They’ll make your blood pressure skyrocket, heart race, and have you gripping your seat with unbearable tension: Psychological thrillers are adrenaline injections in cinematic garb. At their best, these movies take us by the hand and accompany us into the deepest abysses of the human soul.
Shady characters play with the minds of both the protagonists and the viewers. Often the focus is on a question we ask ourselves repeatedly, a question that has burned itself deep into our brains and suddenly makes us see the world through different eyes: Which is real? What is not? Am I real?
With their personalities fundamentally different, six people awaken in a labyrinth of thousands of cube-shaped rooms strung together, where there seems to be no escape. They don’t know why they are here or how they got here. They try to find a way out of this bizarre prison together. However, it is not only dangerous traps, mutual distrust that make escape almost impossible.
Fear, paranoia, mistrust, despair: The indie mix of chamber drama, horror, sci-fi and psychological thriller plays all the black keys on the emotional keyboard. “Cube” is a psychological discourse about people in extreme situations, implemented visually as original as it is radical. The biggest horror is still the human mind itself. It makes you think but also electrifies your nerves.
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