The Maze Runner is an existential horror story that mixes the fraternal feuding of Lord of the Flies with the giant tentacled menace of 1950s sci-fi monster movies such as Tarantula, with the Kafka-esque social order of the 1960s cult series The Prisoner, with the garbage-compactor scene from the first Star Wars.
Multiply that last one - two giant slabs of concrete closing in on Luke Skywalker and crew - a few thousand times: The band of boys who live inside a big encampment in The Maze Runner, their memories erased, their purpose unknown, are ringed by towering walls that shift and clang with ominous author...
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