Ass Pull: The ending of the original film where Quentin suddenly shows up and kills Leaven and Worth really comes across this way, as he'd seemingly have to have both Offscreen Teleportation and Psychic Powers to know where they went, and the last we see of him, he's fallen and hit his head with a pool of blood forming, which makes it pretty obvious that the original intent was to just have him die then and there.
Catharsis Factor: After all the horrible and monstrous things he's done, it's really nice to see Quentin cut in half just before the exit he's been aiming for the whole movie.
Complete Monster: Quentin, a police officer, is one of several people who are mysteriously trapped inside a giant cubical maze which is composed of smaller cubical rooms, some of which are booby-trapped. He initially presents himself as a levelheaded leader and assists in navigating the group to the maze's outer edge, but is slowly revealed to be a cruel, violent man who proves to be a bigger threat to the group's survival than the deadly maze itself. He drops Holloway to her death merely because he dislikes her, then lies about it to the others. He tries to rape Leaven not long after. He's stopped in time by Worth, for which Quentin savagely beats him. When the others finally try to leave him behind for what he did, he finds a way back to them at the exit room. He quickly stabs Leaven to death, fatally wounds Worth, and prepares to do the same to the mentally disabled Kazan before he is stopped by the dying Worth.
Contested Sequel: It's often debated whether the second and third movies are worthy additions, or if it would have been best to let the first movie stand on its own. Even people who believe the first film to be far superior can't agree on whether Cube 2: Hypercube or Cube Zero is the better sequel.
Cube 2: Hypercube might have retained the mystery of the Cube, was more serious but far less gory, and had a unique look, but still had some silly characters and Narm scenes. (Sean Hood's original proposal script for Hypercube was on par with Natali's original; better characters, consistently darker mood as the plot goes on and actual, constant danger.)
Cube Zero visually retained the industrial look of the first film and was far less serious with more humorous scenes than either previous film, and left little to no mystery at all, but heightened the gore in places and at least attempted continuity with the first film.
Genre Turning Point: Less for a genre and more for a nation's film industry. Save for the "tax shelter era" of 1975-82, which eventually ended due to the public's outrage over the use of their tax dollars to fund lurid exploitation films, Canada's public film production agencies preferred to support "prestige" films that would win awards and respectability for Canada's film industry. In practice, this meant lots of films that critics adored but nobody saw, and American TV shows coming north of the border for the tax credits (the reason for the Canada Does Not Exist trope). Cube, however, was an unapologetic horror movie partially funded by Telefilm Canada that won Best First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival that year and went on to become a Sleeper Hit that made back its budget more than twenty-five times over. With the success of Cube, Canada became a major hub of "genre" filmmaking and hasn't looked back.
Moral Event Horizon: Quentin grows steadily more hostile over the course of the film, but he doesn't make the full transition into becoming a genuine threat to the group until he lets Holloway fall to her death, tries to rape Leaven, and beats up Worth for stopping him. This causes both Worth and Leaven to keep their distance from him as they've seen that he has become a bigger threat to them than the Cube ever was. It's not very surprising that our protagonists eventually try to get rid of him afterwards.
After everything Quentin does, it is satisfying to watch Worth pushing one of the doors up on Quentin's neck after he has had enough enough of being his punching bag.
Worth using all of his strength to hold Quentin's leg so that the bridge can tear him apart. It's a fitting end for Quentin because he's killed others to escape the cube, and yet when the exit is close by and he could have chosen to peacefully escape, he instead attacks the protagonists only to meet his end by the cube he sought to escape, and by the hand of one his victims, no less.
Screenwriter Graeme Manson is best know these days for a little show about clones.
Folks who watch the movie nowadays might be surprised to see Dr. McKay in the Cube. Some viewers probably were also surprised to see Ezri Dax in here, too.
Rennes is best known (especially in the United States) for playing Mike Hamar on The Red Green Show.
Signature Scene: The famous first kill, where a man is diced into cubes by a grid of razor wire, is the best-known scene in the film.
Visual Effects of Awesome: Despite being dated nowadays, the effects were well-done (and are still very impressive) for a No Budget film, especially since the CG was done free.
Kazan is badly mentally handicapped, which makes putting him in the Cube seem especially cruel, as he would have had no chance of surviving if he hadn't met the others. At least he actually survives.
So Okay, It's Average: The game is generally regarded as an inferior version of Serious Sam, with the two saving graces being that it came with a level designer and it's free and open source, which for the latter, a rarity among video games.
