Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

Cortechba Overrated

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

pdbclarke A film I saw soon after it was released in 1972. Like others it has remained in my memory since then. As a teenager I too kept my foot in the door. In 1995 I met a Spanish women (who became my wife) and the La Cabina was filmed in a plaza (square) adjacent to my grandmother--in--law's home. La Cabina was filmed in Plaza de Arapiles, Madrid. It now appears that Madrid community is to locate a Cabina similar to that of the film in the same location. The screenplay is sublime and transcends the need to understand Spanish.

juggler24960 Like many others, I first saw this masterpiece by accident, as far as I can remember in 1976 (hot summer) at about one in the morning.I can only agree with all the comments posted so far with a small addition. Did anyone else notice that (spoiler warning) all the victims seemed, by their clothing and age, to be middle management guys who were probably past their (for want of a better word) best?It was a detail that really struck me. Was the sinister phone company ridding the city of these rather useless people for some reason? Maybe my memory is playing tricks but when the protagonist looked around him at his final destination, they all looked like that type; balding, mid-forties, short stature and cheap suits.Also, when he is travelling on the back of the truck he sees an identical phone box with a man in it. The door is closed, the man finishes (or fails to make) a call and then, after some attempts, opens the door and steps out. This man is younger, taller, has a good head of hair and a well fitting suit. The phone box didn't want him!Please post if you agree or disagree!I still watch this short from time to time, my copy is a VHS rip unfortunately and the quality is dire, but this is a completely wonderful thing that should, as others have said, have a much wider viewing in it's original quality.In conclusion, I love this film and have traumatised my children with it, just as I was traumatised by it so many years ago. I am saying that this is a good thing because anything that can have such a deep impact should be seen by anyone who wants to be really affected by great cinema. I put it right up there with the first time I saw Star Wars, Close Encounters, Jurassic Park, Finding Nemo, Toy Story....OK, I could go on forever, you get the idea.If you love it, share it.Juggler24960.

Imdbidia The Phone Box is one of the most impacting intriguing shorts I have ever seen.The film mixes the theater of the absurd with some white horror and a psychological exploration of the character. It has a great atmosphere, a great performance by the leading actor, and a fantastic ending. The story is able to convey the viewer the character's anxiety, claustrophobic feelings and sense of hopelessness. Rightly deserving of the Emmy it won in 1973.The main actor is Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez, a popular actor in the 1970s, known mostly because of his comedies and his likable characters. He showed his dramatic side in this short and blew most viewers away; probably not as impacting if you have never seen his old movies and performances. The story relies on his performance to be successful and he delivered.The director is a classic of Spanish TV known for his TV family series and light movies. This was his first work as TV director and, wow, what a way to start. Probably the best thing he has ever done.I have watched thousands of movies and shorts and this is one of those that still stands fresh in my memory, mostly because I watched it when I was a teen, and I found it utterly cool and utterly disturbing.

morrison-dylan-fan After having read a number of posts on IMDb boards about there sadly being no subtitled edition of the movie,I was caught completely by surprise,when I stumbled upon a version of the title that had recently been put online,which included English Subtitles.With the option of English Subtitles now being available with the film,I decided that it would be a good time to at last step inside the phone box.The plot:Waving goodbye to his son as he heads off for school,Hombre de la Cabina notices that a telephone box has recently been installed near their block of flats.Deciding to try out the new phone box,Cabina enters the booth and gets set to make a call.As Cabina picks up the phone,the door to the booth slams shut.Finding the line to be disconnected,Cabina puts the phone down and heads for the exit.To his horror,Cabina discovers that the phone booth's door has closed and is now impossible to open,which will lead to Cabina discovering that this may be the last call he ever makes.View on the film:Limiting Cabina's (played by a wonderfully stern Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez) dialogue to two sentences which he says to his son,co-writer/ (along with Jose Luis Garci) director Antonio Mercero smartly scatters the movie with dialogue from all of the residence looking at Cabina situation,which helps to create a rather eerie feeling that Cabina has almost become a circus act.Along with the eerie mood,the writers also take some sly shots at the horrors of Spain's General Franco's reign,with all of the locals being shown as being extremely keen in not helping this isolated 'outsider' in his current situation,and to instead just sit back,and allow the government departments/army to sort this outsider out.For his atmospheric directing, Mercero uses stiff side angels to place the viewer in the claustrophobic horror that Cabina finds himself in.Along with the side angels,Mercero also brilliantly uses wide panning shots to show that this horror is taking place right in the open,as all the residence walk by refusing to answer Cabina's call.