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END OF THE LINE

CF D: Maurice Devereaux w/ Ilona Elkin, Nicolas Wright. 95 min. Saturday, September 9, 9 PM CUMBERLAND 3; Monday, September 11, 3 PM CUMBERLAND 3 Rating: NNN out of 4

Next stop: death! In Devereaux's low-budget horror set mostly in subway cars and tunnels, a swarm of religious zealots are alerted by pager that it's the day of reckoning and must "save" people by stabbing them with their pointy-ended crucifixes.

It's a nastily clever premise, especially because the murderers are zombie-like in their devotion to their cult leader. The characters aren't given much depth, though, and a few details get brushed under the subway tracks.

Still, the script is no better or worse than most bigger-budget flicks in the same genre, and Devereaux and his designer (Jean-Philippe Hébert) create a lot from a little.

Once you've seen it, you'll think twice about entering the Bay subway station.