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Today, we have an episode for you that originally published 321, 2025.

It is an episode covering the 1972 Spanish short film La Cabina, the telephone box.

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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick. And last week on Weird House Cinema, we talked about the 1984 fantasy short film Quest directed by Saul and Elaine Bass.

And that was a real good time. If you haven't heard that episode yet, I recommend you go back and check that out.

But this week, I kind of wanted to stick to the theme of short films, especially weird short films in the 30-minute runtime zone.

That's about how long quest was.

So today, we're going to be talking about a picture that I've had on my list for a while,

the surreal, genre-difying 1972 made-for-TV Spanish short film La Cabina,

or The Telephone Box, directed by Antonio Mercero.

Now, much like Quest, the telephone box, you can really do in a one-sentence plot description.

It is very light on plot machinations, not a lot of dialogue, not a lot of information to process, except for weird little

images and things to kind of wonder how you should read as the situation develops.

But instead of a plot, per se, this movie really does have more of a situation.

And that situation is, a man gets stuck inside a telephone booth and he can't get

out. And warning before we say anything else, this movie does have some major twists and surprises,

and we're going to be talking about all of that. So if you want to watch it unspoiled,

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