End of the Line (2007)

I didn't bother to check the spoiler box because I couldn't sit through the movie and didn't care how it ended.Actually, this low-budget exercise in gore and horror, starts off fairly promising. Some diverse passengers sit in a mostly empty subway trait that stops dead in the middle of a tunnel and is lighted by the blue cast of emergency lights. I was swept up in trying to figure out where the location was. We don't see any station signs. The subway stops are clean, the cars are modern and tidy and swift. The system is effective and only functional, not ornate. Those features ruled out New York and Moscow. And when one of the characters says, "You're naut going to do it," I had it pinned to some Canadian city.The milieu aside, the movie stinks in every respect. The story is senseless, people do idiotic things, there are bath tubs of blood all over, and the acting is no better than you'd see on the boards at some high school play in Linden, New Jersey. Plain awful.I won't try to describe what plot there is. I'll just let it go by saying it's as familiar to you as your home batterie de cuisine. You surely recognize the battered old pots and pans flung together in the cabinet, the skillets hung from the hooks. The movie relies heavily on the original "Night of the Living Dead," but one shot is lifted directly from Kubrick's "The Shining." Innumerable people are stabbed to death with daggers made out of crucifixes. One guy has his head chopped off on the screen -- well, half chopped off. The good guys are picked off one by one and so on. A woman in advanced pregnancy happily allows herself to be sliced to pieces and the bloody fetus drawn out of her womb.I don't know why some of us are attracted to violence that's presented so realistically on screen. If you're among them, this is your kind of movie.

Karen is a nurse at a psychiatric hospital whose been having nightmares of jump scares recently(and yeah, those do make a lot of appearances in this... but it does build a proper atmosphere, and is a very tense ride). On her way home, the subway train she's on stops suddenly, and she and a group of other regular people find themselves chased by a cult(who are genuinely and effectively creepy, throughout; they make this, in part, a zombie flick) out for blood, who claim that judgment day is coming(and that death is the better fate). Is this just a band of mad believers, or could they actually be right? This keeps it vague enough that you continue to ask yourself that question throughout, right up until the great ending. It goes into themes about faith(without it saying that it's completely good or bad), religious fanaticism(how far will they go?), hypocrisy, status and the like. This is somewhat exploitative(with some truly brutal gore, and extremely disturbing sequences, if these are moderate in amount), and it gets quite cheesy(the killers all use crosses that function as knives, and one of them, a middle-aged guy no less, wields a friggin' sword). It doesn't overstay its welcome, and keeps to a solid pace, and it gets going quickly whilst at the same time developing the characters, all of whom are sufficiently likable and credible(no one is really obnoxious, albeit one member of the murdering lot is truly despicable... but we love to hate him, and it really works). The FX vary, however most are excellent(a couple of designs and choices are questionable). This is at its best in the first 20 minutes or so, and if you find yourself not happy with the change after about that period of time, you might not like the rest of this. It does feel like the two portions of it don't completely fit together. The hour and a half do pass like nothing, and it has positive surprises along the way. Dialog tends to be fine, if there are a handful of lines that are... strange. Acting is so-so. There's a reason those on this cast aren't "names". There is some sexuality and a little strong language in this. I recommend this to fans of dark Gothic horror. 7/10

What a horribly acted no plot piece of trash waste of time. I would be willing to bet those that rated this movie as good are involved in the film. Other than a few hot girls in the movie it is not worth watching. The sound quality is low budget, the acting is low budget, the video quality is low budget.Those generic low budget horror movies for pre-teen kids are better than this piece of garbage.Honestly, do not waste your time. You would think they would have accidentally hired at least one good actor for this movie but nope they are all terrible.

I just watched this movie and I immediately knew it was going to be awesome when it made me scream like a little school girl in the first 5 minutes of the film. OUT LOUD! I am a huge horror buff and not much even makes me yelp! It was a pleasant surprise, as most of the crap my brother brings over for me to watch usually doesn't make much sense or is just too out there to enjoy. But End of the Line is a great Canadian horror flick. Who needs zombies when you have religious fanatics trying to save non-believers with a razor sharp crucifix, sending them to the Almighty!? Sounds corny, but why not? How many hard core religious followers would kill in the name of their God if they were told the Apocylpse was coming? Not too far fetched to believe. And stuck in a subway during the whole thing!? The artwork on the DVD cover was right, "does what Jaws did for the ocean". I'll probably poop if I am ever caught down in a subway system after dark in a big city after seeing this. If you like horror movies, give End of the Line a shot. The acting at times is a small amount cheesy, but the story is great, so are the monsters and many of the unexpected awesome scares that a true horror fan will appreciate!