Four men out on a STAG NIGHT in New York prematurely exit an underground
train after the soon-to-be-best-man begins to hassle two women. Trapped
at a deserted station these six adults become the target of a gruesome
manhunt when a secret gang of cannibal dwellers, living in the tunnels
discovers them. Tensions will rise as they fight to make it through the
night with all their limbs attached.
Stag Night is a 2008 American horror film, written and directed by Peter A. Dowling. In New York, on the bachelor party of Mike (Kip Parude), he goes with
his troublemaker brother Tony (Breckin Meyer) and his friends Carl
(Scott Adkins) and Joe (Karl Geary) to a strip club; however Tony gets
in a fight with other costumers and the group is expelled by the
bouncers. Tony convinces Mike and his friends to take the subway and go
to another bar; in the wagon, they see the striper Michelle (Sarah
Barrand) and her friend Brita (Vinessa Shaw), and Carl makes a
corresponded move to Michelle. When Tony flirts with Brita, she becomes
upset and uses a spray against him. The train stops in a traffic light
in an abandoned station, and Brita forces the door and leaves the wagon
to breath, followed by the others. However the signal opens and they
are left behind in the station, Mike, Tony, Joe and Brita decide to
walk through the tunnel to the next station and seek help for Carl and
Michelle that prefer to stay alone dating in the station. When they
reach the next station, they witness a trio of brutal homeless men
killing a guard and they run through the tunnel trying to escape from
the deranged murderers in the beginning of their nightmarish night.
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| Stay on the train... |
Frankly this is a tired retread of a film. We've been down these
corridors before and the film adds nothing new. That would be fine if
the film had any connection to reality, which it doesn't. The film was
made in Sofia Bulgaria which looks nothing like New York. All of the
subway stations are these huge cavernous rooms covered in graffiti that
look unlike any I've ever seen in any location anywhere.
For a Direct-to-DVD horror flick it could have been much worse. Transplant this story to the woods, and
you've got "Wrong Turn". Transplant it to a nuclear California desert,
and you've got "The Hills Have Eyes". For those who prefer
slowburn suspense, this one may be a pass.
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| The film even put this guy to sleep. |
The look of the main cannibal is rather distracting. He looks just like fucking Rob Zombie. Whenever he appears I can't get it out of my mind that Rob Zombie is killing folks in the Subway. IN fact they all look like Zombie.
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| Rob Zombie is ready to ROCK..... |
One major black mark against Stag Night is the camera-work, it's of the
shaky jerky can't see anything variety which gets so annoying to watch
it's a wonder why filmmakers still continue to overuse this irritating
technique. Essentially
this is a film that lacks any kind of imagination. It steals from so
many other horrors yet fails to mold anything decent with its bounty. Stag Night is a very ordinary horror film that borrows all of it's
ideas from better films, while competent Stag Night is forgettable on
every level.
