10 Dystopian Sci-Fi Films Where The State Wins

10. Cube 2: Hypercube (2004)

Cube 2: Hypercube, the sequel to Vincenzo Natali's masterful, pre-Saw bottle horror, got about as much attention as its predecessor, despite upping the stakes and providing an unexpectedly expansive world of fears for the puzzle game horror.

Hypercube lands us in an all-new cube structure, with another rag-tag group of strangers who must band together to get out alive, while battling temporal, spatial, metaphysical and just downright weird traps. And maybe, just maybe, in the process they can find out who is behind the mysterious Izon corporation that has created the whole ordeal. While the players start off on even footing, psychotherapist Kate (Kari Matchett) soon takes centre stage, not least because she is one of the only remaining members of the group by the time we hit the third act.

But despite Kate snagging a little drive of confidential data on Izon from one of the other captives, and making it to the exit in one piece, things don't quite go down as planned. The sole survivor of the Hypercube, Kate wakes up in the hands of unnamed operatives, and is shot in the head, as the other shoe finally drops: Izon is a proxy for the US government, used to disguise its nefarious experiments involving its own citizens. They terminate "Phase 2" and abandon the facility, moving on to who only knows what next.