LA CABINA
Who remembers La Cabina? Well, perhaps not by name, but if you ever see a particularly wonderful foreign film about a man trapped in a telephone booth, then you'll never forget it! The movie has attained a cult status in the UK mainly due to the fact so few people have seen it, but those that caught a late-night showing in the 80's have had it burned into their memory forever.
La Cabina was a 1972 35-minute Spanish TV-Movie by Antonio Mercero about a man (played by José Luis López Vázquez) who tries to make a phone call on an out-of-order telephone booth. Unfortunately, the booth is a trap and he finds himself stuck inside...
Passers-by try to help him escape from the booth, but soon after a phone company truck appears and transports the booth away to an underground factory that contains hundreds of identical booths -- containing the skeletal remains of past victims, some of whom committed suicide with the phone cord...
Remember it now? If not, I recommend you download La Cabina on bittorrent here. It won an Emmy in 1972 for Best International Fiction, and quite deservedly so. Recommended to all fans of surreal cinema.
