A little gem: Donald Pleasence is brilliant as a grumpy copper, London looks realistically grungy and best of all, a subhuman tube-dwelling cannibal rampages with the battle cry 'Mind the doors!' It doesn't always work, especially the long sequences of 'at home with the cannibals', but a witty script (and a nice Christopher Lee cameo) more than make up for it. Very funny last line too. (Possibly not meant to be).

While the opening song and titles seem to promise a wild ride, I had a real problem staying interested and awake. The film's pacing is incredibly uneven, and there are some terribly long and boring shots of basically nothing.

The best thing about the film is Donald Pleasence playing super jerk Inspector Calhoun. This is a guy who hates teabags in his tea, and seems to hate people just as much. Still, Pleasence's performance is nowhere near enough to make this film worth watching. Also, the poster is wonderfully bombastic, but nothing like whatever is going on with all the naked people happens in the film.

A fantastic British horror movie! Worth it for Donald Pleasence alone, who is clearly having the time of his life.

This is a terrible film despite the cool looking poster of Mick Fleetwood with a harem of women and a couple of dodgy looking dudes. So I guess it's just a poster of Fleetwood Mac, basically.

Donald Pleasence is wonderfully cranky in this uneven but worthy British horror flick about cannibalistic human deformities snatching people off the London Underground -- possibly for food or possibly for love? Some pacing issues, but there are also flourishes of brilliance (like one incredible long and mostly unbroken shot). Worth a look for genre fans seeking out flawed gems.

A wonderfully gruesome, blackly comic '70s British horror with Donald Pleasence on fine form and a wonderful but totally unnecessary cameo from Christopher Lee as an MI5 bigwig. Hugh Armstrong gives a wonderfully sympathetic performance as the cannibal living in London's Underground. Imagine The Texas Chainsaw Massacre if it had been made by the Carry On team.

A fantastic British horror movie! Worth it for Donald Pleasence alone, who is clearly having the time of his life.

Eat what you can
When you're buried underground,
Even if it's flesh.

Before Hooper, Craven, Landis and others there was Gary Sherman and this underrated, ahead of it's time, dirty little oddity, Death Line aka Raw Meat. It tells the story of a plague ridden cannibal living behind Russell Square underground station. Starring Donald Pleasence as a hilarious and erratic inspector. What more could you want?!

A little gem: Donald Pleasence is brilliant as a grumpy copper, London looks realistically grungy and best of all, a subhuman tube-dwelling cannibal rampages with the battle cry 'Mind the doors!' It doesn't always work, especially the long sequences of 'at home with the cannibals', but a witty script (and a nice Christopher Lee cameo) more than make up for it. Very funny last line too. (Possibly not meant to be).

This is a terrible film despite the cool looking poster of Mick Fleetwood with a harem of women and a couple of dodgy looking dudes. So I guess it's just a poster of Fleetwood Mac, basically.

Watching this under the title of "Raw Meat", Gary Sherman sure did conceive a pretty strange little British horror film. Donald Pleasence's performance really carries this film, along with some lively camerawork and urban settings, but it never seems to quite come together. The pacing and tone is sort of all over the place, never able to establish a rhythm and find its momentum. Nonetheless, the premise and Sherman's direction keeps things engaging and there were several moments the made me feel genuinely queasy and uncomfortable.

Silly and creepy cult film.