20 Suspiciously Similar Movie Scenes You Never Noticed

6. Resident Evil/ Cube

Cult horrors Cube and Resident Evil are two entirely different horror films stylistically: the former is more of an art film that explores human behavior while Resident Evil far less artful, and far more grand and explosive. The difference isn't all that surprising, given that the latter is directed by Paul WS Anderson who is essentially a low rent Michael Bay and is adaptated from the video game series. Early in Anderson's film, Alice leads an elite military team into a laboratory to shut down its computer. Naturally, some soldiers scout ahead and become trapped in a hallway that is monitored by the AI in the facility, and a few moments later lasers begin moving through the room slicing them apart. The final soldier is sliced into small cubes by a series of lasers forming a grid, which cut him up like butter.

The scene undoubtedly recalls an near identical moment early on in Cube, which sets the mood of the entire picture. Cube's slice o'matic was a well known scene in horror fandom well before Resident Evil was released, and it's clear that Anderson wanted to borrow some of that iconography. But why steal from something that horror fans would so easily recognize?