CANNIBAL CREEPER By: SASHA SLAUGHTER

Hey there horror fans who are addicted to our blog and search for "Sasha Slaughter naked" on the Internet (Ok, so I kinda stole that from Zane <3). Sasha Slaughter here with you, and no, I'm not naked...sorry to disappoint. Anyway! Today I'll be seducing your peepers with a review of the 1972 film Raw Meat.

It was written and directed by Gary Sherman. And here's something you may or may not know, the film was originally called Death Line but it was distributed as Raw Meat in the United States. And I've got one more nugget of info to share with you! This movie is a take on a gruesome urban legend from the British Isles. Legend has it that it was based on a family that was forced into cannibalism and liked it. They became insular (living on an island) because of their cannibalistic ways and because they were insular, they also became inbred as well. Ewwww!  Enough about inbred, let’s talk about the movie.

 In 1892 a group of workers got trapped under the streets of London after a tunnel cave in. They are forced to survive on their own. The company they were working for went bankrupt and couldn't afford to dig the bodies out, so they were abandoned. The survivors, four men and four women, were forced to live off of the flesh of their dead. And now that they have all died, the sole descendant of the survivors resurfaces to satisfy his appetite for the living.

James Manford, a respected politician is walking around town checking out various peep shows. He's at the train station on his way home when he tries to proposition a hooker. She gets upset that he wont pay her until she services him and kicks him in the nads and runs. Manford is trying to recover when he sees something and starts to panic.

 Later on Patricia and her American boyfriend Alex are getting off of the train when they find the politician on the stairs of the train station. Patricia insists that they help him and Alex believes the man is drunk and wants to leave him. They find a constable and tell him about the man on the stairs. Alex takes the constable to the check on the man but when they get there the man is gone.

Back at the station, Rogers and Calhoun are talking about the train station and how the tunnel caved in 1892 and the bodies were never recovered because the company went bankrupt and couldn't afford to dig them out. They notice a pattern of people going missing in the same train station as Manford and want to know more. Back at the tunnels, in the train station, a diseased riddled creeper is kneeling above his sick mate. He knows something is wrong so he takes Manford's body and slits his throat so she can drink his blood.

 In the train station Patricia is waiting for the next train with her suitcase when she decides to go back to Alex. As she is getting on the train to go back to Alex, the creepers mate dies and he freaks out and leaves the tunnels. He finds people in the station and they try to fight them off. The creeper splits a mans head open with a shovel and impales another with a broom handle. He drags the third man off to his home in the tunnels.

Calhoun and Rogers are called early in the morning and told about the murders in the train station. They arrive at the morgue and inspect the bodies of the two men attacked and killed. They are told that one is missing and that there is a possible fourth man because they recovered blood on the handle of the broom that didn't belong to either of the two victims. Calhoun decides to ask Alex to come back for further questioning about Manford and when he doesn't hear what he wants, he quickly dismisses him. One of the doctors from the morgue calls Calhoun shortly after Alex leaves to tell him that they are sure that there was a fourth man in the train station and that they tested his blood and found that the man has the plague and is very sick.

 Alex and Patricia are getting off a train after a date and Patricia leaves her books on the train. Alex runs into the train to get them when the doors close. She tells him that she will meet him at home. As she starts to leave the station the creeper comes up behind her and drags her into the tunnels. When Alex returns home to an empty apartment, he immediately knows that something is wrong.

Patricia wakes up and realizes she is locked away in a room. She sees rats all around her and starts screaming. The creeper comes into the room and kills and bites some of the rats while Patricia hides under a table. He drags her out and lays her on a make shift bed. He tries to calm her down and hug her when she hits him and then runs away.

Meanwhile back at the train station Alex gets off of the train and decides to explore the tunnels in search of Patricia. He eventually finds her and tries to talk to her and touch her face but she keeps slapping his hands away and screaming. He gets frustrated that she won't cooperate so he rips her shirt (brief boob shot alert!!) and she starts to scream. The creeper runs away and Alex hears Patricia's screams and calls out to her. She keep calling for him to help her and he finds her laying on the ground. He goes to help her up when the creeper runs toward him and...

And then????? If you'd like to find that out, then mosey on over to Netflix and watch Raw Meat. I'm not really sure what to think of this movie. It was definitely strange. It was supposed to be gory, scary, and violent...but I didn't see much of that at all. The movie took forever to get even remotely interesting.

The first few minutes of the movie was some guy walking around looking into the camera while some cheesy porno music played. It sort of seemed irrelevant to the movie a little. In fact there where a few scenes that I thought were kind of that way but, what do I know?

There was some blood and a little gore, but I expected more. They made it sound a lot gorier in the description of the movie. There was a part in the tunnels where they showed a few bodies in various stages of decomposition, which I thought was cool. But there was also a part in the tunnels where they panned around the room for 10 minutes and all you heard was dripping water and what sounded like a heart beat. That was sort of annoying.

 And the creeper was supposed to be a descendant of cannibals, well I really didn't see him eat anyone. I was sitting there thinking EAT SOMEONE ALREADY!! He had a bunch of dead bodies in his little tunnel home thinger, but it never really showed him eating anyone. He killed a few people, but I was waiting for him to eat them. I was sort of disappointed by the cannibal guy.

He acted too civilized to be believable (He lit lanterns and cried). He was supposed to have been raised in the tunnels and I was kind of expecting someone a little more dumb. He couldn't talk and he did look really gross. They did an exceptional job on special effects of the sores and disease on the cannibals face. But that was best part about him, the way he looked. He was a drooling, disease infested freak...that didn't eat anyone. BOO!!

The best part of the movie was inspector Calhoun. He was a riot!! He was always bitching about wanting tea and when he got it he'd dig the tea bag out of his cup with a dart. It was too funny! He was really sarcastic and cynical and when he swore at someone, he whispered it. That made me laugh. Overall I'd give Raw Meat a 2.5 out of 5. I was gonna give it a 2, but that inspector guy made me giggle, so I bumped up the score a little.

There was some cussing (but the guy whispered when he swore, which was funny) and an incredibly brief boob shot. Nothing special really. I doubt I'd watch this movie again. So now that I'm done here, you can go and see what Zane's got going on in his part of the world. I'm almost sure it might involve boobs or dingus, since I guess we need more of that...=). Thanks for stopping by Dead End Horror.

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