This is a long-time favorite of mine of a genre I’ve come to call Omnipotent Horror where there’s just something inanimate so evil beyond human comprehension that they’re subject to the pure whims of that force. Another favorite of mine in this category is Oculus if you’re looking for similar themes.
I’ve seen a lot of horror these last few years that fall under Lovecraftian that don’t fit my category. My category specifically has an inanimate object. I should have been specific. Christine fits my category as well and that’s certainly not Lovecraftian.
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___the plot never gets resolved, they all have different theories about the impossible cube megastructure but nothing ever gets confirmed and then the movie ends with the autistic engineer walking to the exit of the cube alone.
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The mentally handicapped guy from the first movie is actually one of the employees of a previous version of the Cube who’s been lobotomized which is why he knows the trick about square roots and why he doesn’t want them to leave the starting room.
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No one knows how it got built. It’s just a product of the system. No one is in charge of this.
Basically implying that literally no one knows. It is a representation of corporate bureaucracy at its most extreme. The Cube was made because it was simply the result of a truly unchecked system. The evil is the Cube itself. Hence cosmic horror. We’re not privy to the story because we’re not meant to understand it.
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This is a long-time favorite of mine of a genre I’ve come to call Omnipotent Horror where there’s just something inanimate so evil beyond human comprehension that they’re subject to the pure whims of that force. Another favorite of mine in this category is Oculus if you’re looking for similar themes.
I like your term, but if you’re unaware, there's already a term for that genre - "Lovecraftian Horror", or "cosmic horror".
Big fan, me.
I’ve seen a lot of horror these last few years that fall under Lovecraftian that don’t fit my category. My category specifically has an inanimate object. I should have been specific. Christine fits my category as well and that’s certainly not Lovecraftian.
I edited my original comment to include that.
I'd say an inanimate object still falls into Cosmic Horror though.
The Color From Outer Space is literally just about a color.
I agree. I think, overall, the term "cosmic horror" does a better job of describing the genre over "Lovecraftian horror".
It was an okay film but, SPOILER
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___the plot never gets resolved, they all have different theories about the impossible cube megastructure but nothing ever gets confirmed and then the movie ends with the autistic engineer walking to the exit of the cube alone.
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There are two other movies that actually provide answers to many questions left on the first movie. The third one much more than the second.
It does?
I've seen them all way back when, and I just remember confusion.
At the end of the third movie, they reveal…
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler The mentally handicapped guy from the first movie is actually one of the employees of a previous version of the Cube who’s been lobotomized which is why he knows the trick about square roots and why he doesn’t want them to leave the starting room. :::
I mean, that's nice, but doesn't explain jack shit.
The third movie with the ending make even less sense.
I want to know WHY any of that happened.
They sort of talk about that in the first movie.
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Basically implying that literally no one knows. It is a representation of corporate bureaucracy at its most extreme. The Cube was made because it was simply the result of a truly unchecked system. The evil is the Cube itself. Hence cosmic horror. We’re not privy to the story because we’re not meant to understand it. :::
That sounds great actually, thank you for that!
I'm actually ok with that. Not every plot needs closure.
I love this movie