10 Horror Movies To Check Out If You Liked Cube | ScreenRant – Screen Rant

Cube was released in 1998 and got pretty decent ratings establishing itself as somewhat of a cult classic. Here are horror movies like it.

Canadian sci-fi/horror movie, Cube, was a pretty successful hit amongst fans of the horror genre and is quintessential to the "escape room" subgenre that horror explored a ton during the 2000s. Cube was released in 1998 and got pretty decent ratings across the board, and established itself as somewhat of a cult classic.

RELATED: 10 Forgotten 90s Horror Movies That Were Excellent

Due to the first movie's success, Cube later got a following sequel and prequel that didn't do as well. Other than the seemingly inescapable torture rooms, it seems like fans of Cube also enjoy the sheer surrealness and the lack of hope for survival within the atmosphere of the film.

The original Saw from 2004 is probably one of the most similar movies there is to Cube. Of course, this franchise slowly gets more and more about ravenous bloodshed as the films go on, and less about the characters actually escaping, but the first film gives audiences that hopeless feeling the characters in Cube experience. As Adam and Lawrence try to figure out a way to escape from the shackles that bind them to the bathroom they are locked in, they have to uncover clues about their past and think of each available idea. As the movie progresses, both men feel like their attempts to escape are futile and that there truly is no way out.

Escape Room was a 2019 horror film with Deborah Ann Woll from Netflix's Daredevil. This film follows a group of six random strangers, much like the five strangers in Cube, who each travel to a huge yet mysterious building at the offer of $10,000 to solve a set of puzzles. Everything sounds innocent at first, and each stranger has their own reason for being there, but once they find out that the luxurious office room they are waiting in is the first room of their do-or-die escape room, things begin to take a turn. Where Saw was more of a torture room the characters must escape from, this movie feels more like the same feel as that of Cube.

This Netflix original Spanish thriller,The Platform, totally manages to capture thesame hopelessness and surreal setting ofCube. This film is set in a futuristic prison, following the story of one man and his time within the confines of the walls. The prison is divided into different floors, each holding two prisoners with a giant hole in the middle. There is a platform that goes down from the top floor, all the way to the bottom each and every day with an abundance of food.

RELATED: 15 Sci-Fi Films To Watch After Netflix's The Platform

However, the food is never replenished throughout the different floors and it is revealed that there are over 200 floors. The food on the table is not enough for each, and after thirty days, the prisoners switch floors. Sometimes going higher and sometimes going lower. This movie is pretty intense and ends up making the viewers feel utterly hopeless for the characters as they were only meant to be in the prison for three months.

Read the rest here:
10 Horror Movies To Check Out If You Liked Cube | ScreenRant - Screen Rant