Cube
This little gem from the nineties (more like a cool-looking rock) has a premise that doesn’t suggest a minimalist horror, but it’s repetitive imagery (used to a deliciously maddening effect) is fodder for pure claustrophobic suspense and a biting showcase for economy in fimmaking. More importantly, the bulk of the film comes not from images alone but the characters who, while chosen to solve the cube’s puzzle, haven’t even begun solving the puzzle that their messed up lives have become. It’s like Saw, with characters that are just as annoying but a more confined, centralized story that’s ten-times smarter.
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