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* DownerEnding: The film's infamous ending might be one of the most nihilistic ever put to film. [[spoiler: The truck carrying the phone box reaches its final destination, a large mountain complex, with the man still trapped inside the box. The box is brought to a large underground area where the man discovers, to his horror, that there are hundreds of phone boxes with ''the decaying remains of other men trapped inside them''. [[KarmaHoudini And the phone company gets away with it, setting up another phone box in the same plaza and preparing it for the next unsuspecting victim.]]
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* DownerEnding: The film's infamous ending might be one of the most nihilistic ever put to film. [[spoiler: The truck carrying the phone box reaches its final destination, a large mountain complex, with the man still trapped inside the box. The box is brought to a large underground area where the man discovers, to his horror, that there are hundreds of phone boxes with ''the decaying remains of other men trapped inside them''. [[KarmaHoudini And the phone company gets away with it, setting up another phone box in the same plaza and preparing it for the next unsuspecting victim.]]]]]]
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This short film became notable for winning the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction, the only Spanish programme to have won it, and for causing most Spanish viewers at the time to become scared of phone boxes, to the extent that the country's major phone company had to commision some commercials with the movie's lead actor (who had done commercials for them before) to show the public that the boxes where safe.[[note]]This was during the tail end of the regime of Francisco Franco, where thousands of people had suffered from enforced disappearances during and after the Spanish Civil War (which was still a relatively recent memory at the time).[[/note]] Still, you never know...
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This short film became notable for winning the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction, the only Spanish programme to have won it, and for causing most Spanish viewers at the time to become scared of phone boxes, to the extent that the country's major phone company had to commision some commercials with the movie's lead actor (who had done commercials for them before) before, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3cc4RUBoYE including one where he briefly thinks he is trapped in a similar phone box!]]) to show the public that the boxes where safe.[[note]]This was during the tail end of the regime of Francisco Franco, where thousands of people had suffered from enforced disappearances during and after the Spanish Civil War (which was still a relatively recent memory at the time).[[/note]] Still, you never know...
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* DownerEnding: The film's infamous ending might be one of the most nihilistic ever put to film. [[spoiler: The truck carrying the phone box reaches its final destination, a large mountain complex, with the man still trapped inside the box. The box is brought to a large underground area where the man discovers, to his horror, that there are hundreds of phone boxes with ''the decaying remains of other men trapped inside them''.]]
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* DownerEnding: The film's infamous ending might be one of the most nihilistic ever put to film. [[spoiler: The truck carrying the phone box reaches its final destination, a large mountain complex, with the man still trapped inside the box. The box is brought to a large underground area where the man discovers, to his horror, that there are hundreds of phone boxes with ''the decaying remains of other men trapped inside them''. [[KarmaHoudini And the phone company gets away with it, setting up another phone box in the same plaza and preparing it for the next unsuspecting victim.]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: Why was the phone company imprisoning people in phone booths?
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* RiddleForTheAges: Why was the phone company imprisoning people in phone booths?boxes?
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* RiddleForTheAges: Why was the phone company imprisoning people in phone booths?
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This short film became notable for winning the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction, the only Spanish programme to have won it, and for causing most Spanish viewers at the time to become scared of phone boxes, to the extend that the National Phone Company had to commision some PSAs with the movie's lead actor to show the public that the boxes where safe. Still, you never know...
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This short film became notable for winning the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction, the only Spanish programme to have won it, and for causing most Spanish viewers at the time to become scared of phone boxes, to the extend extent that the National Phone Company country's major phone company had to commision some PSAs commercials with the movie's lead actor (who had done commercials for them before) to show the public that the boxes where safe. safe.[[note]]This was during the tail end of the regime of Francisco Franco, where thousands of people had suffered from enforced disappearances during and after the Spanish Civil War (which was still a relatively recent memory at the time).[[/note]] Still, you never know...
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* FromBadToWorse: The protagonist has the worst day of his life. First, he gets trapped inside the phone box. The various attempts to rescue him go nowhere. His neighbours treat the ordeal like a circus. And to top it all of, he's taken to the HQ of the phone company, which turns out to be [[spoiler: a surreal facility used for storing phone boxes containing the corpses of other trapped individuals. To make matters ''even'' worse, his son will never see him again.]]
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* FromBadToWorse: The protagonist has the worst day of his life. First, he gets trapped inside the phone box. The various attempts to rescue him go nowhere. His neighbours treat the ordeal like a circus. And to top it all of, off, he's taken to the HQ of the phone company, which turns out to be [[spoiler: a surreal facility used for storing phone boxes containing the corpses of other trapped individuals. To make matters ''even'' worse, his son will never see him again.]]
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* FromBadToWose: The protagonist has the worst day of his life. First, he gets trapped inside the phone box. The various attempts to rescue him go nowhere. His neighbours treat the ordeal like a circus. And to top it all of, he's taken to the HQ of the phone company, which turns out to be [[spoiler: a surreal facility used for storing phone boxes containing the corpses of other trapped individuals. To make matters ''even'' worse, his son will never see him again.]]
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* FromBadToWose: FromBadToWorse: The protagonist has the worst day of his life. First, he gets trapped inside the phone box. The various attempts to rescue him go nowhere. His neighbours treat the ordeal like a circus. And to top it all of, he's taken to the HQ of the phone company, which turns out to be [[spoiler: a surreal facility used for storing phone boxes containing the corpses of other trapped individuals. To make matters ''even'' worse, his son will never see him again.]]
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* FromBadToWose: The protagonist has the worst day of his life. First, he gets trapped inside the phone box. The various attempts to rescue him go nowhere. His neighbours treat the ordeal like a circus. And to top it all of, he's taken to the HQ of the phone company, which turns out to be [[spoiler: a surreal facility used for storing phone boxes containing the corpses of other trapped individuals. To make matters ''even'' worse, his son will never see him again.]]
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* ParanoiaFuel: The short film was so impactful that people in real life avoided using red telephone boxes or wedged their foot in the door to prevent being trapped. This led to various phone box companies suffering financially for a while.
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* ParanoiaFuel: The short film was so impactful that people in real life avoided using red telephone boxes or wedged their foot in the door to prevent being trapped. This led to various phone box companies suffering financially for a while.
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* DownerEnding: The film's infamous ending might be one of the most nihilistic ever put to film. [[spoiler:The truck carrying the phone box reaches its final destination, a large mountain complex, with the man still trapped inside the box. The box is brought to a large underground area where the man discovers, to his horror, that there are hundreds of phone boxes with ''the decaying remains of other men trapped inside them''.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: While being transported to the phone company's HQ, the man spots another truck carrying a similar phone box with another middle-aged man trapped inside it. The two attempt communication but can't hear each other. Later on, when the truck arrives at the underground facility full of phone boxes with dead men inside them, the protagonist turns around and sees the other man from earlier. The other man, still trapped, had committed suicide by strangling himself with the phone cord.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: While being transported to the phone company's HQ, the man spots another truck carrying a similar phone box with another middle-aged man trapped inside it. The two attempt communication but can't hear each other. Later on, when the truck arrives at the underground facility full of phone boxes with dead men inside them, the protagonist turns around and sees the other man from earlier. The other man, still trapped, had committed suicide by strangling himself with the phone cord.]]
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* DownerEnding: The film's infamous ending might be one of the most nihilistic ever put to film. [[spoiler:The [[spoiler: The truck carrying the phone box reaches its final destination, a large mountain complex, with the man still trapped inside the box. The box is brought to a large underground area where the man discovers, to his horror, that there are hundreds of phone boxes with ''the decaying remains of other men trapped inside them''.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: While being transported to the phone company's HQ, the man spots another truck carrying a similar phone box with another middle-aged man trapped inside it. The two attempt communication but can't hear each other. Later on, when the truck arrives at the underground facility full of phone boxes with dead men inside them, the protagonist turns around and seesthe other man from earlier.a familiar corpse. The other man, still trapped, had committed suicide by strangling himself with the phone cord.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: While being transported to the phone company's HQ, the man spots another truck carrying a similar phone box with another middle-aged man trapped inside it. The two attempt communication but can't hear each other. Later on, when the truck arrives at the underground facility full of phone boxes with dead men inside them, the protagonist turns around and sees
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''La Cabina'' (''The Phone Box'') is a 1972 Spanish [[MadeForTVMovie made-for-TV]] horror/dark comedy short film about a mysterious phone box installed in the middle of a park where an unasuming man gets trapped after the door closes behind him. Unable to exit the box, the desperately pleads for help to any passerby, but no-one can free him. After hours inside (and whith a gawking crowd laughing at his predicament), the crewmen from the phone company arrive to take the box away, still with the man inside.
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''La Cabina'' (''The Phone Box'') is a 1972 Spanish [[MadeForTVMovie made-for-TV]] horror/dark comedy short film about a mysterious phone box installed in the middle of a park where an unasuming unassuming man gets trapped after the door closes behind him. Unable to exit the box, the desperately pleads for help to any passerby, but no-one can free him. After hours inside (and whith a gawking crowd laughing at his predicament), the crewmen from the phone company arrive to take the box away, still with the man inside.
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* DrivenToSuicide:DownerEnding: The film's infamous ending might be one of the most nihilistic ever put to film. [[spoiler:The truck carrying the phone box reaches its final destination, a large mountain complex, with the man still trapped inside the box. The box is brought to a large underground area where the man discovers, to his horror, that there are hundreds of phone boxes with ''the decaying remains of other men trapped inside them''.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: While being transported to the phone company's HQ, the man spots another truck carrying a similar phone box with another middle-aged man trapped inside it. The two attempt communication but can't hear each other. Later on, when the truck arrives at the underground facility full of phone boxes with dead men inside them, the protagonist turns around and sees the other man from earlier. The other man, still trapped, had committed suicide by strangling himself with the phone cord.]]
* HumansAreBastards: A crowd gathers to witness the man's plight after he gets trapped in the phone box. While some of them attempt to break him free, the rest of the crowd, children included, find the situation funny.
* TheVoiceless: This is what becomes of the protagonist once his horrific ordeal begins. Since everything is filmed outside the box we can hear the other characters' dialogue but not his.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: While being transported to the phone company's HQ, the man spots another truck carrying a similar phone box with another middle-aged man trapped inside it. The two attempt communication but can't hear each other. Later on, when the truck arrives at the underground facility full of phone boxes with dead men inside them, the protagonist turns around and sees the other man from earlier. The other man, still trapped, had committed suicide by strangling himself with the phone cord.]]
* HumansAreBastards: A crowd gathers to witness the man's plight after he gets trapped in the phone box. While some of them attempt to break him free, the rest of the crowd, children included, find the situation funny.
* TheVoiceless: This is what becomes of the protagonist once his horrific ordeal begins. Since everything is filmed outside the box we can hear the other characters' dialogue but not his.
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''La Cabina'' (''The Phone Box'') is a 1972 Spanish [[MadeForTVMovie made-for-TV]] horror/dark comedy about a mysterious phone box installed in the middle of a park where an unasuming man gets trapped after the door closes behind him. Unable to exit the box, the desperately pleads for help to any passerby, but no-one can free him. After hours inside (and whith a gawking crowd laughing at his predicament), the crewmen from the phone company arrive to take the box away, still with the man inside.
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''La Cabina'' (''The Phone Box'') is a 1972 Spanish [[MadeForTVMovie made-for-TV]] horror/dark comedy short film about a mysterious phone box installed in the middle of a park where an unasuming man gets trapped after the door closes behind him. Unable to exit the box, the desperately pleads for help to any passerby, but no-one can free him. After hours inside (and whith a gawking crowd laughing at his predicament), the crewmen from the phone company arrive to take the box away, still with the man inside.
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''La Cabina'' (''The Phone Box'') is a 1972 Spanish MadeForTVMovie about a mysterious phone box installed in the middle of a park where an unasuming man gets trapped after the door closes behind him. Unable to exit the box, the desperately pleads for help to any passerby, but no-one can free him. After hours inside (and whith a gawking crowd laughing at his predicament), the crewmen from the phone company arrive to take the box away, still with the man inside.
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''La Cabina'' (''The Phone Box'') is a 1972 Spanish MadeForTVMovie [[MadeForTVMovie made-for-TV]] horror/dark comedy about a mysterious phone box installed in the middle of a park where an unasuming man gets trapped after the door closes behind him. Unable to exit the box, the desperately pleads for help to any passerby, but no-one can free him. After hours inside (and whith a gawking crowd laughing at his predicament), the crewmen from the phone company arrive to take the box away, still with the man inside.
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This short film became notable for winning the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction, the only Spanish programme to have won it, and for causing most Spanish viewers at the time to become scared of phone boxes, to the extend that the National Phone Company had to commision some PSAs with the movie's lead actor to show the public that the boxes where safe. Still, you never know...
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This short film became notable for winning the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction, the only Spanish programme to have won it, and for causing most Spanish viewers at the time to become scared of phone boxes, to the extend that the National Phone Company had to commision some PSAs with the movie's lead actor to show the public that the boxes where safe. Still, you never know...know...
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''La Cabina'' (''The Phone Box'') is a 1972 Spanish MadeForTVMovie about a mysterious phone box installed in the middle of a park where an unasuming man gets trapped after the door closes behind him. Unable to exit the box, the desperately pleads for help to any passerby, but no-one can free him. After hours inside (and whith a gawking crowd laughing at his predicament), the crewmen from the phone company arrive to take the box away, still with the man inside.
This short film became notable for winning the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction, the only Spanish programme to have won it, and for causing most Spanish viewers at the time to become scared of phone boxes, to the extend that the National Phone Company had to commision some PSAs with the movie's lead actor to show the public that the boxes where safe. Still, you never know...
This short film became notable for winning the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction, the only Spanish programme to have won it, and for causing most Spanish viewers at the time to become scared of phone boxes, to the extend that the National Phone Company had to commision some PSAs with the movie's lead actor to show the public that the boxes where safe. Still, you never know...
