End of the Line

OMG, I watched this movie because of all the good reviews. Are you guys kidding me? How could you give this anymore than one star? I mean, really? Did you swap some of those little white pills before you wrote those reviews? If so, what the hell was in them? Here's the deal. First it's cheaply made and could have some good thrills if the story bothered to make any sense and it wasn't so darn predictable. Also, I'm tired of these whacko film makers dragging Christians into their cultist films. If you look at all the crazy cults (many of which the Hollywood types subscribe) they are all new age cults. Never has a Christian church (even the whacko ones) ever made their members commit murder or suicide. The morons that wrote this obviously didn't bother to do some basic research. According to the story the Apocalypse is among us and the Christian whacko cult is killing every non-member to save their souls because the devil will rise them up as demons. I have a novel idea, how about at least reading the book of Apocalypse in the bible before doing a movie about it? If they bothered to spend five-minutes reading the very text of which their film is based, then they would have known that it's not the devil that rises the dead but God, and he does it so they can be judged. Nowhere are any of the dead ever risen as demons. For argument sake, lets say the writer was clever and the movie is based on more of a comic book universe with a different bible and different set of rules. Quite honestly I know the film makers aren't' that clever because I saw their piece of crap of a film, but hey, let's give them the benefit of the doubt. So, at the end demons arise from the dead but I thought I saw one climb out of a dead Christian cult body. So, what the heck? Were the Christian cultists the ones who weren't saved or did the demons come from the people they killed? You never know because the film doesn't make it clear. Overall, the movie sucked. Regardless, I'm really sick of theses film makers portraying Christianity and the bible so inaccurately that those that aren't Christian tend to think that these are really our beliefs.

This movie is so thought through, and so beautifully written, directed and edited, that you simply cannot watch it through, without ever jerking your whole body in fear, at least once. It has every scare element in it, and they all work to their very best. The acting and the directing was extremely well done, considering this being a very low budget movie. Only one actor (in my opinion) didn't act above an eight out of ten, the rest did their job so well, it almost seemed like a documentary of real people. The movie itself is also very affective. I'm, for one, glad that we don't have any subways in my city, I'm not gonna go down there, any time soon, and I'm sure as hell not gonna open, if Jehova's witnesses come knocking at my door, within the next few days. Any face-to-face contact with any Christians in the near future, is out of the question. You'd see me running away from them, before I'd stop up and chat with them a bit. Especially if they were holding a big silver-ish cross! Be sure to have visited the toilet, before watching this movie. Three reasons: 1: You may wet yourself if you don't! 2: You don't wanna miss one second of this movie. 2: You are not gonna dare leaving the room, for a short while!!! All in all, this movie is an almost-masterpiece. The full story in itself, is well made, and the first 20 minutes are 20 minutes of masterpieceness, but the rest of the movie, isn't containing a whole lost of those things, that made the first 20 minutes a masterpiece, so therefore the judgment, almost-masterpiece. Don't get me wrong though, the movie is excellent, from the beginning to the end. This is one and a half hour, you simply do NOT wanna miss out on.

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.

Well, Reviews here are all raving which always makes me very cautious but "End of the line" definitely is not a stinker. To put a major spoiler ahead... If you throw the basic idea of "Believers", the creepy subway setting of "Midnight meat train" and some maniac killer cult plus some demon creatures in a blender you are sure to get very close to this movie. Most of "End of the line" is build on slow suspense starting with some mysterious suicides and hallucinations, then a bunch of people getting stranded in a stopped subway with some lunatic Armageddon cult and of course then everybody running from the nice Christians trying to save their souls with some pretty ugly crucifix-daggers. The setting in the dark subway tunnels works fine, the cult and its belief are unveiled slowly and for my taste way overacted and the gore is minimal, yet this is far more a horror movie than "Believers". And here comes the little problem... the effects are bad! Someone here stated that the FX are way better than in "Midnight meat train" which to me was visually stunning while this one has bad blood splatter (although no fake CGI like in MMT) and finally some really bad creature Effects. I liked the movie for its slow pacing and the cold dark realization in the end. But compared to "Believers" this one falls flat because of the fake acting of the cult members and the cheesy creature FX in the finale. This moment of realization should be the ultimate horror of "everything you know is wrong" and is destroyed by some ridiculous demons that look like in a theater play with red light bulbs in their eyes. So really... whoever compares the obviously tight budget FX of "End of the line" with Kitamuras impressive gore FX and high class cinematography in Midnight Meat train must be high. The movie is way too serious for such trashy acting and FX and suffers from an equally cheesy and semi-funny feeling like Maurice Devereaux' previous movie "Slashers". I have seen far worse but "End of the line" barely manages to reach an average level.

I really want to see what Maurice Devereaux will come up with in the future. He's got a lot of great ideas in this film and I'd like to see what he's capable of with a good set of actors and a decent budget. I really enjoyed this; it's got so much heart and does all the right things but, as it stands, it falls a bit short of its potential. It's a great low-budget horror film but it tries to be more than that and doesn't quite make it. The storyline and plot are both excellent and, while not wholly original, are miles ahead of the cookie cutter garbage that passes for "horror" these days. This is definitely a "horror" film in every sense of the word - plenty of scares, a supernatural undercurrent, impending doom and a strong religious theme. A special note should be given to the atmosphere in this film. Even with low production values, the director created an apocalyptic world that felt like it was closing in on you. The results are pretty horrifying. Basically, a group of people on a late night subway train find themselves stranded when the power goes out. As the passengers wait, a prominent cult leader contacts his followers and tells them that the rapture is imminent. He orders them to "save" (translation: kill with crucifix daggers and sabres) all the non-believers around them. Many cultists are on the train and begin slaying people but a group of passengers manage to get away and find refuge in a nearby service point. Cell phones, radios and TVs are all of no use and we find out later that the cult leader has taken over a TV station and is broadcasting the mayhem going on in the city and around the world. From the start there are scenes that are designed to make you jump and lots of strange occurrences that begin to make sense as the movie progresses. Unless you're really perceptive, I doubt you'll get everything on a first viewing, probably because you'll be busy trying not to sh!t your pants during the first 15 minutes. All this mystery would be fine if this was a more straightforward movie but I still had questions after watching it a second time. Not major questions just little things that nag me as I write this review. The ending was good, though, and I think I got it. The director did say that he wanted to leave it open so that people would discuss the movie and he definitely succeeded. If you can put up with the amateur acting and are willing to invest some thought into it, this is a great little horror movie.

I'm a sucker for horror movies and watch about every one I can get near of. That usually leads to a lot of bad movie-watching. So I consider myself fairly educated in the ways of horror movies. This movie was such a surprise to me. I had expected the typical people-going-crazy formula, but I found that there was more than that. It was interesting because of the religious reason for the craziness. I have a degree in religious studies and I found this formula very accurate. Another great thing about this movie is that you feel sympathy with all the "good" characters and really hope that everyone gets out alive. Even through we all know that this rarely happens in horror movies. The movie's atmosphere makes the movie work very well. No, it's not the world's greatest script and the direction is surely not perfect, men it works and is entertaining until the very end. I really recommend this film to every horror fan.

I was lucky enough to see the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. I usually don't go for this genre of movie, but I haven't had this much fun at the movies in years. Very graphic, gory, and funny. This was a tongue-in-cheek commentary on right wing fundamentalism (i.e. puts the fun back into fundamentalism). Hopefully my favorite part that alludes to the holy trinity does not get edited out of the commercial release. Definitely a movie in the tradition of Halloween, Dawn of the Dead and the like. This was an ultra-low budget movie, but you would never know it other than the fact that it had little known actors. The acting was very good and the directing and editing was excellent. Special effects were great. I'll never ride the subway again.

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!

Some dumb-as-dirt characters get trapped in a subway and run from religious fanatics. There are way too many cheap, annoying jump scares early on. The acting is almost uniformly terrible; there are some truly abhorrent performances in this one. The religious dialogue is amongst the worst in cinematic history. Not one interesting statement made at any point. This has so many obnoxious, mind-numbingly stupid moments that I felt like throwing a brick thru my television screen. This was god-awful, worthless garbage of the lowest order. Give me a Japanese ghost girl film any day of the week over this nonsense. As just one example, most people will criticize the release of "Ju On 3" (2014) because it's another Japanese horror film with a ghost girl, but that film is way, way, way, way better than "End of the Line" (2007).

I can't understand how this "movie" gets above a 1 rating on IMDb. I put "movie" in quotes because End Of The Line doesn't even feel like a movie, but more like a video some high school kids put together as a project that would eventually get a D from their teacher. Poorly acted, poorly shot, horribly scripted (if there even was one) - this thing just plain stinks on every level. Please, don't make the same mistake I made wasting valuable time I could have been doing far more constructive things... Avoid this one at all costs. Please.