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

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:

Continuity: When Rains first meets Haskell she spits on him. It is obvious that when she spits the spit goes almost directly onto the floor yet Haskell wipes it off his upper cheek, which is several inches above Rains' mouth to begin with.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Ryjkin: I hate this place.

Movie Connections:

References Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) (V)

Soundtrack:

Message From Buddha

Watchers

I was one of the enthusiasts of the original. It seemed a clever solution to one of filmdoms most persistent challenges: how to stage drama.

Noir is our most basic cinematic model. The core of noir is a universe where capricious fate toys with human destiny in cruel and arbitrary ways. "Cube" cleverly merged a modern noir vision with a solution to the staging problem.

Then along came the sequel which had no understanding of what made the original appealing and important. They turned it into a conventional government plot thriller with all the baggage that carries. Along the way, they introduced some pseudomathematical notions that were bizarre.

If there is anyone on the planet that would know how such a government program would work, it would be me. I wrote a comment about this which triggered a couple dozen messages among the editor of a film magazine, myself and the original author of "Hypercube."

As it happens, the original script was more true to what made the first one work, but it was coopted and changed by the same hack behind this.

So once again, here we have some sort of evil experiment by some agency. In the last one, that was actually a major weapons company. The one clever idea is similar to "Saw," where we watch the watchers of watchers watch. This folding is supposed to impute an evil to us that we see in the maniacal Dennis Hopper impersonator.

One of the intermediate watchers draws comics. This is textbook folding. Not clever, not worthy.

Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.