10 Out Of This World Sci-Fi Horror Movie Deaths

In The Tall Grass helmer/ sci-fi horror veteran Vincenzo Natali made his unforgettable debut with the 1997 horror thriller Cube, a survival sci-fi whose story is as simple as it is ingenious. Playing out like a gorier remix of The Twilight Zone, the film finds a group of mismatched heroes waking up inside a blank, cube-shaped room and attempting to escape the holding facility in which they appear to be trapped, with each room's exit revealing another identical (and lethally booby trapped) room.

The opening scene sets up proceedings nicely with an unforgettably gory death that proves not every sci-fi horror demise needs to be facilitated by an alien monster, whether it's big enough to wreck Manhattan or small enough to scrawl inside your mouth.

The unfortunate first victim in the flick scrambles to escape the eponymous blank white room only to unintentionally trigger a trap which proceeds to send steel wires through the room at a rate of noughts.

He's summarily sliced and diced by the set of wires which cut the room and its only inhabitant into (appropriately enough) cubes, his corpse slowly sliding apart as a result.

It's a horrifying fate which proved so shocking that it was nicked by Resident Evil’s movie adaptation, though the video game film did have the good grace to change the chopping implement into a laser.