In a Glass Cage
1986 · Movie · NC-17 · 112 min · ★ 6.8 · 62% critics
After a failed suicide attempt, a former doctor with a horrific past lives confined to an iron lung in an isolated house. When a mysterious teenager becomes his caregiver, their tense relationship turns the home into a suffocating space of fear, guilt, and revenge.
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Details
- Original title
- Tras el cristal
- Years
- 1986
- Release date
- 1986-08-06
- Language
- Spanish
- Rated
- NC-17
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 62/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (114 votes)
About
You may like this if you can handle bleak, psychologically intense horror with heavy themes and a slow build, especially if Shrew's Nest or The Baby's Room worked for you; Not for you if abuse-related material or oppressive misery is a dealbreaker.
Pros: deeply unsettling atmosphere; strong lead performances; lingers in the mind | Cons: extremely disturbing subject matter; very slow pace; hard to recommend widely
Themes
- nurse
- war crimes
- sadomasochism
- serial killer
- iron lung
- disturbed
- war criminal
Cast & crew
Günter Meisner
as Klaus
David Sust
as Ángelo
Marisa Paredes
as Griselda
Gisèle Echevarría
as Rena
Imma Colomer Marcet
as Laborer
- JG
Josuè Guasch
as Singing Child
David Cuspinera
as Barracks Child
- RC
Ricardo Carcelero
as Child Ángelo
- AM
Alberto Manzano
as Gypsy Child
Directed by Agustí Villaronga