MORE NEWS ON DEBOER'S CUBE
Cube signature series (Lions Gate DVD, R, 91 min.) Watching the film again, I was less impressed than during my first viewing; but "Cube" remains an intriguing attempt at a different kind of horror film. Strangers wake up isolated in a cube structure, made up of 17,573 rooms. Each room has six openings in the middle of each surface, but some of the adjacent rooms have deadly traps. Rennes (Wayne Robson) throws his boot into a room first to test for the traps - after all, he has escaped from seven prisons - but he ends up with acid in the face anyway. Also trapped are Leaven (Nicole DeBoer), Dr. Holloway (Nicky Guasagni), the autistic Kagan (Andrew Miller), Worth (David Hewlett), policeman Quentin (Maurice Dean Wint) and Alderson (Julian Richings, but he is killed off in the shocking opening). It turns out one of those trapped inside helped design the cube's outer shell.


This new version features a new audio commentary by director/co-writer Vincenzo Natali; a 3:20 interview with DeBoer; and three deleted scenes (about three minutes total). Carried over from the first DVD release are art drawings, production designs and storyboards for the mesh, spike and twist wire traps. The original release had French and Spanish subtitles; this one has only Spanish. Rating: film 3 stars; extras 2 1/2 stars
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