Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

FilmCriticLalitRao Any horror film should not attempt to be a perfect "Evil Dead" clone in order to create fear in hearts and minds of its viewers. This unconventional view takes into account the fact that true horror consists of something grotesque which is capable of instilling an element of fear. It does not need to be a blood Slasher genre film to be classified in the horror's hall of fame. If seen from this perspective, Spanish short film 'The Phone Box' can be considered as a quintessential horror film which continues to remain miles ahead of mainstream horror films which merely take into account viewers' ability to get easily frightened. It must also be noted that in the realm of short film, it is fairly common for screenwriters to take an elementary idea in order to blow it further for achieving great results. What is worth noticing is that seldom do short films achieve such a kind of celebrity status as achieved by "La Cabina". As a scathing attack on selfish attitudes of people, Mercero and Garci have launched a brutal attack on ordinary people for whom a common man's suffering is merely another form of "Spectacle". Those who can read between the lines would not fail to discern how subtly the political situation in Spain of olden times was criticized. It was a time when common citizens got trapped into situations wherein their individual freedom was severely curtailed as depicted in this film. This film deliberately chose not to have a happy end as daily life's simple events can lead to complicated situations. It is hoped that viewers would take it in account while watching the film's protagonist who did not notice how and when his silent composure in the time of distress got transformed into a feeling of genuine disappointment and acute hopelessness.

jonwestley When I was a child I played outside. I was happy. I did not know about life. I skipped school. I looked at the stars. I was innocent. I loved purely the girl I saw across the street. I was happy. I like films that move me. 'Soft' films like Field of dreams. I'm not a critic. I like happy endings. This is not a film I would have chosen to watch. I tuned in to this once by accident when I was young. It has never left me. I'm not happy I watched it. It changed me. It stole my childhood. I would not have missed it for the world. To this day I speak of it. No one I know has ever seen it. I always wondered if I imagined it. Having seen IMDb I now know it was real. Now I have worse fears. Was this really a film or a message sent to just a few to warn us. A warning. A WARNING. I would have missed it for the world. Oh God.

Chas Newport What an incredible film.The way your frustration and anxiety build along with the main character is extremely clever as you realise how wound up you are is only a tiny fraction of what he's feeling. I confess that watching it in four parts on YouTube I felt compelled to skip bits as I was so curious to find out the ending and I could also feel myself becoming genuinely physically agitated - which as a sufferer of high blood pressure is not good. A horror film so good it should come with a health warning - you really can't say better than that.Evoking genuine empathy for someone else's terror is, I now realise, a very hard thing to do. Modern horror confuses making people nervous or making people jump with making people scared... this is genuinely terrifying.The political undertones not lost on me either but less interesting.

Prof-Hieronymos-Grost A man gets trapped in a new phone box. He becomes ever more worried as the efforts of passers by and then the emergency services fail to free him. He goes through a range of emotions from out right fear to embarrassment as passers by, alternate between helping and laughing at his plight. What at first seems like a plot fit for a comedy becomes ever more dark, culminating in the darkest of dark endings, said to be an allegory for things that happened under the fascist state set up by Franco. The film is glorious in its simplicity and plays almost like a silent film with very little dialogue, to such an extent that even subtitles aren't really required to get the gist of this fantastic film. Made for Spanish TV, La Cabina is a powerful film that can't but fail to leave its impression in the mindset of its viewers,its devastating finale being the stuff of real nightmares, it has haunted me for over 30 years without ever losing any of its effectiveness.