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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

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.

What in the hell did i just watch? and further more why in the hell are IMDb users giving this anything above a 2? This is by far the worst horror movie i have ever seen in my life, and thats saying something because i have seen some god awful horror flicks. Lets start this off nice and easy.

The Acting. The emotion was so forced and jaded it was ridiculous. There was nothing believable about it. THe movie made the actors in my high school plays look like Al Pacino or Marlon Brando. THey were terrible and should never be allowed to have roles in films ever again. PERIOD!

The Writing. Once again the kids in my creative writing class my senior year could write the pants off the fellows behind this movie. No emotion, simply childish writing. IT WAS SO UNBELIEVABLE I KAN NOT STRESS IT ENOUGH. I compare the script of this movie to a wanna be rebel fake nihilistic high school student, trys to do everything to be different even if that means being completely retarded. i mean for Christ sake they talked about muffins half the movie.

THE SPECIAL EFFECTS why are people raving about the gore and the "creatures"? the blood seriously looked as if it was bought at Party City. And when someone was cut they would throw the blood on the people. For instance a throat is slit, so blood explodes everywhere.

BUT SAYING ALL THIS, the movie is good for a comedy, a good movie to watch with a group of your mates and make fun of the entire night. Its worth it for the little gems, like that man who gets stabbed over and over again. And the crazy old woman who gets stabbed BY HER OWN MATE!

HIlarious

but terrible if it were to be taken seriously

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!

Horror movies can be fun, can be exciting or can be something to think about. This tries to check many boxes. And depending on how open you are and if you care for certain things (and also the fact you have to keep record and think for yourself and what certain things mean) ... it'll play out one way or the other for you.

So either you'll have a good experience watching this or you won't. The director himself says, you decide what it means, I won't tell you. Not that he doesn't have an opinion or hasn't layed out clues. But again, that's not everyone's cup of tea. So this is decent and has good horror moments, but the over the top acting (some may feel this is an exaggeration) will alienate some viewers ...

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.

Prior to "End of the Line," the only thing I'd seen by writer-director Maurice Devereaux was a satirical short on PMS, done in the style of a '50s educational film (look it up on YouTube). Needless to say, this guy is a versatile talent worth keeping an eye on. Like many low-budget, independent horror films, "Line" begins fairly awkward, with wobbly performances, questionable makeup effects, and bizarre camera choreography. But after a deliberate buildup followed by an incredibly chilling segue into cold-blooded violence, "End of the Line" goes off and running to its own rhythm and tune, with near-total disregard for political correctness and moral scrutiny. The plot wouldn't seem so intensely button-pushing if we hadn't been inundated (especially in the wake of 9/11) with a rash of films that failingly attempt to rationalize and justify contemptible actions (on both sides) in the midst of warfare and natural disaster; Devereaux's 'monsters' are members of an expansive (and apparently global) religious sect, led by a Jim Jones type foretelling the impending apocalypse. Armed with crucifix daggers, strong belief, and Sunday Smiles, these zealots are the stuff of nightmares (proving once again what George Romero established in "Night of the Living Dead"--what a zombie does to a person is nothing compared to what the human survivors do to themselves). Beginning on a stopped subway car (where the PA crackles with cryptic, incoherent messages) and progressing through the subterranean tunnels below, a disparate group of survivors attempt to find their way to safety while being stalked by the murderous sect. The location is one of "Line"'s key strengths: the dimly-lit, desolate tunnels provide a thick, claustrophobic sense of desperation and isolation that only ratchets up the terror of the situation. Similarly, the performances by a cast of Stateside unknowns improves considerably as the film progresses, to the point where the viewer aligns his own survival instinct with that of the characters, and the desire to see them make it out alive. But like Romero, Devereaux isn't content with Happy Endings, and leaves us on an admirably ambiguous note that would do Dante Aligheri proud. "End of the Line" is a triumph for the genre.

I just saw EOTL at the Palm Springs film festival, and I'm very pleased (the guy above would be also be pleased to know that this version was shortened to 95 minutes). It was the rare horror movie that did the fundamental thing right: made you care about the victims. Everyone, even the crazy cultists, was given layers and dimensions beyond surface stereotypes and caricatures (no token black-nerd-ditzy blonde-tough guy-final girl lineup here) This is also probably the only movie I've seen that's actually scary along with having graphic gore. The gore scenes themselves aren't scary, but they are intense, because they are happening to people that you've invested some emotion in. I'm also glad that the demon effects were used sparingly; Devereaux knows that real live crazy people can be much scarier. The atmosphere contributed greatly to this; I've always found scenes of people standing alone in those subway stations pretty creepy (best example: the scene with the Asian girl and the train. Those who've seen the movie will know what I'm talking about) The acting was top-notch across the board, my palms were actually sweating because I wanted at least most of the main cast to make it out alive. The special effects were not-surprisingly excellent; look for a nasty half-decapitation as a great example. Like I said before, it was good that the demons were rarely seen, but when they were, they were very well-done (aside from a few CGI ones, but they had to be in order to pull off certain stunts) Overall, I can give End of the Line the best praise for a horror movie: it does what it meant to do.

The story is nothing special or original, but at least it did not involve a creepy little child and a haunted attic.

For a horror movie, there was surprisingly little gore. Where this film really falls into mediocrity, though, is in the acting and and lack of scares. Only the tension at the beginning of the train stop is remotely thrilling.

I recommend potential viewers to skip this flick unless you expect laughably bad acting, clichéd characters, and very low production values, with no scares.

For an interesting and entertaining scare on a train, consider "Midnight Meat Train."

And I thought the Mormon missionaries were relentless! This movie takes place at night on a subway train where a crazed religious cult has decided that it's the "end of days" and starts killing everyone with crucifix daggers to "save their souls". It ends up being kind of a claustrophobic "Night of The Living Dead" knock-off, and quickly begs the question of why there would be so many members in a fringe cult group, and why they would waste so much time going after a handful of passengers on late night subway car. There is an interesting twist at the end based on strange and truly terrifying visions the heroine has been having, but they kind of fumble it.

This movie is definitely effective in places, but it suffers the typical problems of modern day horror movies. There is not enough character development before the killing,for instance, to make you care much for any of the characters, and the movie often tries to be shocking and outrageous simply for the sake of being shocking and outrageous. There's one pretty tasteless scene that does the Sharon Tate murder one better (and I don't mean the Tate murders, I mean the actual murder of Tate herself). On the other hand, there is some pretty clever black comedy like the way the cult members mindlessly chant, "God loves you," as they stab people to death (as the Manson Family reportedly did). And the filmmakers seem pretty horror literate, paying homage not only to classics like "Night of the Living Dead", but also much more obscure films like "Who Can Kill a Child?". But much like Jesus, this film is just alright with me.

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'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.

God, was I wrong. When I saw the DVD covers of End Of The Line I guessed it was about demons attacking people in the subways. What we have here is a film that makes you think about cults, religions and other extremities. The movie is only a few minutes rolling and I already jumped out of the settee and then you're in for a ride into what could be a story happened in the Dark Ages when the inquisition supposed to tell what's right or wrong. And if you weren't following them then you die easy as this. This one goes about an extreme religion who believes the Apocalypse is coming. What happens next is 90 minutes of frightening moments containing gore and blood. And some gore is in an explicit way especially the decapitation. And what the movie does is make you think as said before about the extremists walking this earth. And the twisted ending made you think what happens next. What a relief to see that it is still possible to bring a good old horror flick.

Stumbling upon the 2007 horror movie "End of the Line" by random chance in 2022, I immediately picked up the movie, as I liked the movie's cover right away. It was very reminiscent of the 1984 horror movie "C. H. U. D.".

Granted, I had never heard about this movie from writer and director Maurice Devereaux, before stumbling upon it here in 2022, so I didn't know what to except, nor did I know what I was in for here.

I was initially thrilled when I saw that the movie had Tim Rozon on the cast list, as I think he is an okay actor, and liked him a lot in the "Wynona Earp" series.

However, writer and director Maurice Devereaux didn't manage to deliver a wholesome horror experience with "End of the Line". Sure, if you are a newcomer to the genre, then you might get some thrill out of this particular 2007 movie. However, if you are a seasoned horror veteran such as myself, then this movie failed to deliver.

I was expecting a movie with the creatures, as shown on the cover, roaming about in the subways. Yeah, talk about being in for a disappointing surprise there. Instead, I was treated to cultists committing murder by the whim of a beeper message. This was by no means what I was expecting from the cover. Sure, the creatures do make a less than one minute appearance in the movie, just before the final curtain.

Visually then I wasn't impressed with what I saw in "End of the Line". The effects hardly brought any sense of lifting up an otherwise dead-end movie one bit.

This is definitely not a horror movie I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through "End of the Line", so you don't have to.

My rating of "End of the Line" lands on a two out of ten stars.

Just (and I mean literally, just) saw this at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was preceded by a really creepy first-person handicam short film (The Eyes of Edward James), which had me shaking even before End started.

Suffice it to say, the film did not disappoint. It helps not to know much about the movie, but the key plot points are: * Death & * The Subway

Canadian viewers will get a kick out of the TTC and Montreal Metro shots (and have a fun time taking public transit home), and pretty much anyone will be freaked out about taking the subway after watching it.

The only complaint I would make is it was about 30 minutes and a few characters too long. There was a bit too much characterisation and conversation, and it slowed the plot down - though I'm quick to add that it never went too long before a scary/exciting part picked up again. If this is going to see major release though, they'll definitely need to cut it - anything over 2h is already too much, and this movie definitely didn't need that extra stuff.

One final warning: It is exceedingly gory. I have not seen so much blood and graphic violence in a long time. And it'll scare you.

I recently saw this at the 2007 Palm Springs International Film Festival as part of their midnight Supercharged Cinema films. This was it's USA premiere of the latest offering from Canadian horror genre director and writer Maurice Devereaux. It's your typical horror-slasher film that takes several over the top chances that many viewers may find extremely offensive. This is the story of a young woman who after a particularly rough day at work as a nurse in the mental ward of a hospital gets on her usual subway ride home at night only to be met by a chain of events that lead to a night of horror. The evangelistic leader of a popular religious congregation sees the apocalyptic end of man and Armageddon is eminent so he orders his followers to save souls in his own unique way. The whole plot is so far fetched that it detracts from it being a truly scary movie. Lots of gore and mayhem. Teens and people who can't get enough of slasher type movies will probably like it. I'll give it a generous 6.0 out of 10 but I wouldn't recommend it to a general audience and it would be a strong R rating.