Death Line

Death Line
US release poster
Directed by	Gary Sherman
Produced by	Paul Maslansky
Written by	Gary Sherman
Starring	Donald Pleasence Norman Rossington David Ladd Sharon Gurney Hugh Armstrong Christopher Lee
Music by	Wil Malone
Cinematography	Alex Thomson
Edited by	Geoffrey Foot
Release date	1972 (1972)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Death Line is a 1972 British horror film, distributed as Raw Meat in the United States. The film stars Donald Pleasence as Inspector Calhoun, and was directed by the American filmmaker Gary Sherman.

A family of cannibals, descended from Victorian railway workers who were buried alive during construction and never rescued, dwells in the disused lines of the London Underground tube network. The last surviving member of the family (Hugh Armstrong) frequently visits the neighboring Russell Square and Holborn stations to pick off passengers for food. After the cannibal kills an important politician, he is sought by a detective (Donald Pleasence) as well as an American college student and his English girlfriend, who were the last people to see the victim alive.

The disused British Museum tube station was mentioned in the film, but it is not the station portrayed as being the cannibal's home. The station in question is named "Museum" and is stated as being between Holborn and British Museum in a conversation between Inspectors Calhoun and Richardson. Signs in the abandoned station also state "Museum" as the name. Location filming took place at both Holborn and the now disused Aldwych station.

Ramsey Campbell, in a review cut from The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, but reprinted later, calls Death Line "an unusually bleak and harrowing horror film...very little in the film offers the audience any relief from the plight of the Man...The violence would be intolerable if it were not for the tragic dimensions of the film, but Hugh Armstrong's performance is one of the greatest and most moving in horror films".