I saw Hypercube and it has an honored place on my list of movies I wish I'd never seen. Seeing as how I could never find any real reason for what was done and no good explanation of how, and that the only slim explanation of either was the old government conspiracy to cover up things angle, well... None of it came close to explaining or justifying the utterly inhuman, grotesque things done to the victims. I've had nightmares that were less cold, silent, isolated and relentless than their wanderings and eventually deaths, and I don't think their success outdoing my nightmares is really enough to justify a movie that includes these events, even in a horror movie.
From what I've seen of recent movies, a lot of people have convinced themselves that a good scare flick can be made by having terrible things happen to people and not telling the audience how or why. As has been pointed out recently on this forum, even Hitchcock was guilty of this in the past, with "The Birds". Yes, you can horrify the people, keeping them hanging, hold their attention as they wait to see what dreadful person has done this and why... but if you don't pay up at the end, well, I don't know... some filmmakers seem happy to have left their audience feeling angry and uneasy. And I still say Hypercube was just too sick to be justified, even in the end, if it had been. But there are worse out there, which I have not and will not see... and I guess I just miss the old suspense flicks, like "Wait Until Dark" and "Rear Window". Things happened to people, but you didn't find everyone in the movie got chopped up in one way or another. Just a couple of them.
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