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La cabina

  • TV Movie
  • 19721972
  • 35m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
4.3K
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La cabina (1972)
DramaHorror
A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.
IMDb RATING
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4.3K
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  • Director
    • Antonio Mercero
  • Writers
    • Antonio Mercero(story)
    • José Luis Garci(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • José Luis López Vázquez
    • Agustín González
    • Goyo Lebrero
  • Director
    • Antonio Mercero
  • Writers
    • Antonio Mercero(story)
    • José Luis Garci(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • José Luis López Vázquez
    • Agustín González
    • Goyo Lebrero
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 64User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 5 wins

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    José Luis López Vázquez
    José Luis López Vázquez
    • Hombre en la cabina
    Agustín González
    Agustín González
    • Hombre en la segunda cabina
    Goyo Lebrero
    • Jefe de bomberos
    Tito García
    Tito García
    • Señor corpulento
    Carmen Martínez Sierra
    • Señora 1
    Carmen Luján
    • Señora 2
    María Vico
    Felipe Martín Puertas
    • Trabajador 1
    • (as Felipe Martín Puerta)
    José Montijano
    • Trabajador 2
    Blaki
    • Guardia
    Mariano Bardera
      Antonio Moreno
      • Cristalero
      José Miguel Aguado
      • Niño
      José Manuel Hoyos
      • Niño
      Brandy
      • Malabarista
      • (uncredited)
      Moisés García
        • Director
          • Antonio Mercero
        • Writers
          • Antonio Mercero(story) (screenplay)
          • José Luis Garci(screenplay)
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        User reviews64

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        8/10
        Classic Cult Horror Short From Spain
        Horror is often associated with Gothic imagery . Think of how many classic horror films have thunder storms sweeping over bleak desolate moorland and there in the middle of the frame lies a foreboding castle . But often banal everyday objects can be used for instruments of horror . Classic DOCTOR WHO was very good at this and one of my earliest memories was watching the story Terror Of The Autons where a child's doll came alive and tried to attack the Doctor's companion Jo Grant. The Pertwee era was full of this type of imagery where the banal suddenly became dangerous . It continues today and 35 years from now middle aged people will say they are instinctively frightened to look away from statues

        LA CABINA follows this type of trend . Spain has a rich history of morbid cinema and perhaps this 1972 horror short is the closest the country came to having an equivalent of DOCTOR WHO . Everyone knows what a phone box is and before everyone had a mobile phone we all used a public phone box which were dotted around cities , towns and villages. No one gave them much thought and after seeing this LA CABINA you'll never look at a phone box in the same way again as the story starts off in a everyday manner and becomes more and more terrifying as an unnamed man finds himself trapped in one

        Earlier tonight I saw a documentary by Mark Gatiss where he stated Spainish horror didn't confront its fascist past until Guillermo Del Toroarrived on the scene but I disagree . You don't have to read between the lines very much to realise LA CABINA is a statement on fascism . The trapped man could be a marrano converso or a leftist or any other undesirable living in a fascist regime . It's interesting too that the man's fate takes place for the most part in public and one wonders what excuses would be offered by the witnesses ? " I didn't hear anything , I didn't see anything , I didn't know what was going on " . It's also co-written by Jose Luis Garci whose later work often used the transition from Francoism to democracy as a theme

        That said if anyone watched this as I did on Channel 4 sometime in the late 1980s the political subtext would be quickly forgotten by the audience but the gloomy ,doom laden ending wouldn't . I'd even forgotten what the title and I'm glad I've found out " The Spanish film about the man trapped in the telephone box " is called LA CABINA
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        • Theo Robertson
        • Oct 30, 2012

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        • Release date
          • December 13, 1972 (Spain)
        • Country of origin
          • Spain
        • Language
          • Spanish
        • Also known as
          • The Phone Box
        • Filming locations
          • Aldeadávila de la Ribera, Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain(location)
        • Production company
          • Televisión Española (TVE)
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        • Runtime
          35 minutes

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