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If you like your tunnel-dwelling cannibals all distraught and sobbing, Raw Meat might be for you. Donald Pleasence stars as a quirky detective trying to solve a missing person case that leads to an even bigger fish. Turns out there are inbreds living in the London subway tunnels, and oh deary my, they like to eat people. The film spends fully half its time on the last-surviving pair of cannibals, the spawn of tunnel workers cut off from the world after a cave-in many decades ago. There’s not much mystery to the tale, and you’re forced so frequently and so bluntly to feel sorry for the tunnel dwellers, that you begin to resent it. Leave it to the Brits to give subterranean flesh eaters all the sizzle of a Lifetime movie. Christopher Lee’s name appears at the front of the film, but he’s only in one scene. Directed by Gary Sherman (Dead & Buried, Poltergeist III).