Circle (2015)
Directed by Aaron Hann
In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.
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It is somewhat similar to Cube in concept but has more of an emphasis on exploring the ethical dilemma of a deadly survival situation.
This plot anticipates the many subsequent films ( Cube , Saw , and Circle ) in which characters wake up in a strange place, disoriented, and with no memory of how they got there.
In the spirit of Cube, but this time with (maybe?) aliens choosing the subjects instead of (maybe?) the government, Circle is a social/survival experiment where most choices lead to your immediate death and only the ruthless will survive.
Modestísimo film independiente, inspirado en cintas como 12 hombres sin piedad (1957) o Cube (1997), y con actores menos conocidos que el pin de la tarjeta bancaria de Amancio Ortega.
Haliyle filmin yıldızı da konusu... En büyük esin kaynağımız “12 Angry Men” demişler ve atmosfer için de “Cube” serisini dillendirmişler.
“Game horror” originated in 1939 with Agatha Christie’s mystery novel, And Then There Were None (made into a very good film, directed by René Clair, in 1945), in which ten people are invited to an island and are, one by one, accused by their absent host of the crime of murder.
Game horror appears to be undergoing something of a renaissance at the moment, and as crucial as the Saw franchise obviously is in this flourishing, it actually began before Saw with the provocative Canadian Cube trilogy: Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997), Cube 2: Hypercube (Andrzej Sekulla), and Cube Zero (Ernie Barbarash, 2004).
Even then, limited-location thrillers are usually spiced up by cutaways to other action or flashbacks, as in Saw (2004), or 127 Hours (2010), or held together by a charismatic central performer giving it their all, as with Ryan Reynolds in Buried (2010) or Tom Hardy in Locke (2013).
Es una recomendable cinta que por beber yo diría que bebe hasta de Saw (2004), pero que nadie se asuste, aquí las muertes son mas livianas que una botellita de agua Font Vella y el suspense, la intriga o incluso la diversión no son más que una parte del rompecabezas del que van a disfrutar.
Game horror appears to be undergoing something of a renaissance at the moment, and as crucial as the Saw franchise obviously is in this flourishing, it actually began before Saw with the provocative Canadian Cube trilogy: Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997), Cube 2: Hypercube (Andrzej Sekulla), and Cube Zero (Ernie Barbarash, 2004).
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Other notable instances include Fermat’s Room (Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopena, 2007), The Exam (Stuart Hazeldine, 2009), Would You Rather?
Even then, limited-location thrillers are usually spiced up by cutaways to other action or flashbacks, as in Saw (2004), or 127 Hours (2010), or held together by a charismatic central performer giving it their all, as with Ryan Reynolds in Buried (2010) or Tom Hardy in Locke (2013).
An example of this is how we consume the planet of its natural resources without any control because the primary aspect is short-term self-gain (remember what Agent Smith declares us to be in The Matrix ?). I’m not preaching, I’m one of the said viruses.
Even then, limited-location thrillers are usually spiced up by cutaways to other action or flashbacks, as in Saw (2004), or 127 Hours (2010), or held together by a charismatic central performer giving it their all, as with Ryan Reynolds in Buried (2010) or Tom Hardy in Locke (2013).
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Even then, limited-location thrillers are usually spiced up by cutaways to other action or flashbacks, as in Saw (2004), or 127 Hours (2010), or held together by a charismatic central performer giving it their all, as with Ryan Reynolds in Buried (2010) or Tom Hardy in Locke (2013).