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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, continue to dwell in the disused lines of the London Underground tube network. The last member of the family frequently visits the neighbouring Russell Square and Holborn stations to pick off passengers for food, then takes them back to the gruesome 'pantry' at an incomplete station. When the cannibal kidnaps and kills an important politician, he is hunted by a detective as well as an American college student and his English girlfriend who were the last to see the victim in the tube station. Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington star as the investigating police officers. At the climax, when finally cornered and with his wife and the last of his family members dead from disease, the cannibal screams a corrupted form of "Mind the doors!", having picked it up parrot-fashion from the guards on the Underground trains.
Guilty of no crime
Not enough yet too much time
I'm burning in this hell
Plans to buy and dreams to sell
Sitting by myself
Living life and loving life
But something bothers me
What to do, I can't believe
I'm bored, life, it's not so fair
Nothing here and nothing there
I'm waiting constantly
It's not the way life's meant to be
Boredom starts to set
I try so hard but it's all I get
Keep waiting all the time
I think I've reached the end of the line