History Film / CubeZero

* UnusualUserInterface: The advanced programmers from upstairs use an alternate keyboard connected to their mechanical gloves to use the Cube's operating systems much more efficiently.

* AdultFear: Rain sees her daughter hauled off by black-clad soldiers. She then wakes up in the Cube with no idea of where her daughter is, and can't even remember her name.

Two technicians, Wynn (Creator/ZacharyBennett) and Dodd (David Huband), are observing the occupants of another Cube. Having to oversee all the deaths inside on a daily basis, they're both resigned to their permanent jobs and afraid of ending up in there themselves. Things change when Wynn becomes interested in one of the captives and discovers that her use as a lab rat wasn't properly authorized. He heads down to the lower levels to help them, upon which the higher-ups in charge of the Cube project send down their own team to extract Wynn.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Wynn and Dodd start off this way, and would have remained so if Wynn hadn't tried to take charge of events.

* AcronymConfusion: The C,I,A aren't the people who built the Cube; it's just a labelling system for the rooms (hence the commas). Later someone sees one labelled S,O,S and can only comment, "No kidding!"

* CallBack: Various ones to the first movie.
** The booby-trapped rooms are tested by throwing their boots inside first. The booby-traps themselves include the flamethrowers and folding razor-wire trap.
** In the first movie the conspiracy theorist said that "They" come for you at night. Here it's said the SecretPolice do the same when making people disappear.
** [[spoiler:Wynn's actions and words after he is lobotomized are the same as Kazan in his introduction, implying that Kazan was lobotomized rather than being handicapped.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Jax and the other villains win. Wynn is lobotomized and thrown back in the cube and Rains is on the run until she'll be recaptured. Everybody else dies.]]

* FoodPills: The two technicians are sent down a silver service tray in the elevator. When they take off the lid, there's only their written orders and a couple of pills.
-->'''Dodd:''' Ah, good. They didn't forget lunch this time. ''(picks up green pill and reads writing on in)'' Goat-cheese salad with ginseng, liver fricassee and mango sorbet. Ew, must be you. ''(hands it to colleague; picks up red pill)'' Steak frites. That's me.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Jax behaves like a jolly enforcer of the government and maintains a pleasant but scornful demeanor while he murders people and hunts down his human lab rats.

* {{Hellevator}}: The wood-panelled elevator can take you up to the implied luxury of the PowersThatBe, or down to the living hell of the Cube. Incidently anyone who makes it to the exit and fails to believe in God is burnt alive in what's presumably an InUniverse RuleOfSymbolism.
* IdiotSavant: Creepily hinted at with [[spoiler:Wynn]] as having become this at the end. He's lobotimized, thrown back in the Cube, and found by some other prisoners, mirroring Kazan's introduction. The last shot of the film settles on his tapping fingers as a computer interface is softly heard in the background...

* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Played with when Wynn suggests that Rain escaped and Jax (for once) doesn't have a snappy comeback, implying this is true. Rain then has an ImagineSpot of Rain having found her daughter and hiding in the woods. Wynn himself however ends up back in the Cube as a lobotomized test subject.]]

* TheTheocracy: The omniscient dictatorship controlling the Cube is strongly implied to be a theocracy. "Crimes against country and God" is a notable transgression and anyone who survives the Cube is asked whether they believe in God -- if they answer "No" they are incinerated. No one has ever anwered "Yes" (possibly implying atheists are sent there as a punishment).

* {{Wingdinglish}}: The Cube computer systems and written orders use both the latin alphabet and a strange alien one to display English. The characters can read both just fine.

* ZombieInfectee: The Cube controllers use a strain of necrotizing faciitis to kill one of the prisoners. The woman in question infects someone else by scratching a guy's arm before dying herself. He quickly becomes a liability to the other two remaining group members and is forced to test every room from that point on, but the former soldier throws him into a trapped room before he can infect anyone else.

** The first victim triggers a booby trap and is sprayed by liquid. He screams anticipating the AcidBath of the first movie, only to find it's water instead. Then it turns out to be a trap after all when his flesh melts off.

Two technicians, Wynn and Dodd, are observing the occupants of another Cube. Having to oversee all the deaths inside on a daily basis, they're both resigned to their permanent jobs and afraid of ending up in there themselves. Things change when Wynn becomes interested in one of the captives and discovers that her use as a lab rat wasn't properly authorized. He heads down to the lower levels to help them, upon which the higher-ups in charge of the Cube project send down their own team to extract Wynn.

** [[spoiler:Wynn's actions and words after he is lobotomized are the same as Kazon in his introduction, implying that he is either the same person, or Kazon was lobotomized rather than handicapped.]]