best movie i've ever seen.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Beautifully framed bright red phone booth in the middle of an open square, framed by trees. Kids play around it, nuns walk past it, and a businessman in a screamingly loud necktie curiously gets stuck in it, after trying (and failing) to use it. Stuck in this bright red phone box, in the middle of an open square, framed by the trees, like a goldfish being watched by a cat.Filmed in a wide angle lens(?) giving distortion and aerial perspective to the phone box, its lines perfectly corresponding to the lines of an apartment building behind it.Crowd soon gathers, some try to help him, to no avail. Even a strongman, bashing it with his massive shoulders, cannot free the guy, or even shatter the glass.Convenient handyman proves to be not very handy at all. Fire department eventually shows up, before those responsible for installing the phone box return for it, put it on the back of a truck and drive off with it- and with the guy still trapped inside.He is driven past another bald businessman in a screamingly loud necktie stuck in another identical phone box, also unable to free himself. Driven through burnt out industrial areas and scrap metal yards - and past a midget holding a ship in a bottle. He's even followed by a low flying helicopter, who refuses to (or is unable to) help him.Interesting geometrical shapes framing the phone box prison throughout, film seems like a slightly overlong episode of The Twilight Zone.

There's little I can add to the other comments on the film. Like others, I saw it as a child and never got over it. I spent countless hours fruitlessly trawling google for a film called "man in a glass booth". Finally after a tip-off from the only other person I know who'd seen it, I found it on YouTube. It brought it all back in the short 30-odd wobbly minutes it lasts, and reminded me that this bizarre childhood experience is central to my love of film now.I am convinced this was shown on more than one occasion by the BBC. The range of dates and ages given by other reviewers is too broad to be down to error (you *know* how old you were when you saw La Cabina). I saw it in the early 80s, but definitely later than 1980. Maybe it was a stock film the Beeb held in case they needed to fill in late night when the schedules ran awry.OK it's dated a little, but not enough to detract from the effect. Which is profound.But if you've read this far you've probably already seen it. If so *please log in and vote on this title*. The reviews have made me realise how valuable IMDb is. If you've any new views on interpretation, I think we'd all like to hear them. The mean score for La Cabina is so high it would rank in the top 100 on here if only it had enough votes. So give something back, create an account and vote on La Cabina and be part of the IMDb process. We might even finally get this "little dirty gem" the attention it deserves!

For those seeking to see this again you can find it on you tube Emmy award-winning 1972 film written and directed by Spanish director Antonio Mercer o - this is a great short movie. I am reminded of the Monty python sketch when i watch this, the one where a milkman is lured upstairs by a woman in her lingerie and when he goes into the room she locks the door behind him and there are a room of milkmen all various ages. I have heard that this is supposed to be a movie full of symbolism relating to the Spanish dictatorship at the time of its creation and the fact that the Spanish government were supposedly behind a large number of disappearances

La Cabina is a mostly unknown little gem of a horror flick that came out of Spain in 1972. La Cabina came to my attention after a few people talked very highly of it on IMDb's Horror Board. After enjoying a couple other shorts that were recommended by the board (The Ten Steps, Gorgonas and Taken) I decided to give this baby a shot as well. And tell ya what, those people on the Horror Board seems to know their stuff....well the regulars do anyways.La Cabina is the simple story of a man who becomes trapped in a telephone booth. You wouldn't think that such a simple premise would be such an entertaining movie, but you'd be wrong. Through very nice directing and acting by the man inside the booth, you grow to know the man in a small yet personal way. You realize he's a father early on, and immediately once he begins to panic and once things seem to start going wrong, you start feeling for him. Through shots of him looking onto the crowd that has amassed around his lil prison to a shot of him staring out at a bunch of Circus Freaks. This immediately brought the question, maybe the question that pops in everyone's mind when seeing this scene, "Who's the Circus Freak now?" The movie seemed to start off as a comedy of sorts, with people laughing and failing humorously while attempting to rid this man of his telephone booth nightmare. Things end up becoming weirder as the movie goes on and I'll just leave it at that.La Cabina is a nice little horror flick that you can find at the moment on Youtube. I'm not holding any promises that it's still there if you read this, but I'd definitely try searching for it if you can. Reminded me of in a small way of DUEL with a single man dealing with a bizarre and possibly dangerous problem. If you enjoy horror movies or are just a fan of cinema, this is something you should check out. The version I saw was without subtitles, but honestly, I didn't miss them at all, his expressions and the people's actions were words enough.