Cube is an odd little Canadian movie, not really nasty enough to qualify as horror but with a little more gore than a straight thriller, plus a touch of science fiction. There's not a whole lot of plot to worry about: six (technically seven but one gets killed off REALLY quickly) strangers regain consciousness, trapped in a construct made of cube-shaped rooms. There are hatches on each wall, floor and ceiling and when they go through, whichever way they go, they find themselves in another cube-shaped room. Some of these rooms are booby-trapped, which thins the herd as these people try to move from room to room, attempting to escape; even more troublesome is that they have neither food nor water, so they will need to get out - or definitely die trying. None of the people know each other or how they ended up in the cube but several of them have useful skills: one is a doctor, one a cop, one has escaped from several prisons, one turns out to be a math whiz. They don't particularly like one another but they'll all need to work together to get out of the cube.
Cube is from 1997 but it seems older. The acting is not that good and no questions get answered - you never learn why they are there, or who put them there, or what is going on in the outside world - not even at the very end, but I found myself getting sucked in nonetheless. You could do better than this movie but you could also do much, much worse.
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