Raw Meat (1972)

Dir: Gary Sherman

Mind the doors! This one's a gory old Brit-horror about a cannibal ghoul living in the London Underground system. The ever-wonderful Donald Pleasance excels himself with a star turn as a no-nonsense (or all-nonsense, depending on how you look at it) cockney copper hot on the cannibal's sticky trail. This fairly straightforward police/slasher story is made hugely enjoyable thanks to some great acting, an unusual setting, eerie photography and one almighty streak of black humour (Pleasance is side-splitting). Also it's super-cool to see the shot-on-location footage of early-70s London in all its sleazy, sordid splendour. Watching "Raw Meat" makes you wonder why any idiot would've put up money for a big piece of poo like (the verrrrry similarly themed) "Creep" 20+ years later. This one's just fine as it is, thanks. An underrated diamond. ***