Cube is an influential movie in the horror and sci-fi genres, inspiring many movies like the Saw franchise since its release 25 years ago.
25 years ago, on September 9, 1997, Cube premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie centers on a small group of strangers who wake up trapped in a giant cube…connected to other cubes…making up one gigantic cube. Adding to the tension is that some of the cubes are rigged with traps and only a mathematical formula derived from the room numbers can reveal which rooms are and aren’t safe.
That answer, however, doesn’t seem to add up with the rest of the film. The prisoners, for example, seem too-perfectly hand chosen to be mere coincidence. There’s Holloway, the doctor; Kazan, an autistic man with savant syndrome who is great at math; Worth, the designer of the Cube’s shell; Wren, a notorious escape artist; Quentin McNeil, a police officer; and Joan Leaven, a mathematics student.
A likely inspiration for the Saw franchise Produced on a budget of just $365,000 CAD, Cube went on to gross just short of $9 million at the global box office, becoming a runaway indie success that also had a profitable lifespan in the rental and home video markets. There are also many who say the film is a precursor to Saw. A group of supposed strangers wake up in a giant, gritty torture device, and are given a strange and subversive way to escape.
While there’s no concrete proof of a connection between the two franchises, their similarities can’t be ignored. James Wan, Saw’s director, has never come out and said Cube was an inspiration, but it’s highly probable he’s seen the movie because of its importance and popularity within the horror and sci-fi fandoms.
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