Stag Night (2008) User Reviews (45)

No Way Out

[claudio_carvalho · 5/10 · 4 July 2009]

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.

The gore "Stag Night" is a rip-off of "Creep" with Franka Potente, i.e., a claustrophobic plot with people trapped in the subway tunnels. The acting and make-up are excellent, but the camera work is terrible in the action scenes. The flawed screenplay uses many clichés of the genre and Brita is indeed the only character that takes reasonable attitudes in a distressed situation of panic. This movie is not totally bad and entertains, but could be better and better. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Fuga Sobre Trilhos" ("Run on the Rails")

poor locations and cliché script sink the film

[dbborroughs · 4/10 · 11 October 2009]

Group of men on a bar hopping bachelor party take the subway to go to the next stop. When the car stalls at an abandoned subway station the men, along with a couple of girls they met on the train, get out. Unfortunately the train leaves without them. Soon they find themselves being hunted by the cannibalistic tunnel dwellers.

What is it about the subway that inspires filmmakers to imagine that they are haunted by flesh eating people? There has been any number of stories over the years, from Creep to Midnight Meat Train to lord knows what else. Now comes Stag Night and I'm left to wonder if there is any life left in the mini-genre.

Frankly this is a tired retread of a film. We've been down this 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. Nothing feels real.

Its not a bad film, but it should have been better. Clearly shooting in Sophia ruined any chance that the filmmakers could have created any sense of claustrophobia (and did I mention everything is much too well lit for abandoned tunnels). The cast is game, the script is kind of serviceable in a clichéd sort of way but the locations and some other technical aspects sink what would have been solid run of the mill film.

I'd take a pass.

Another disappointment

[aqos-1 · 4/10 · 13 October 2009]

Another failed horror movie. The story has been told many times in many ways. City folk find themselves in the world of the people that live under public transit. The first group they come to is uncivilized with no discernible speech, but they're well dressed against the cold. Of course they live off of human flesh, oddly in a trailer underground with electricity and TV. The bad guys have hand to hand battle weaponry of all shapes and sizes as well as pet dogs. This movie relied on the "lets shake the camera" method for shooting fight scenes. Naturally when they are being pursued, no one has the good sense to be quiet. They draw as much attention to themselves as possible, it seems. The city goers do some damage of their own, but mostly it damaged my hope that anyone knows how to make a good horror movie anymore.

Attack of the camera man with Parkinson's disease

[phantasmda · 3/10 · 23 June 2010]

This has to be the strangest horror film I've ever seen...I'll list the basics:

Decent production values: Check Decent enough cast and not bad acting: Check Dark and atmospheric: Check Creepy and plenty of jumps: Check Great gore effects and plenty of blood: Check Decent soundtrack: Check

All of the elements to make a good horror film for even the most demanding horror fans...So why on earth did the director feel the need to have his camera man shake the camera from side to side ALL THE WAY through the film???

It was nauseating, annoying, difficult to make out what was going on for most of the time. The action and horror scenes were extremely difficult to concentrate on...Underneath this was a very good horror film but it was totally ruined by the worst camera work I have ever seen in a film.

I'll give it a 3 purely for what lies underneath but it loses 5 stars for the camera work...Hugely disappointing...Watch Creep instead, it's no classic but it holds the same premise and more importantly, you can see what's going on.

Under Achiever

[kosmasp · 4/10 · 28 June 2010]

There are some lines at the beginning of the movie (after the "initial" shock scene that is), that try to convince that this movie has a real background. Of course as with many other horror movies, this does not stay in our reality and has quite some major flaws in it's story telling. You just get enough background information on some of the guys (their relationship to each other), to know who is who. Beyond that there is nothing to really distinguish them (apart from the character that Breckin Meyers portrays, but never really achieves anything with, except from his first scenes).

Actually, if you didn't know Breckin Meyer (which could be the case), you might be excused to not even really notice him and be completely irritated by his action(s) later as the movie progresses.

Storytelling and character aren't really the backbones of this movie, but it has some nice/decent horror moments and some pretty good gore effects. Unfortunately some scenes are edited/shot as if the cameraman/editor had been under "influence". I'm not a big fan of the "shake the camera" and it will look frightening theory. Others might be, not me though.

Decent, but nothing you really need to watch, unless you are into this sort of genre pictures (and even then there are so many other movies out there)

D class

[dusan-22 · 3/10 · 20 October 2009]

Already seen many times, predictable and without any imagination. The only reason it got 3 out of 10 from me is because of the pretty good acting and few scary scenes which I got to mention as a true horror fan. So, if you are the one, you would maybe like to see how is director of this film mixing movies "Creep" and "Hills have eyes" while trying to take the best out of them but without success in pretty cheep and stereotypic way. Also, most of the scenes were made in the dark but director insists on their speed which is pretty irritating as you see only blurry shadows instead of the picture. All in all, pretty bad and pretty generous rate from my side.

Familiar can still be fun

[drownsoda90 · 6/10 · 3 November 2012]

Think "Wrong Turn" set in subterranean Manhattan.

"Stag Night" follows a group of friends on a subway home from a bachelor party in NYC. After exiting their train too early at an abandoned station, the group along with two female strippers from the party look for a means of exit. Unfortunately for them, they've walked off the train and straight into the stomping grounds of a clan of subterranean cannibals. It's gonna be a long night.

"Stag Night" works with the cannibal killer formula that's been done for the past three decades, but, like the 1972 film "Raw Meat" (also known as "Death Line" in the UK), this one is set in abandoned subway tunnels. We saw a similar scenario in the 2004 flick "Creep" with Franka Potente, where she struggles to survive against a mad cannibal in London's subways. There's something eerie about being underground in the first place because it adds an increased sense of helplessness; you've literally got the weight of the earth against you, and means of escape are few and far between. Even creepier is the fact that these abandoned subway tunnels and platforms do actually exist far beneath the streets of New York and London, and the notion that people could be inhabiting these dark, old places is one that is extremely eerie.

This film makes ample use of its setting, which is ultimately the hook, line and sinker for this one. 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". It's familiar, yes, but who said familiar cannot be fun? This is an extremely violent film, so modern gorehounds will get their money's worth here. For those who prefer slowburn suspense, this one may be a pass. I like both ends of the spectrum, and this one delivers on action. I've read some complaints about the cinematography in the film and the shaky camera-work, which are understandable complaints, but I will say that it does give the film a visceral texture. I could, however, have down without the corny slow-motion shots during scenes of high drama though.

The production quality is actually really great, and the subterranean atmosphere is well-used. The villains in the film are also surprisingly scary looking, and, where films like the aforementioned "Raw Meat" gave a humanity to the villains, this film rather presents them as outright murderous animals. Acting-wise, there's a solid cast here that make up the core characters. Kip Pardue and Breckin Meyer are both pleasures to watch, and Vinessa Shaw (you may recognize her from "The Hills Have Eyes" remake or Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut"— or, if you're a '90s kid, Disney's "Hocus Pocus") plays a sassy Columbia student by day and stripper by night. There is some particularly funny dialogue between her and Meyer, that is, until things get serious.

I felt the ending of the film was abrupt and the last-second surprise was a "c'mon" moment for me, but I can forgive it since I was glued to the screen for the 80 minutes prior. Standout scene: the group's first sighting of the killers as they dismember a security guard, and the train track beheading.

Overall, "Stag Night" is all in good fun. It's not high art, but I tuned into it right at the beginning around 1am, and I was taken by it enough that I finished it to the end. Genre fans will likely enjoy it, while most others will not. As far as indie horror goes, this one is fairly high up there. 6/10.

Decent acting, Bad camera work, Poor script

[crazycow-843-404456 · 5/10 · 2 April 2011]

First off, let me say i love my horror films.

The story is nothing special, 6 people get them selves stuck in an underground train yard, they are confronted by a group of crazy cannibals, Can they survive? Maybe, Can we survive the bad camera work and sub par direction of the movie? maybe...

All around the acting was decent, all the actors held up there own in this movie, i have to say they actually did a good job with the script they had to work with.

Let me get to the camera work, it was bad, really bad for most part of the movie, i think i got a bit of a headache after watching the movie.

This is not a bad movie, but it's not good either, it's watchable (if u can stomach the camera views that the director chooses to use), The death scenes were OK, the actors did well, the only problem is when a movie of any genre takes it self seriously, then i would expect some kind of logic from the script, there was little logic here, but I've seen worst. deducting 3 points for the camera work and 2 for the poor script. 5/10

The last scene startled me!

[politehere · 6/10 · 6 August 2010]

This movie is quite all right for its kind (Creep, The Midnight Meat Train etc). It's gorgeously shot and you can actually "feel" the action and all those fast-moving running scenes and bloody fights add to the action. The film is barely scary if you have already seen movies of this kind. The only thing that distinguishes this film from others is that here you're not dealing with one or two savage creatures but many.

The characters, their dialog lines and their reactions are quite natural and the music score fits the scenes perfectly well. If you decide to go watch this film, be prepared to see a lot of repetitive actions; running in endless dark tunnels while being followed by a horde of savage creatures. The savage men are believable at least they don't look like monsters.

The characters are not well developed but you can get a glimpse into their real selves through some of their actions like sacrificing themselves for the sake of others. At certain places in the film (especially towards the end) the film desperately tries to get you sympathize with the dying characters and feel their pain through the background music, because in these kinds of movies we rarely care if any of the characters dies due to the fact that character development is absent from a lot of horror movies and this one is no exception.

The only "effective" scenes in the movie are those where the victims look into the eyes of their killers for a few seconds before they die a slow death. The movie as a whole is not scary, but the last scene startled me. They should've used more of this "startling" technique throughout the film instead of showing the creatures approaching their victims from miles away which made the film very predictable, although the ending was not a cliché and that's what I liked most about this film.

Breckin Meyer, i don't know about this choice

[justingibson5 · 1/10 · 7 September 2014]

Breckin Meyer definitely didn't seem to fit the role of his character in this movie. Breckin always plays a goody two shoes nice guy in his movies. It's rare that you see this guy in horror movies, never mind the fact that he plays the d*bag in this movie. It just didn't seem like he fit the role of a d*bag. I was disappointed with the character choice in this. Kip Pardue should have played the d*bag. It would have made more sense. And no doubt, I bet Breckin Meyer was the top billed actor in this movie anyway. This movie wasn't worth my time, I wouldn't suggest that anyone should watch this movie. This is just another B-rated horror movie in which the payroll probably exceeded the profits.

Subway Tunnel Cannibals!! (imdb won't let me shout but I want to.)

[oneguyrambling · 24 September 2011]

I never intended to watch Stag night – not this one anyway. I read on IMDb about a British film that was more or less a wannabe Shaun of the Dead entitled 'Stag Night of the Dead'. It was supposed to be reasonably amusing and with the action transpiring on a Stag Night you can't help but guess that a certain number of strippers might've been involved… I wasn't actively hunting SNotD but as things tend to do the title lodged itself in my subconscious. A few weeks later at the video shop I spy the cover for Stag Night and my mind does a quick double-take; was that supposed to be good and if so why?, as it was on the weekly shelf I threw caution to the wind and slapped down the $1 required to borrow Stag Night for an entire 7 day period.

Stag Night has no 'of the dead', no laughs and only a brief moment of nudity… But it isn't terrible.

Here's why; Predictably enough the movie is set during a Stag Night. Not a glamorous or large scale affair, just four guys having some beers in the city. When we meet the four guys they are being kicked out of a strip club and discussing whether to call it a night or kick on.

Kicking on wins.

Shortly after they are aboard the subway heading to the next destination with two of the strippers from the club who are done for the night. After some obnoxiousness from one of the quartet leads to mace being released, a door is forced open (somehow) and all 6 exit the train in a dark section of subway tunnel at 4 AM.

Let's fast forward only a few minutes: SUBWAY TUNNEL CANNIBALS!!! Yep it's that kinda film. The ensuing hour has the usual chaos, stupid decisions and unlikely events as the 6 mostly unlikable anti-heroes stumble about in the dark.

There is liberal use of F-Bombs even well before the Rob Zombie looking cannibals show up to slice and dice. The film has one good kill scene that is more entertaining than it is inexplicable – and it is quite inexplicable – and an hour of running from bad guys in a film most aptly described as Mimic Vs Wrong Turn.

I didn't hate Stag Night. It's just too reminiscent of so many other better movies to stand out from the pack. I like the fact that they played it straight and never winked to camera or made things too unbelievable… what am I saying? SUBWAY TUNNEL CANNIBALS!!! I'd like that last remark stricken from the record.

Final Rating – 5.5 / 10. If you want lotsa gore and minimal thought all wrapped up in a familiar package Stag Night isn't bad, how good Stag Night of the Dead is remains to be seen.

One last thing: How many movies feature monsters/killers or creatures that have apparently been prying their deadly trade for some time without anyone ever realising. Fine I can believe that they have a 100% kill rate once they target their prey, as unrealistic as that is. But no-one ever seems to ask about the missing or looks too hard into things.

And when cops do they are invariably killed… but who looks for them? (I know, I know. Just a movie.)

Oldschool, but new!

[skin666 · 8/10 · 8 October 2009]

I seriously don't know why people didn't like this movie that much. I have seen a bunch of these new horror movies and I can honestly say that 90% of them isn't even worth mentioning. However this flick caught me from the first frame!

If you pay attention, you can notice that this movie has some old school intro music. I loved that it reminded me of the good old horror movies in the 80's when people actually took the time to score some tunes for the movie like in Halloween and Precinct 13 etc. The film feel was also like in the 80's, not all digital, sharp and contrasted like the new movies, however the makers added some modern camera movement which made this even spookier.

I gave this movie an 8, although it's wort more in my opinion but unfortunately I've already seen a movie with a few similarities so I have to stay realistic.

Anyway, definitely a horror worth mentioning in these unfertile times of the cinema industry.

homo not sapiens

[boccaccio6 · 6/10 · 1 October 2009]

Well, I am not sure that what I am going to say may contain spoilers. Up to you to decide. Undoubtedly well crafted movie; a previous reviewer found camera work messy in action scenes, but I think it is deliberate. The whole story is tuned to the unbearable stupidity of these people who get trapped in NY Underground. They understand nothing of the situation and they take the wrong decisions all along till the end. It is the saga of the mistake, of the inappropriate behavior. Sure they stepped on a strange reality, sure they know nothing about horror films. This is not a fault. But I guess from their asinine stubbornness that all of them wasted school years drinking and flirting, with no knowledge of history, anthropology or human sciences whatsoever. All this comes up to a simple suggestion: from the very first scenes ask yourself who are the bad guys, and when blood runs be sure you support the right team. You will enjoy it.

Everyone dies because they are morons

[gustheaffen · 1/10 · 24 August 2019]

Rule one don't get off a subway when you could just move to another car. Rule two don't separate when you are stuck in a filthy underground dark tunnel system. Rule three - when you see a cop killed circle back and get his gun, walker talkie etc. And if the cop was there at the vending machine the way out is right there too! Stupid movie. Annoying characters - glad they all died.

don't you just hate those killer hobos....

[MLDinTN · 3/10 · 15 January 2012]

that's what the people in this movie are thinking. This is a below average gory, chase, killer, movie with psycho hobos instead of monsters. It's about 6 people whom get stuck in the subway tunnels of New York City. All they have to do is walk to the next station, but that's easier said than done when you run into 3 crazed hobos. They see the hobos kill with no mercy and even find their way to the hobos hideout. There we get a dose of even more gore as the hobos bring back 2 of their friends they already killed. What's silly is these people are able to run in the tunnels but yet seem to be going in circles? Are the subway stations really that far apart?

FINAL VERDICT: This is a frat house type of movie where you can take a drink every time something disgusting happens. Not a great horror movie, skip it.

Sub - Standard

[cmknight-549-626537 · 2/10 · 7 October 2009]

A policeman being slashed to pieces by a group of feral tunnel dwellers would make for a pretty sobering sight, you would have thought. Yet the alcohol must still be seriously affecting the decision making skills of the pitiless morons trapped in the abandoned subway, on what must surely be the worst stumble home from the pub ever. Everyone knows that if you go into an dark tunnel late at night, sooner or later you're going to wander into the path of knife wielding maniacs. That's a given. Or at least it needs to be in the case of this film, as there's absolutely no attempt to explain their presence. You just have to accept the fact that a group of people would rather live in the subway, killing strangers and living off their flesh, than live in the city of New York, a few feet above them. Our stag party, rather predictably, are picked off one by one, interspersed with long periods of slow motion running. None of the cretins seem to learn from the mistakes of the previous victim, despite the fact that they spend a lot of time standing around watching their friends get brutally murdered. Intervening is out of the question too as their heroics are limited to sacrificing themselves so that the others can escape. But as already mentioned, rather than run away, everyone stands around and watches the poor meat puppet die. Usually in slow motion. These ultimate sacrifices are supposed to make us feel some sort of sympathy for those involved, but it's so badly done that it's difficult to feel anything other than hysterics. The leader of the knife wielding maniacs (you can tell he's the leader because he's the tallest) gurns at his victims in such an odd way that it looks like someone's just shoved something up his bum hole. Maybe that's why he spends the whole time grunting. Essentially this is a film that lacks any kind of imagination. It steals from so many other horrors yet fails to mould anything decent with its bounty. What they should have done is made a film called "Hen Night" and had a load of hotties running about. The characters would have been equally irritating but at least it would have been easy on the eye.

Underground dwellers

[johnc2141 · 5/10 · 19 June 2019]

Stag night kind of reminds me of the 1973 movie deathline in America it's called raw meat. But censored heavily. And midnight meat train. It's an ugly world below the subway and these guys and 2 women leave a subway car and get trapped in this dirty disgusting world inhabited by cannibals. Can we call them chuds?Anyway it's a predictable story with a lot of blood and guts. It stars; Breckin Myer (Freddy's dead, final nightmare) Vanessa Shaw, and a few unknowns. It's a good time Easter you should only see once. No visible plot. But an uneasy feeling of claustrophobia.with rats and roaches and dirty toilets. The subway can be a very scary place and you really don't know what kind of evil lives underneath. But no alligators so they did leave that urban legend out of the movie. But can you get any worse than canabals?

Ferocious underground cannibals deliver gore and a fast pace.

[loomis78-815-989034 · 7/10 · 20 April 2013]

Four men out in New York celebrating stag night get thrown out of a nightclub due to Tony (Meyer) being a jerk. Younger brother Mike (Pardue) is the groom, and the four of them jump on the subway to head for more partying. Tony strikes again on the train when he pisses off a coupe of erotic dancers and the six of them prematurely exit the train and get left behind. They decide the only way out is to walk to the next station. Not in the greatest of moods, the six of them see three huge cannibal men attack and slice up a cop. These cannibals are brutal beings who rule the underground area that is unused since the 1970's. Once the group is discovered by the cannibals they start to hunt them and a fight for their lives ensues. Not the most original idea to come down the pike, but first time Director and Writer Peter A. Dowling makes good use of the underground setting and makes this film entertaining and at times scary. The characters are well written and acted and the cannibals are quite ferocious. The movie has decent gore and some of it is disturbing. The pacing is fast and the characters are someone you can root for a change. This is straight ahead horror that achieves what it sets out to do.

Next movie in the "Ghosthouse" horror series. If the creatures from "Descent" lived in a subway it would be this movie. I say C

[cosmo_tiger · 5/10 · 18 February 2011]

After a failed pick-up attempt on a subway train lands four guys and two girls in an abandoned stop at four in the morning they realize they have bigger problems then trying to find a way out. There really is not much to say about this one. Not much to this movie but finding people and killing and dismembering them. VERY Gory!!! For a "Ghosthouse" horror movie it actually is not too bad though. The best way to describe it would be if the creatures from "I am legend" and "The Descent" lived in the New York subways. If you are into gore and a decent story this would be a good pick up. I give it a C.

Would I watch again? - I don't think so.

Stag Night

[Scarecrow-88 · 6/10 · 19 August 2012]

Yes, Stag Night is derivative of those movies from the past where victims find themselves in the wrong place, unaware of the menace that lives within the environs they are trapped and unfamiliar. The menaces are hideous, grotesque underground subway dwellers, more than likely spawns of incest due to their inability to speak and obvious physical deformities. Five buddies (Kip Pardue and Breckin Meyer, familiar faces among them) are celebrating bachelor's night in NYC, getting kicked out of a club. They decide to hitch a ride (illegally without paying the toll) on a subway, meeting two girls (one, Vinessa Shaw, the Aja remake of The Hills Have Eyes, perhaps what horror fans will know her from), all getting off when the train stops momentarily, left accidentally by the conductor. They trek throughout the foreboding tunnels of the underground subway system, seeing the aforementioned psycho killers butchering a security guard warning them to quit fooling around with a snack machine. The killers carry home-made machete swords and spears, wearing scraggly clothes, their hygiene worse for wear. Most of the film has these human monsters chasing down and slaughtering members of the group, feeding the body parts to their blood-thirsty mutts. What this does have going for it (which isn't originality or a very steady camera) is its willingness to not give any member of the hunted cast a break; all are lambs to the slaughter. All are at one point or another stabbed and put through the ringer. The hunters all look like Rob Zombie from his White Zombie days, and they live for the kill. Pardue is the star with Shaw his aide as Meyer serves as the tag-along buddy always reminding them that they are certain to perish, never to make it out alive. The other guys and girl serve as bloody meat to be skewered and filleted. Lots of prosthetics, limbs and especially severed heads, are used in abundance. Constant running and fear, with the ever-present threat of gross inbred bums wielding blades always lurking around. I think the film's greatest asset is how it establishes a way of life underneath the city, that a whole community exists, including the wackos who have a shack they keep a female mannequin(!) watching television and their barking human-meat eating dogs chained. This will be appreciated by those who love their subway horror because the setting is presented as a labyrinth with few (if any) exits; what is scary is not only becoming lost underground but pursued by those who call it their home.

Night of the drunken cameraman

[djderka · 3/10 · 5 March 2013]

It is hard to review this movie because you can't see much of it. Way to much of the X-treme shaky camera, perhaps because Toby, the DP, thought he was working on Tremors (a drunken rehab film)which required him to go through a specialty course in dipsomania photography.

Hint: When you really don't have a film, shake the camera a lot and draw attention to the camera not the plot. "Look mom, I can shake the camera and not hold it still, even for a second". Mom: "Good job, Toby, now go out into the world and make films".

That and the 'subway' dark lighting scheme, means you couldn't see a thing or make out an image because of poor lighting and way overuse of shaky cam. Shaky cam plus bad lighting equals crap footage.

The story was about a couple of 'stag' guys stranded with a couple of strippers in the tubes of NYC while being pursued by several 'inbred tunnel rats'. That is the high concept summary.

So don't waste your time on this stinker.

Go rent Wrong Turn 1 & 2 instead. They are far superior films about hillbilly inbreds.

The director and cinematographer need to take Horror Movies 101.

1) Try and have sympathetic characters. None of the characters

in this movie should remain alive at the end. Did I actually

root for the 'tunnel rats'...I forgot.

2) Always and I mean always have the chicks in tight, cleavage

showing clothes. Stag Night actually even has

strippers, but covers them up like they were nuns. Bad decision.

3) Use and employ make up artists. It is amazing what they can

do (as in Wrong Turn). Here the make up was so bad, I wonder

if they just got some local bums to do the role. You never

really saw them indicating a cover up for poor make up job.

4) Have a plot somewhat unique and different from the hundreds

of others before you. Simply ripping off Wrong Turn does not

make a good film.

5) Use your setting to your advantage. Camera was so shaky I

wonder if they shot in a tunnel or someone's living room.

This could have been a great chance to really use the wonderful

tunnels of NYC and all the weirdness and wonder they contain.

6) Maintain tension and relief. This film does neither.

My Review Of "Stag Night"

[ASouthernHorrorFan · 9/10 · 16 July 2013]

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.

I am almost ashamed that I waited this long to see "Stag Night". For some reason I just never got around to watching it until two nights ago. Wow. This film was furious and stressful to watch. In a good way. I first thought it was going to be lame because of the set up. A group of guys out for a bachelor party thing. Thinking it would be another rich kids on wrong side of town flick I flippantly sat down to this film and began having my nerves shot and my mind knotted.

First off the film is shot in a very gritty and visually dark manner similar to "Mimic". The golden shadowy glow that makes me think of candle light for some reason. Anyway. It becomes more like an urban legend on steroids. The concept of a whole barbaric and viscous world under the city were what comes down gets eaten is raised to a high energy fright train of a ride for this group of guys who along the subway ride meet up with a couple of girls and things don't go as planned.

The film kinda starts a little slow at first but as soon as they step off the train and release their error this little flick does not let up until the very last second of the film. The action is fast paced and intense. The drama is in your face and truthful to the experience if it really could happen. You would actually feel this is how you would act. Well me I would have worked like a motherf*cker on that d*mn chain and lock on the abandoned station doorway until it f*cking broke and got my sorry a$$ up and out.

One by one the characters are chased down and brutalized in a flat out gore rich pounding from psycho hyper-disturbed cannibal homeless clan. This is fear of the tunnel people amplified. Use to be rats, gangs, regular subway homeless and the occasional C.H.U.D. was all you had to worry about but now you have blood thirsty amped up cannibals ready to run you down and gut you like a pig.

The story was great. Little dialog other than necessary to convey terror and heavy on the action and violence. The cast made you believe every gut wrenching moment of there nightmare tunnel trip. This film is a great horror tale spun from urban legend that I am truly ashamed to say I missed when it first came out. Glad I took the time to sit down and watch this flick.

Attack of the Ninja Cave Men Hobos!

[jennifer-25-965231 · 28 July 2011]

This movie should be called "Attack of the Ninja Cave Men Hobos" that title pretty much explains the entire movie. The movie starts off immediately with pretty much no character history or connection and continues this way until the end.

I'm not saying it was bad. I think Ninja Cave Men Hobos are actually pretty cool and I think you're weird if you don't. I'm just saying I wouldn't expect anything super awesome or amazing about this movie. It was a decent flick, It wasn't boring, the acting was better then your average horror movie. Not much else to say about this one.

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[Crazydemon · 7/10 · 3 September 2010]

This is a movie I didn't know yet until I recently bumped into it on a movies list. And I thought by myself, let's try it out... horror has always been my favorite genre and good or bad horror, I'm not really picky... :)

As for this movie:

okay... we've seen this a thousand times before... a group of people getting trapped (whether it's in a subway or in a forest or a building or even a town) and a group of vicious killers out for food and what's on the menu is part of that group!

Camera-work could have been better but in order to create the fast paced feeling it was necessary to work that way.

Creep meets Wrong Turn Midnight Meat Train meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The movie has a few added values (Kip Pardue, Breckin Meyer) and sure ain't half bad! I enjoyed watching this horror flick!

Can this really be this bad? Apparently yes!!!

[ryanmkincaid · 1/10 · 16 April 2012]

This movie is terrible. So bad so, I have written and re-written this review because I'm afraid IMDb would find the post offensive. I will keep is simple: terrible script that wants the viewer to be completely void of common sense; situations that are completely out of this world in a bad way; I just want to prattle on but I can't because I'm allowing this film to waste more and more of my time. Never have I rooted for EVERYONE to die in this film. I wanted a nuke just to take out the whole city and end it all. I should have realized how bad it was when we as the views see the reason the 6 characters get off of the subway. That in itself made it evident that I was in for a steaming pile.

Avoid, avoid, avoid.