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11. Cube

Scarlet - 5
Johnbobb - 6
Karo - 9
Charon - 12
Inviso - 14
JONA - 16
KBM - 18
Snake - 21
Genny - 28

Scarlet - There arent a lot of high concept pieces on this list, and a good Hell in a Cell match was just what the doctor ordered with Cube, one of the more puzzling films Snake added to this project. Much like the movie Primer, Cube is reliant on a strong story that is designed to be digested through the understanding of rules and laws within a petri dish presented as a film. This understanding is the ultimate capstone that makes the film fall in place with itself, and thats also the general presentation of Primer as well. I highly recommend Cube despite its low budget because a movie that presents the very setting as a mystery is something special. Rats in a maze.
Rating: 73/100

Johnbobb - Cube has a solid spot as one of my favorite cult horror movies. There are plenty of horror movies based around "a bunch of people trapped in a place" but something about Cube just stands out so strong. The brightly colored, industrial environment. The way all the characters seem to have a reason for being there, like they're all just pieces of the greater puzzle, because that's ultimately what the Cube is, an inconceivably massive escape room created by a force we never get to see or understand.

Karo - A group of people wakes up inside a gigantic cube with no recollection of how they got there and have to find a way out. In a series of tense scenes the captives make their way through the booby-trapped cube through improvisation and use of their special talents until the can get some answers. But these answers are where things start to unravel. Government bureaucracy built the cube just because? They kidnap people and throw them into the cube to die just because? This is idiotic. It is hard to tell if they were trying to make a weird political point about wasteful government spending or if they just literally couldnt come with any better excuse for the cube's existence. The strength of the movie is the cast of characters and how they interact with each other and evolve with the situation thrust upon them, much like in Lost. Unfortunately, also much like Lost, the writers seem more interested in giving everyone the runaround instead of actually making sense, until ultimately the world around them begins to collapse under its own stupidity.

Charon - A movie about escape rooms before they were a thing, this movie uniquely tackles shooting a film in several, small enclosed spaces. Another unique thing done in this film is taking the general cliches of heroes and villains and turning them on their head. That heroic cop you figure is the main character and contender for survivor? He's actually going to be the villain. The young "last girl" trope student that will surely be the one to make it out? Nope. I will say that sometimes these trope defiers hold the film back for me a bit, as it's hard to care about the one character that does survive as he's not exactly very endearing. The concept is unique however, and I appreciate trying something new in this case even if it dooms to to just being a good film instead of a great one.
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