Designer
John Sievert	Sound Editor
Darcey Kite	Sound/Sound Designer
Peter Kelly	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

A triumph of imagination over budget, Cube is about as sharp and tense as they come -- especially for a psychological thriller shot in a single room, transformed into multiple rooms by a bunch of colored light filters. It's a take-notice debut from Canadian screenwriter/director Vincenzo Natali, and not only because it creeps out its audience far more than a film costing under 500,000 dollars has any business doing. In fact, with its sophisticated special effects, makeup effects, and script, it doesn't even call attention to its own underdog status. Cube is a penetrating sociological study of human hamsters in a giant maze -- how they address an unfathomable predicament, how they scrap to survive, and how they keep from cracking up, or fail in that regard. Since Natali is not afraid to tamper with the audience's expectations for certain characters, the film is truly unpredictable. Yet his script is gradual enough that none of these reversals can be considered anything so pedestrian as a "plot twist." The stakes are established early with a couple scenes of visceral gore, previewing the potential of this meat-grinding Rubik's cube. Mindful of the consequences of a misstep, the characters come to embody not only the human mind's disparate skills needed to solve such a puzzle, but also the wide range of emotions and potential reactions to it. The wild card in the equation, as if there needed to be one, is Andrew Miller's autistic man. Brilliantly, the audience isn't at first sure whether he's mentally handicapped, or reduced to spouting nonsense after years trapped inside this nightmare.