Devious little nasty nugget about a cannibal in the abandoned "rabbit warren" Underground tunnels who has started to surface into the public subways for walking human meat, those unfortunate souls who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. When a certain wealthy aristocrat, with a penchant for kink and sleaze, comes up missing, a couple who were the last to see him alive, Alex(David Ladd)and Patricia Wilson(Sharon Gurney)go to Inspector Calhoun(Donald Pleasence in a terrific role cracking wise with witty, very funny, acid-tongued crudely delivered dialogue, often aimed at his always-smiling detective Rogers, played by Norman Rossington as if he's just able to keep from bursting into laughter while often firing right back at his boss)hoping someone can help him. Patricia is a kind soul who found the man laid over the steps of the station in incredible fright. When she and Alex find a copper to assist the man, believing his either drunk or sick, they are shocked to find his body gone.
We find deep in the inner-workings of a darkly lit tunnels, the cannibal(Hugh Armstrong)with his lady-love(June Turner)on her deathbed as he weeps mournfully over her. In a long camera-shot, we see his lair as body parts lay throughout with partially eaten corpses hanging on the wall. When she dies, the cannibal, with nasty infected wounds showing signs of the septicemic plague he's contracted from rats, seeks out a mate and kidnaps Patricia! With Alex in a frenzied state of panic, he informs Calhoun and takes off into the dark tunnels seeking his lover no matter what harm might befall him. Meanwhile, Calhoun and Richardson themselves will pursue their suspect in a desperate search for the missing aristocrat's body hoping to stop the killing.
Delicious(pun intended)macabre tale with a demented sense of humor and creepy photography inside the killer's lair. Often also quite disgusting when showing the killer's unfinished lunch, not to mention, all the sores throughout his diseased body. The script gives Pleasence lots of sharply written barbs to fire at people with a nice touch regarding his tea, delivered to him also accompanying the bag still in it. The cannibal can only say one sentence, he repeats add nauseum, proclaiming to Patricia as he chases her in the tunnels when she's able to flee his grasp, "Mind the doors." Christopher Lee has a minor, but effective, cameo as a MI 5 agent who has told Calhoun to stay away from the case of the aristocrat(who seems to have been committing naughty deeds against his government)or else.
We find deep in the inner-workings of a darkly lit tunnels, the cannibal(Hugh Armstrong)with his lady-love(June Turner)on her deathbed as he weeps mournfully over her. In a long camera-shot, we see his lair as body parts lay throughout with partially eaten corpses hanging on the wall. When she dies, the cannibal, with nasty infected wounds showing signs of the septicemic plague he's contracted from rats, seeks out a mate and kidnaps Patricia! With Alex in a frenzied state of panic, he informs Calhoun and takes off into the dark tunnels seeking his lover no matter what harm might befall him. Meanwhile, Calhoun and Richardson themselves will pursue their suspect in a desperate search for the missing aristocrat's body hoping to stop the killing.
Delicious(pun intended)macabre tale with a demented sense of humor and creepy photography inside the killer's lair. Often also quite disgusting when showing the killer's unfinished lunch, not to mention, all the sores throughout his diseased body. The script gives Pleasence lots of sharply written barbs to fire at people with a nice touch regarding his tea, delivered to him also accompanying the bag still in it. The cannibal can only say one sentence, he repeats add nauseum, proclaiming to Patricia as he chases her in the tunnels when she's able to flee his grasp, "Mind the doors." Christopher Lee has a minor, but effective, cameo as a MI 5 agent who has told Calhoun to stay away from the case of the aristocrat(who seems to have been committing naughty deeds against his government)or else.