mplb No dripping blood, No imaginary creatures. No haunted house and spooky forest. Just an ordinary morning in and ordinary town full of ordinary people.And there is no answer to the question 'why?'

emrepamukk Firstly, I want to say this movie is amazing. In the beginning it is kind of a black comedy, in the end everybody can feel the anxiety and the fear. We can watch this movie in two ways. First, as an absurd horror movie about a man who got stuck in a telephone box. If we watch this film this way, probably we all will love it. Because the director is so successful at telling stories in cinematic way. Second, as a surreal film which has some thoughts and some allegory about politics. Locally some thoughts about Franco regime, generally some thoughts about totalitarian ideologies. Cencorship, politic slaughters, unconcern of society etc. Think about it. Could we hear our main character's voice when he got stuck in the telephone box. A main character who has not any right to talk. What a despotic film! What a censorship! We all can see the unconcern of society during the movie, except the circus guys and the dwarf. They were exiled from the society. They were funny, they were freak, they were miserable. But while the society were laughing to our character, the "freaks" were not laughing. Actually they felt sorry for him. Because they were unwelcome people for their society and their despotic regime. They were the rebels against the despotism who had no power to fight. This movie is a masterpiece in two ways as stated above. But do not watch it like a horror movie. It would be insulting this masterpiece.

steven-87 I stumbled across this short film quite by accident on YouTube. Within 30 seconds I recognised it as "that" film I had seen in the early 80s and which terrified the life out of me. Even more amazed to find all these reviews on IMDb from people who must have seen it at the same time as me all those years ago and for whom the impact has not lessened in the slightest with the passage of time. Watching it again 30 years on, I find it not so much terrifying as extremely disturbing and with a very powerful message. I can interpret this movie in a number of ways but I believe it is telling the viewer that each of us, quite at random, can find their lives completely changed for the worse - and without hope of repair - by a whim of fate. That may be a fatal illness, an accident to ourselves or a loved one, or any number of such scenarios. The point being that a) it's as likely to happen to us as anyone else and b) we have to live with the consequences, however unfair or unjust they undoubtedly are. And, like the man in the phone box, we ask "but why me??" The real genius of this short film is that it supplies no answer to the question - nor does it even hint at one. For there is no answer.

smoke-belch I watched it in the early 80s as a kid in England and still remember the shock of seeing the skeletons in all the other phone boxes and realising the poor bloke was doomed.What's more scary is that like Deferenz I am a fellow casualty from watching Salem's Lot as a kid (in West Sussex too. So similar was his post to my experiences that I had to do a double check that his post wasn't one I'd written at some point in the past). Even as a 38 ish year old I still can't have the curtains open in the bedroom at night. As a kid I could scare myself sh!#less just by leaving the curtains open and waiting for a pasty faced mate with suspiciously pointy teeth to float up to my window and start scratching on it and saying "Hey Justin, open the window, let me in"