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The Cube film series is a series of three Canadian science fiction/horror films directed by Vincenzo Natali, Andrzej Sekula and Ernie Barbarash respectively. The three movies are each based on the same premise; There is a gigantic, mechanical, cube-shaped structure (the purpose and origin of which is almost completely unknown) that is made up of lots of smaller cube-shaped rooms. Each of these rooms has 6 doors, one on each wall and one on the ceiling and one on the floor, which lead into adjacent, identical rooms. Some of these rooms are safe, while others are equipped with booby traps such as flamethrowers and razorwire which kill a person who enters the room (in some cases it is possible to detect a trap by throwing a boot into the room first). In each case, a group of strangers wakes up in this mysterious structure, with no knowledge of how they got there or why they are there. In order to escape from the prison, however, they must band together and use their combined skills and talents to avoid the traps and navigate out of the maze, while also trying to solve the mystery of what the cube is and why they are in it. However, the pressure of being in the cube usually drives one of the characters insane, and they start killing the others. Cube Zero was slightly different from the original two movies in that it also dealt with some people on the ouside of the cube whose job it was to control the cube and oversee those within. It also attempted to answer some of the questions of the series.

1 The Cube film series
2 Prisoners details in each movie and traps
3 See also

The Cube film series

Cube (1997) the first movie follows a group of seven frightened strangers who find themselves trapped in a bizarre maze of cube-shaped rooms, with no memory of how they arrived there. Searching for a way out, they soon discover that many rooms contain lethal booby-traps, whilst others are safe. Initially the prisoners band together in attempt to escape, however as their stay becomes longer the prisoners begin to turn on each other as the stress of their imprisonment takes hold. Despite the film's low budget, it achieved moderate commercial success and has developed a cult following due to its surreal, Kafkaesque setting.
Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) is a departure from the original. The dusky, dingy rooms of the first film are replaced with high-tech, brightly-lit rooms, and the conventional technology of the original traps are replaced with ultra-tech threats based on abstract mathematics. A new group of prisoners quickly discover that, unlike the original Cube, the rooms in their prison appear to shift instantaneously. They realize they are inside a functioning tesseract in which gravity, space and time are distorted. This time the prisoners each have a connection to the cube's suggested creator.
Cube Zero (2004) is a prequel to Cube. Unlike the first two movies, which were limited to the prisoners' point of view, the film follows two characters, Eric Wynn and Dodd, who are bureaucrat/technicians observing the prisoners. Wynn finds himself caring about the fate of Cassandra Rains, a woman in the Cube, and decides to risk his job and his life to help her try to escape.

Prisoners details in each movie and traps

Cube

The prisoners in this movie are complete strangers with no apparent connection to each other or the cube itself, except for Worth who turns out to be a designer of the outer shell housing the cube, and possess some kind of skill or talent which if used together will assist in their escape. Each of the Prisoner's characters name is named after a famous Prison.

Name	Occupation	Gender	Prison Connection	Played by	Race
Kazan	Autistic Savant	Male	Kazan prison (Russia)	Andrew Miller	Euro American
David Worth	Architect	Male	Leavenworth Prison (USA)	David Hewlett	Euro American
Quentin	Cop	Male	San Quentin State Prison (USA)	Maurice Dean Wint	Afro American
Leaven	Math Student	Female	Leavenworth Prison (USA)	Nicole de Boer	Euro American
Dr. Helen Holloway	Free Clinic Doctor	Female	Holloway Womens Prison (UK)	Nicky Guadagni	Euro American
Rennes	Escape Expert	Male	Rennes Prison (France)	Wayne Robson	Euro American
Alderson	Unknown	Male	Alderson Federal Prison Camp (USA)	Julian Richings

Note: The character Kazan has similar traits to the character Wynn in Cube Zero. Each interlocking door in this movie has a unique number. Traps that feature in this movie are

Flame-throwers
Acid-throwers
Swinging Dicer
Wire Twist
Retracting Spikes

Cube 2: Hypercube

The prisoners in this movie are all connected to the IZON corporation, likely to silence them.

Name	Occupation	Gender	Race	Played by
Kate Filmore	Psychotherapist/Soldier	Female	Euro American	Kari Matchett
Simon Grady	Private Detective	Male	Euro American	Geraint Wyn Davies
Sasha (Alexandra "Alex" Trusk)	Computer Hacker	Female	Asian American	Grace Lynn Kung
Rebecca "Becky" Young	IZON Technician	Female	Euro American	Greer Kent
Julia	Attorney	Female	Euro American	Lindsey Connell
Max Reisler	Computer Game Designer	Male	Euro American	Matthew Ferguson
Mrs. Paley	Retired Theoretical Mathematician	Female	Euro American	Barbara Gordon
Jerry Whitehall	Engineer	Male	Euro American	Neil Crone
Col. Thomas H. Maguire	Colonel	Male	Euro American	Bruce Gray
Dr. Phil Rosenzweig	Scientist/Author (Nobel Prize Nominee)	Male	Euro American	Andrew Scorer

Traps that feature in this movie are

The Expanding Tesseract
Rooms moving through Rooms
Multiplying Crystals
Variable Time Speeds
Gravity-defying Rooms

Cube Zero

The difference in this movie is that we see from the point of view of the Cube's observers, as well as the prisoners themselves.

Name	Occupation	Gender	Played by
Eric Wynn	Junior Cube Technician	Male	Zachary Bennett
Dodd	Senior Cube Technician	Male	David Huband
Owen	Senior Cube Technician	Male	Tony Munch
Chickliss	Junior Cube Technician	Male	N/A
Cassandra Rains	Political Protester	Female	Stephanie Moore
Robert P. Haskell	Soldier	Male	Martin Roach
Meyerhold	Unknown	Male	Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang
Jellico	Unknown	Female	Terri Hawkes
Bartok	Unknown	Male	Richard McMillan
Ryjkin	Unknown	Male	Jasmin Geljo
Chandler	Unknown	Female	Sandi Ross
Smith	Unknown	Male	Dino Bellisario
McCaw	Unknown	Female	Ashley James