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Recent thread on here about the new phone box / assassin movie got me thinking of a weird foreign (possibly Italian or Spanish?) horror film I saw on TV when I was a kid (late 70`s / early 80`s). A bloke finds himself locked in a phone box in the middle of the day in a town centre. Passers by are amused. Van eventually turns up to help him but it just lifts the box up with him in it and takes him away. Seem to remember the van was driven by scary dwarves (are there any other kind in horror films?!), although I may have imagined that bit after eating too many Spangles!

Van eventually drops phone box in a Raiders-esque huge warehouse full of similar telephone boxes containing dead / decaying / dying people. Simplistic yes, but it scared the ar*e off me as a pre-teen! Remember seeing a similar sketch in Monty Python involving a busty housewife and milkmen locked in a bedroom, funnily enough!

Anyways, anyone else see it, hear of it being available? Would like to watch it again to prove it was real..It scared me more than The Singing Ringing Tree, and that`s saying something!

Sounds like a twilight zone episode.

Yep, similar feel to it but it was definitely European (and in colour).

It`s called `The Phone Booth` (although no idea what the original title was)...

http://www.wayney.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/lacabina.htm

here you go! (amazing what you can find on google)

La cabina.

This item was edited on Thursday, 13th March 2003, 14:48

A classic, thanks Alan for the search that brought this up.

Pete

Top Man Alan. Thanks for that. I`m not going mad, then. Can`t see any dwarves in the pictures though, so maybe I imagined that bit in an e-number fuelled daze! Agreed with the comments on the page about it staying with you if you saw it as a kid...spooky!

nope..not going mad...I remember this vividly from just one viewing. Great film!

I remember a C4 type short film where a bloke is parked in a undrground multi story car park and know mater how many floors he goes up or down he can never get out.

All the best,

The 42%er.