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Raw Meat / Death Line (1973) [Re-UP]

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Date: 17 Dec 2015 09:54:00
Raw Meat / Death Line (1973) [Re-UP]

Raw Meat (1973)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover | 01:27:28 | 3,84 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Horror

Director: Gary Sherman
Stars: Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd

There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are a young couple who get nearer to the horrors underground than they would wish.

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Beneath the streets of London, there lurks a diseased clan of inbred cannibals… striking their victims in deserted underground locations. They've managed to survive for years, but now the police are alerted to the strange goings on and it's only a matter of time before they are hunted down…

Raw Meat / Death Line (1973) [Re-UP]

Gary Sherman's Raw Meat (U.K. title: Death Line) is a remarkable debut for any director, but the American auteur gives it extra edge by making it unlike virtually any other British horror film of the early 1970s. With its grim mixture of shocking gore, flat-out comedy and heart-rending pathos it remains a singular achievement. Sherman wisely uses British horror icons Christopher Lee and Donald Pleasence, only to cast them as stuffy authority figures in a more modern horror film than the kind with which they were identified. Pleasence relishes a rare opportunity to play a comedic role. His police inspector is all bluff and bluster, bullying his subordinates and getting piss drunk at a bar in one of the film's many seemingly pointless character vignettes. Lee, seen in a brief cameo as an MI-5 operative who chastises Pleasence, gets little to do except be smug — but he has no difficulty in doing that, managing to wring some wry humor out of his condescending dialogue. ("Why don't you go back to planting pot on people?")

Raw Meat / Death Line (1973) [Re-UP]

That Sherman, the first time out the gate, is able to balance these different elements with so much grace is a testimony to his unsung talents. Unlike the Hammer or Amicus films of the period, Sherman doesn't shy away from the violence and bloodshed — indeed, it remains, in parts, one of the more nauseating horror pictures of the 1970s. If the film has a downfall it's in its focus on a bland young couple played by pretty but vacant Sharon Gurney and unlikable David Ladd. Their scenes definitely drag in relation to the rest of the film, and one can't help but breathe a sigh of relief when the film cuts back to Pleasence or the pathetic cannibal (a remarkable piece of mime from Hugh Armstrong). The film is hardly short on style, either, with a 7-minute tracking shot through the underground squalor standing out as a particularly ballsy piece of filmmaking. The film also benefits from Alex Thompson's slick cinematography and an excellent score by composers Jeremy Rose and Wil Mallone.

Raw Meat / Death Line (1973) [Re-UP]

Though flawed, Raw Meat is a definite cut above the standard English horror picture of the period and should prove strong enough to appeal to more hardened gorehounds, to whom the Hammer films mean nothing.
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Raw Meat / Death Line (1973) [Re-UP]

Deathline is a true classic, the kind of film that stays with you long after the final credits have rolled, and an entertaining 90 minutes, too. What more could you want from a movie? It's very true that there are few others on this website that fill all those criteria, although a number come close.

Deathline's success is due to a number of factors, not least of which is Donald Pleasance's truly unique performance. The man towers like a collossus above the proceedings, by turns likeable, nasty and bizarre. His Inspector Calhoun is a true one-off, and it's a shame we never saw him again. In the pantheon of crusty old policemen (see just about every other contemporary Brit horror for more details) he is the master.

Raw Meat / Death Line (1973) [Re-UP]

Deathline is also very violent (the spade in the head segment), extremely nasty (just about any scene featuring "the man"), funny (take another bow, Mr Pleasance), frightening, touching and off-the-wall (the two minute pointless inclusion of Christopher Lee for no good reason other than he was around that day). There's even some spectacular camerawork on display (take a trip with the special effects men as they seamlessly move from the underground charnel house to the bustling Underground station above).

Raw Meat / Death Line (1973) [Re-UP]

The film starts with some truly bonkers funky music accompanying a bowler hatted pervert's tour of the fleshpots of Soho. He makes his way down to Russell Square tube station, where he immediately gets kicked in the knackers by a non-too-receptive lady. Just when he thinks things can't get any worse, he gets approached by something else…

Raw Meat / Death Line (1973) [Re-UP]

Despite having little plot to speak of, very thing about the film is brilliant, but it has to be seen to be appreciated. Even the ending mixes uncompromising brutality with a strange pathos. There are no winners in Deathline, only survivors. If there is one film any fan of British horror should see, this is it.
Excerpt from 'British Horror Films' Review
Raw Meat / Death Line (1973) [Re-UP]

For those U.S. fans familiar with RAW MEAT through tenth-generation VHS bootlegs, MGM's DVD will be something of a revelation. Restored to its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio with anamorphic enhancement, the film's original Eastman colors are on attractive display here, and the source negative is in excellent shape. Some of the darker scenes show some minor grain, but at least these scenes are clearly visible. Some edge enhancement was noticeable in several scenes, but nothing too drastic. The mono audio track is fine, but it's a good thing that there's optional English subtitles, as some of English actors speak too fast or mumble (Pleasance included), so you might want to check back at what they're saying at times. Optional subtitles in Spanish and French are also included. MGM's new DVD master also restores some bloody violence not seen in the U.S. release print, so this is the fully uncut version for certain.
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