#cube 2: hypercube (2002)

[letterboxd-worth-a-damn]

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: Eight strangers find themselves waking up in a strange cube-shaped room with no recollection of how they came to be there. Soon discovering that they're in a strange fourth dimension where our laws of physics don't apply, they have to unravel the secrets of the "hypercube" in order to survive.

Mod Sus: It's been ages since I saw this one, and while I liked the first one just fine, this one I recall being... alright. Not as good as first one but still fine in some parts I liked.

[npd-vriska]

ok so ive been thinking of having a general horror movies tag because i like to have a system but i dont really know how id implement it logistically

1) do i put everything in it? what abt the saw franchise. the saw franchise is horror but i also have a dedicated tag for it and if i put it in a general horror tag then half that tag would be saw. is that fair to other horror movies? shouldnt they get more of a chance?

2) do i still tag movies individually? thats a lot of work. sure i have the #hs tag that i use for all of the homestuck franchise and then separate tags for each of its components (#homestuck, #hse, #hiveswap, &c &c) and even use for fanworks (eg my now very rarely used #ve tag since i fell off) but i only do it like that cuz this is primarily a homestuck blog. if this was a cinema blog that level of granularity would make sense! but movies arent the focus of marsti dot tumblr dot com

3) how do i even count horror. is cube (1997) horror? i like it for its horror elements but it is mainly a thriller. in the same way nope (2022) is 100% an alien encounter science-fiction action movie with very slight horror elements but is "has a scary scene in it" really enough to count? just because it's directed by jordan peele? and like jordan peele used to be primarily known as a comedy actor people can make art in multiple genres you know

4) what abt franchises? cube 2: hypercube (2002) is definitely not horror, its pure sf, but it IS part of the cube franchise so if i were to put cube (1997) in a general horror tag then i would have to make a call on how to treat franchises that started as horror and then changed genres. also i know i literally have a friday the 13th tattoo and that would make way more sense to illustrate this particular problem but i just really like cube ok

so anyway yeah thats where i am with this

[stenka-razin]

in 2023 I watched some movies

I was gonna catch up on all those best picture nominees from the last 5 years, but watched crap like Caligula 2 instead

The 1989 World Tour - Live (2015, dir. Jonas Åkerlund) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022, dir. Rian Johnson) Flight 666 (2008, dir. Scot McFayden and Sam Dunn) Dracula (1931, dir. Todd Browning) Moonraker (1979, dir. Lewis Gilbert) The Pez Outlaw (2022, dir. Bryan Storkel and Amy Bandlien Storkel) Encino Man (1992, dir. Les Mayfield) Star Trek: Insurrection (1998, dir. Jonathan Frakes) Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (2019, dir. Quentin Tarantino) Cleopatra (1963, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) The Alligator People (1959, dir. Roy Del Ruth) The Silence of the Lambs (1991, dir. Thomas Demme) Godzilla vs. Megalon (“ゴジラ対メガロ” 1973, dir. Jun Fukuda) Invasion of Astro-Monster (“怪獣大戦争” 1965, dir. Ishirō Honda) Breaking a Monster (2015, dir. Luke Meyer) Terror at Orgy Castle (1971, dir. Zoltan G. Spencer) Wake in Fright ("Outback" 1971, dir. Ted Kotcheff) m.A.A.d. (2014, dir. Khalil Joseph) Reservoir Dogs (1992, dir. Quentin Tarantino) Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002, dir. Steve Oedekerk) House (1977, dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, dir. Steven Spielberg) Dunkirk (2017, dir. Christopher Nolan) Final Destination (2000, dir. James Wong) Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia (2023, dir. Salima Koroma) Basic Instinct (1992, dir. Paul Verhoeven) Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985, dir. Tim Burton) Caligula 2: The Untold Story (“Caligola: La storia mai raccontata” 1982, dir. Joe D’Amato) La noche del terror ciego (1972, dir. Amando de Ossorio) Rocky IV (1985, dir. Sylvester Stallone) Saw IV (2007, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman) House of Wax (1953, dir. Andre DeToth) Thir13en Ghosts (2001, dir. Steve Beck) Kashchey the Immortal (“Кащей Бессмертный” 1944, dir. Aleksandr Rou) Ghost Ship (2002, dir. Steve Beck) The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971, dir. Piers Haggard) The Face of Fu Manchu (1965, dir. Don Sharp) The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966, dir. Don Sharp) The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967, dir. Jeremy Summers) The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968, dir. Jesús Franco) April Fool's Day (1986, dir. Fred Walton) It's Pat 1994, dir. Adam Bernstein) The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969, dir. Jesús Franco) Adam and Eve Meet the Cannibals ("Adam ed Eve, la prima storia d'amore" 1983, dir. Enzo Doria & Luigi Rosso) The Mountain of the Cannibal God (“La montagna del dio cannibale” 1978, dir. Sergio Martino) When Harry Met Sally… (1989, dir. Rob Reiner) Beetlejuice (1988, dir. Tim Burton) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001, dir. Peter Jackson, Long as Shit Version) The Hobbit (1977, dir. Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Bass) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene) The Wicker Man (1973, dir. Robin Hardy) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, dir. Tobe Hooper) House of 1000 Corpses (2003, dir. Rob Zombie) Chopping Mall (1986, dir. Jim Wynorski) Basket Case (1982, dir. Frank Henenlotter) Cube (1997, dir. Vincenzo Natali) Cube 2: Hypercube (2002, dir. Andrzej Sekula) Practical Magic (1998, dir. Griffin Dunne) Tropic Thunder (2008, dir. Ben Stiller) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015, dir. J.J. Abrams) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, dir. Rian Johnson) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019, dir. J.J. Abrams) Eyes Wide Shut (1999, dir. Stanley Kubrick) Superbad (2007, dir. Greg Mottola) Bruce Almighty (2003, dir. Tom Shadyac) House of Flying Daggers (“十面埋伏” 2004, dir. Zhang Yimou) Saltburn (2023, dir. Emerald Fennell) Grandma’s Boy (2006, dir. Nicholaus Goossen) Five Nights at Freddy's (2023, dir. Emma Tammi) Caligula and Messalina (“Caligula et Messaline” 1981, dir. Bruno Mattei) The Wizard of Oz (1939, dir. Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, and Norman Taurog) A Christmas Prince (2017, dir. Alex Zamm) A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (2018, dir. John Schulz) The Knight Before Christmas (2019, dir. Monika Mitchell) Goldfinger (1964, dir. Guy Hamilton) Total Recall (1990, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

[spellscarred]

top 5 movies poll games

tagged by @lealdog 😘

Are any of these movies particularly good or masterpieces? Probably not. Do I still love them and they continue to live rent-free in my damn head, and will until the day I die? Absolutely. For whatever reason, these are comfort movies for me (but horror always has been my comfort genre, so).

tagging @oopsydaisyjohnson @imagine-eragons @svejarph @crimsonphoenix0 @visdiefje @dear-indies and anyone else who wanna do it

[fanofspooky]

Cube 2: Hypercube

2002 • R • 1h34m

Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.

[billandtedsgayjourney]

it's kind of amazing how bad Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) is compared to the first movie, Cube (1997). The first movie manages to use literally only one set and very rudimentary special effects to make a suspenseful psychological horror film. It's got some twists and turns, solid acting, and a pretty interesting nihilistic take on the world.

The second movie looks like shit. Just absolute garbage. There's no substantial suspense because it's all undercut by very odd directorial choices. The plot is. the plot is so fucking frustating to me, it makes me so mad. It raises some interesting ideas and then just discards them, and also discards most of the interesting stuff from the first movie! What do you have left then? When your directing, photography, special effects, acting, plot, and editing are all subpar? What is a movie but a miserable little pile of sets.

[lorz-ix]

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

Boy, speaking of horror sequels that completely fumble the bag and ruin the mystery of the original. This one isn't interesting, unlike some others that at least can provide a backstory that's fun to learn about. Cube 2 doesn't feel like a sequel to Cube, it feels like ripoff that's trying to crank up the stakes even higher for the sake of it. It very clearly is just sticking to a formula, and is pushing the incomprehensible sci-fi setting of the original to be even more extreme and fantastical, to a point that it's not engaging anymore.

Genuinely no reason to watch this over the original, other than sick curiosity.

[facesofcinema]

Cube²: Hypercube (2002)

[babygruenwald]

Voiced by actor/aviation pioneer/restaurateur Baby Gruenwald, The Gruenwald Coo is a stock sound effect that has been used in tons of motion pictures, countless TV shows, and an unhealthy number of talking dolls, beginning in 1933 when it was recorded for the film Distant Diapers, Overactive Bowels.

The coo is often used when a baby is seen closing a profitable business deal, sabotaging the performance of a rival baby actor, or winning in a high stakes game of Got Your Nose.

The sound effect gained renewed popularity after it was used in Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009).

[techgizhdms]

Cube 2 - Hypercube (2002)

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

Stats from Movies 1201-1300

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Splice (2009) had the most votes with 854 votes. Dark Cloud (2022) had the least votes with 290 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Ghostbusters (1984) was the most watched film with 83.3% of voters out of 756 saying they had seen it. T Blockers (2023) had the least "Yes" votes with 0,3% of voters out of 732.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

Salem's Lot (1979) was the least watched film with 64.4% of voters out of 449 saying they hadn’t seen it. A Snake of June (2002) had the least "No" votes with 6,9% of voters out of 391.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Ghostbusters (1984) was the best known film, 0,5% of voters out of 756 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

A Snake of June (2002) was the least known film, 90.8% of voters out of 391 saying they’d never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

Bingo Hell (2021) The Descent: Part 2 (2009) The Reckoning (2020) The Lair (2022) Dream House (2011) The Other Lamb (2019) Unsane (2018) Children of the Night (1991) Manichithrathazhu (1993) They Live (1988)

Chasing Sleep (2000) The Special (2020) Grabbers (2012) Blood and Roses (1960) Eating Miss. Campbell (2022) Violated Angels (1967) A Snake of June (2002) The Alligator People (1959) eXistenZ (1999) Blood Widow (2014)

Blood Widow (2020) Honeymoon (2014) Uninvited (1987) Scarecrows (2017) Talon Falls (2017) They Reach (2020) Devil's Gate (2017) Killer Sofa (2019) The Ghost Within (2023) Hidden 3D (2011) Grave of the Vampire (1972) Lamb (2021) See No Evil (2006) Planet Terror (2007) Lights Out (2016) Gerald's Game (2017) Webcast (2018) The Love Witch (2016) No One Gets Out Alive (2021) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Wounds (2019) Paintball Massacre (2020) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) Charlie's Farm (2014) Child Eater (2016) Monster Brawl (2011) 247°F (2011) Dark Cloud (2022) The Hole (2001) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)

Hazard Jack (2014) Pumpkinhead (1988) The Resurrected (1991) Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) The Curse (1987) The Dunwich Horror (1970) Earth vs. the Spider (2001) The Fan (1982) Mute Witness (1995) The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

The Suckling (1990) It Conquered the World (1956) Bug (2006) The Signal (2007) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2016) Monsters (2010) YellowBrickRoad (2010) The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) T Blockers (2023) The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow (2008) The Mothman Prophecies (2002) Baba Yaga (1973) Kill List (2011) Splice (2009) The Crazies (2010) Fire in the Sky (1993) Banshee Chapter (2013) Angel Dust (1994) Blood and Black Lace (1964)

It Came from Outer Space (1953) TerrorVision (1986) Lurker in the Lobby (1998) A Night to Dismember (1983) Altered States (1980) Cube²: Hypercube (2002) The Dark Half (1993) Darkness (2002) Ghostbusters (1984) The Keep (1983)

Cobweb (2023) The Empty Man (2020) Bloody Hell (2020) The Green Inferno (2013) Turistas (2006) Salem's Lot (1979) Stir of Echoes (1999) Christine (1983) Found (2012) The Hole (2009)

[canmom]

2ku Twosday 2×2×2×2×2×2 + 2 + 2 +1: Cube

Ah, would that we could have a more numerically auspicious number this Twosday 22/02/2022! The twosiest day for the next two hundred years! By which point, who knows, the Gregorian calendar may no longer be in use.

To celebrate the number two, I had the idea of watching a series of cult Canadian horror films all themed around a very twosy shape, the cube. After all, what is a cube but the result of repeated doubling?

Like I said, very twosy shape.

So yeah, we’re gonna watch the movie Cube (1997)! And its sequel Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) and prequel Cube Zero (2007). For ‘Toku Tuesday’ purity, it would be nice if I could show the Japanese remake of the first movie that came out last year, but it’s not on nyaa, presumably bc it hasn’t seen the BD release yet. Maybe another day.

So what’s Cube about? It’s about people dying in a big cube full of lethal traps! That’s basically it! It’s a kind of guro-y psychological horror thing I guess.

Why is there a big death cube? This question is pointedly not answered, though characters speculate. The cube was built by some kind of mysterious bureaucracy, and one of the prisoners helped design it; Wikipedia terms the film’s ‘Kafkaesque’ tone one of the major reasons for its cult following.

The writer and director of the first film, Vincenzo Natali, developed the idea from the 1961 Twilight Zone episode Five Characters in Search of an Exit, which also imagines five characters of diverse origins thrown together in a confined space. To gain funding, he shot a short film Elevated that takes place entirely in a... lift (¬¬), selling the money men on the idea of a film taking place in confined spaces.

The Cube itself was designed by, who else, a mathematician:

The fictional Cube device in the film was conceived by mathematician David W. Pravica, who also served as the film's math consultant.[19] It consists of an outer cubical shell (the sarcophagus) and the inner cube. Each side of the outer shell is 434 feet (132 m) long. The inner cube consists of 263 = 17,576 cubical rooms (minus an unknown number of rooms to allow for movement, as shown in the film), each having a side length of 15.5 feet (4.7 m). There is a space of 15.5 feet (4.7 m) between the inner cube and the outer shell. Each room is labelled with three identification numbers, for example, 517 478 565. These numbers encode the starting coordinates of the room and the X, Y, and Z coordinates are the sums of the digits of the first, second, and third number, respectively. The numbers also determine the movement of the room - the subsequent positions are obtained by cyclically subtracting the digits from one another, and the resulting numbers are then successively added to the starting numbers.[20]

To shoot this, they built a single cube-shaped room, whose colour could be changed with gel panels. The tiny budget could only stretch to five colours of panel rather than the planned 6.

Natali apparently wrote a script for a followup film taking place outside the Cube, but destroyed it when it became clear that this film wouldn’t get made. Instead, the film saw two sequels by other directors: Hypercube brought in Polish cinematographer Andrzej Sekuła, trying to make a more abstract scenario with a 4D hypercube with odd gravitational effects, although the CGI of the time struggled to portray this convincingly; Zero saw Ernie Barbarash, the producer of Hypercube, step into the director’s chair to tell a story taking place, in part, outside the cube. These films go a little further to try to explain the existence and purpose of the cube, bringing in a concept of a government inducing amnesia in prisoners and sending them into the cube in lieu of outright execution. It is, apparently, less psychological horror and more gore oriented.

They all get... mixed reviews, but I think the premise sounds very interesting - I actually had the whole trilogy on DVD for years and... never watched it, for some reason, so tonight I feel like remedying that. If that sounds like fun, drop by in a couple hours at around 7pm UK time (may be a bit later, I’ll keep you posted!) at twitch.tv/canmom...

[jasonsutekh]

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) and Cube 0: Cube Zero (2004)

The deadly maze of cubes continues to kill its victims. Cube 2 explores the theoretical boundaries of the cube and Cube 0 shows the events before the original Cube.

 Some of the new traps were interesting, mainly in Cube 0 which gets back to the basic concepts or trapped rooms. The effects were more interesting in the prequel because they are focused more on practical and the cube environment is more realistic because it has the steel walls and the grating metal shutters between each room.

 Cube 2 is less interesting because it is based around more hypothetical ideas and the traps don’t really seem escapable. Time in the hypercube can just unravel the occupants without them even being aware of it which is also a shame because their realisation of the traps is an important part of what made the original Cube film dramatically interesting.

 Cube Zero’s main characters were the workers who monitor the people that are put inside the cube which is different and adds some subtext about desk workers being mindless and with a lack of understanding of how their jobs even work. The actors were also more interesting and the characters were slightly different from the previous two films.

 The overall structure of the plots isn’t very complicated as they all pretty much just revolve around people trapped in a deadly maze. The endings are also somewhat disappointing because none of these films really explain much about the overall design of the cube or what purpose it serves. The conclusions also sometimes make the journey seem redundant because there is no real chance of escape due to the severe level of control the cube’s controllers have over them.

 Cube 2; Hypercube: 3/10 -This one’s bad but it has some good in it, just there-

 Cube 0; Cube Zero: 4/10 -It’s below average, but only just!-

 -There is a coffee mug in Cube 0 which says “Think outside the box”.

[streamworthytv]

A COMPLETE listing of what’s leaving Hulu, as of February 29, 2020 (turn sideways for a better view, if you don’t have the Tumblr app):

A Better Life (2011)

A Stork's Journey (2017)

Airheads (1994)

Almost Famous (2000)

Blast from the Past (1999)

Cube (1998)

Cube 2: Hypercube (2003)

Cube Zero (2005)

Dennis the Menace (1993)

Dennis the Menace Strikes Again (1998)

Exposed (2016)

Failure to Launch (2006)

Hamlet (1990)

Harry Brown (2009)

Heartbreakers (2001)

In Secret (2014)

Just Married (2003)

Knowing (2009)

Man on a Ledge (2012)

Nobody's Fool (1994)

Ouija House (2018)

Ouija Séance: The Final Game (2018)

Road House (1989)

Secretary (2002)

Set Up (2011)

Sorority Row (2009)

Transporter 2 (2005)

Uptown Girls (2003)

Wall Street (1987)

This list was not as deep as the list for #Netflix’s February departures by a MILE. However, I tried to research the list, to see what might even questionably be of note, based on cult status (#Airheads), the stars (#Hamlet stars #MelGibson & #GlennClose), & on ratings (#ABetterLife got an 85% fresh rating on #RottenTomatoes, while #NobodysFool, a late-era #PaulNewman movie, scored a 91%.)

The good news is that the additions for February, to be posted later, include some MUCH better offerings!!

Please follow me on FB, IG, Twitter and, soon, YouTube!! I research and wade through the info, and the actual shows, so you don’t have to!!

[pirathotten]

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

★★★★★★★★★☆