Theme: Labyrinths

In Greek Mythology, The Labyrinth was an underground maze built by King Minos of Crete that held the Minotaur in its confines. It features in the Greek legend of Theseus who ventures into the labyrinth to kill the minotaur, finding his way out of by leaving a trail of string. From this, the word labyrinth has come to mean something like a maze or a structure with many passages and tunnels where it is easily possible to get lost.

In genre cinema, labyrinths are mysterious realms of alien or unknown origin that people are trapped inside and have to negotiate their way through to find an exit. There can sometimes be monsters, death traps or else a puzzle that those inside have to solve in order to get free. Often the people inside the labyrinths may suffer amnesia about who they are or how they came to be there.