{"id":13898,"date":"2020-11-22T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13898"},"modified":"2020-11-21T17:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T22:40:30","slug":"death-line-1973-gary-sherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13898","title":{"rendered":"Death Line (1973, Gary Sherman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great doom-groove music on the opening credits by Wil Malone, who&#8217;s worked with Black Sabbath, Massive Attack and Opeth.  Sadly, it was all downhill from here, since the English don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s scary, and there&#8217;s as much pointless ritual and habit here as in a samurai movie.<\/p>\n<p>Couple of hippies discover a man passed-out in the subway.  Male Hippy doesn&#8217;t want to tell the cops but his girl talks him into it &#8211; he was right, since the cops (led by Donald Pleasance) are pricks.  But the passed-out man disappears, because he was kidnapped by the last of a tribe of nonverbal subterranean cannibals.  And obviously they&#8217;ve been feeding on subway riders for decades, but this time they got a minor government official, so the police take interest &#8211; I can&#8217;t tell if this was intentional social commentary or if I&#8217;m being generous.  Why was Christopher Lee in one scene?<\/p>\n<p><em>Cannibal vs. government man:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/deathline1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Christopher Lee vs. giant mustache:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/deathline2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great doom-groove music on the opening credits by Wil Malone, who&#8217;s worked with Black Sabbath, Massive Attack and Opeth. Sadly, it was all downhill from here, since the English don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s scary, and there&#8217;s as much pointless ritual and habit here as in a samurai movie. Couple of hippies discover a man passed-out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,955,952,959,892],"class_list":["post-13898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-cannibalism","tag-christopher-lee","tag-gary-sherman","tag-hippies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13926,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions\/13926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}