[ZERO]
+ Worst Movie of the Decade
+ Worst Movie of the Year
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| This creepy poster for Maurice Devereaux's End of the Line teases the film's subway-set religious horror |
A group of people find themselves trapped in a subway train, as an apocalyptic event seems to rage on the ground above them, and religious madness breaks out.
In the course of the very first minutes of End of the Line it is crystal clear that this gory, low-budget religious horror flick is a highly dubious acquaintance. Still one feels ill prepared for just how completely insufferable and fundamentally gross the film turns out to be. - I am referring here not only to its also nauseating and often unrealistic special effects, but to its very construction.
End of the Line comes off as if it is a hateful and unreasonable attack against Christians and Christianity in general from a bitter former member of Jehovah's Witnesses or some other similarly apocalyptically centered Christian sect. The film takes place only in tunnels and semi-darkness and is filled to the brim with hatred, unmotivated murders, screaming, crying, and a nonsensical dialog that is relentlessly stuffed with expletives.
The acting is understandably varying here. The film seems to expect us to follow it and its characters closely, while in reality most will find themselves several miles apart from both.
End of the Line is written and directed by Maurice Devereaux (Lady of the Lake (1998)). It is an unbelievably bad movie, which seems based on some personal issues that should instead have resulted in many years of psychotherapy. It should be seen by no-one.
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Cost: Estimated 200k CA$, or approximately 160 $
Box office: Unknown
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[End of the Line premiered 28 April (England's Dead By Dawn Horror Film Festival) and runs 95 minutes. Shooting took place in Montreal, Quebec and in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from June - July 2005. The film was not released theatrically in the US. It played at 5 film festivals with the biggest being the Toronto International Film Festival and only had a regular theatrical release in its native Canada. No details about its gross are made public, - but writer-director-producer-editor Devereaux has not made a film - or any other credit - since, indicating that the film wasn't successful. 4,056 IMDb users have given End of the Line an incomprehensibly high 6/10 average rating.]
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