Snapshots from the Tube.
It puts me in mind of a film I saw at The Scala during one of their epic all nighters (way back in the days when the Scala was a cinema and not a club) - AL and I watched Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Carrie and eventually a little-known film called On the Line or maybe Deathline.
Its about a couple of cannibals that are living underneath Russell Square tube - his wife has bubonic plague or something and he captures the last person off the last tube and kills them to feed them to her. He can't speak modern English apart from MIND THE GAP and stand clear of the doors, wailing through the empty tunnels.
The Scala used to be great if you missed the last tube home and there wasn't a night bus (these were much more scarce at this time) - on Saturday nights they would have films all night long - you could sit and drink beer until the light came up and the first tube started. The downside of this was that it was also used in exactly the same way by the homeless of Kings Cross (there were many fewer of these at this time also).
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