Cube Zero (2004) (V)

Director:

Ernie Barbarash

Writer (WGA):

Ernie Barbarash (written by)

Release Date:

16 December 2004 (Thailand)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Horror | Drama | Thriller | Mystery

Tagline:

Isolation - Panic - Terror

Plot:

A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms. |

Plot Keywords:

Rescue | Room | Key | Spit In The Face | Flashback

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Zachary Bennett	...	Eric Wynn
David Huband	...	Dodd
Stephanie Moore	...	Cassandra Rains
Martin Roach	...	Robert P. Haskell
Terri Hawkes	...	Jellico
Richard McMillan	...	Bartok
Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang	...	Meyerhold (as Mike Nahrgang)
Tony Munch	...	Owen
Michael Riley	...	Jax
Joshua Peace	...	Finn (as Josh Peace)
Diego Klattenhoff	...	Quigley
Alexia Filippeos	...	Anna
Jasmin Geljo	...	Ryjkin
Fernando Cursione	...	Doctor
Araxi Arslanian	...	Female Doctor

Also Known As:

Cube Ø (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence/gore and some language.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | Iceland:16 | Germany:16 (cut) | Norway:18 | Japan:PG-12 | South Korea:18 | Singapore:M18 | UK:15 | USA:R | Germany:18 | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Mad Circus Films

Trivia:

When Rains, Haskell and Meyerhold enter the cube with a dead body, Haskell suggests he starved to death, with Rains replying "God, I'm hungry". This is a reference to Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) (V), where a character complained of hunger and killed a fellow captive and ate him.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Wynn claims to not know where the third exit to the Cube is. Yet when he sees the map, he immediately knows that the third exit is in room AZZ.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Ryjkin: I hate this place.

Movie Connections:

References Cube (1997)

Soundtrack:

Message From Buddha

God-Awful

This is pretty much a low-budget, made for TV, type of movie intended to capitalize off of the success of the original. I'm a fan of b-movies, and this one might have been good had they not attached the name "Cube" to it, because as is, the director and plot of the original were better, and this movie just about ruined my taste for the entire series. The characters are annoying and clichéd, there are problems with continuity, and several outright production screw-ups. The story hardly gets a chance to develop because of superfluous dialogue and suffers from that. They more or less use the same horror gimmicks over and OVER throughout the movie, and because the first one was so good, this simply turns out as a disappointment.

If this was a stand-alone b-movie, I'd probably give it about a four. The "1" rating I give it was pretty much a statement about how it utterly paled in effects and intelligence as compared to the first.