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Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

Cube 2: Hypercube poster
Directed by
Andrzej Sekuła
Genre
science fiction film, mystery film, splatter film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 1,633 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Eight strangers wake up trapped in a complex of high-tech cube shaped rooms. The rooms distort time and space forcing the group to survive disorienting and deadly spatial anomalies.

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What happens

Cube 2: Hypercube (stylized on-screen as Cube²: Hypercube) is a 2002 Canadian science fiction horror film directed by Andrzej Sekuła, written by Sean Hood, and produced by Ernie Barbarash, Peter Block, and Suzanne Colvin. It is the second installment in the Cube film series and a sequel to Cube (1997). Released in 2002, Hypercube replaces the colored industrial-style rooms of the first film with high-tech, brightly lit chambers. Instead of industrial traps such as flamethrowers and extending spikes, the rooms have "evolved" to control illusions, time, space, and reality. The film's critical reception was mixed, with reviewers panning the sequel's poorly produced CGI, writing, and production, but praising its evolution from the first film, its acting, and its suspense. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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