Stag Night

I just got this today and popped it in.What I got was a great Slasher movie about Four guys ,Two of them brothers and Two exotic dancers coming home from a Stag party on a NYC Subway train.It gears up after Breckin Meyer's character gets maced by Vinessa Shaw's character for being a complete jerk and they have to get off the train because of the mace.Problem being it's the last train for hours and they end up getting stuck in the NYC subway so they have to venture into the tunnels.What they encounter are people that have lived in those tunnels for years maybe decades, some much more evolved than others. They run into four cannibalistic Neanderthal looking sub humans that roam the tunnels looking for victims to eat and oh they they also share bits and pieces with the wild dogs that they have housed in their humble abode that looks like a human butcher shop,but not at all clean or tidy.This is when the real fun begins.Kip Pardue,Breken Myer,Scott Atkins,Carl Geary and Vinessa Shaw are all excellent in their roles,the casting was very well done.If Vinessa looks familiar it's because she played the oldest daughter in the Hills Have Eyes remake. Stag Night is heavy on the gore which is always a plus, the lighting was well done and you could actually see what was going on most of the time.It's brutal and fast paced,not at all a hurry up and wait to get hacked up feel to it,I want to watch it again already.There are some endearing moments as well so it isn't without any sentiment or meaning.I usually don't care either way but viewing this I decided that I actually did like being endeared to a couple of these characters this gave it all the more impact.There are some really good fight scenes and a couple of surprising moments that lent to the flavor of the film..If I have one complaint and the only reason I held back a star and gave it 4 instead of 5 was the ending.I want to just pretend that I didn't see the last Ten seconds,BUT I did.I still give it 2 thumbs way up.Just think Creep meets Wrong Turn.

I'm not exactly sure why I didn't like this better than I did.I think it was because of the villains.They are just a small group of Rob Zombie fans living like feral swine. Not much different than their pack of barking dogs. They growl and grunt and are given no personality or motivation besides eating folks they catch. They're lame and they irritated me in every scene they're in. I was rooting for the yuppies to slaughter them.There's not even a hint of a suggestion of a backstory to them. Not that I need everything explained... but later, when the yuppies find a colony of relatively non-violent tunnel dwellers I found myself wondering why they didn't rise up and take out the neighborhood menace.Instead, the three greazy hairy bad guys (and their kid) are presented as supervillains, predators who (thanks to shakey cam filming) appear to be supernaturally fast and strong.There needed to be more to them, because as shown they're just shadowy blurs. Feral dogs needing to be put down.Not a bad watch, but not much of a story to it either. Meh.

This could have been more engaging,the story tends to fall apart when introducing new sequences.By the end,what could have been a decent horror film,has been enacted otherwise without proper build up of plot.Action,but little else to savor the details.

2011 movie that some say have been done before but I do not remember anything like this back in 2011. In fact this might be the beginning of those movies. The creatures are nothing that I imagined. This film will keep you guessing. Although this is fiction, there have been documented studies that many homeless people live in the subway tunnels in New York. Some maybe be violent, but many are homeless having their own little city in the tunnels.

Lots of action, suspense, drama and thriller

When you write about the NYC subways, you should at least take a ride on them, and not on a Saturday when you're on a holiday weekend. Anyone who lives in NYC knows the subways are crowded at 4:00 a.m. People work around the clock in the city that NEVER SLEEPS. That has been sung about for a reason. Yes, there are people living underneath the subway. They are the refuse of a city that caters to the super-rich. But this is a movie, so let's start there. So these jerky guys, who jump the turnstiles, and act like the jerks they are, are attacked by feral homeless people. I find it hard to believe that even people who are born in the belly of the transit system have some contact with other people, and the outside world. Okay, they're monsters, aberrations, like the alligators that people flush down the toilet and grow to a humongous size and are written about in the National Enquirer. And nobody knows about them, because no one works on the transit system after 5:00 p.m.? Where did that cop come from if there was no way out? He had a key to the gates! Another transgression is that they couldn't break through the gates that barred the subway entrance? Plenty of junk around to fight with, but nothing to pry open a flimsy gate! I could go on. Last is the lovemaking scene: What woman would make love on a filthy rat and roach infested NYC subway floor? None that I know. Don't know any men either who'd do that. This is a film about hipsters (looks like the girlfriend live on the Upper East Side) who are invading NYC and are swallowed by it, avenged by the disenfranchised, the poor-turned-beasties, the lost souls of old New York. Yes, NYC is scary. Scary expensive.

It was pretty good without too much gore which annoys me. I just wish for a different ending - SPOILER ALERTS - the kid appearing at the end really pissed me off. Savages shouldn't get away with that much bad behavior. Also, where is the scene where he destroys the underground habitat of the squealers that gave him up to the savages after he and Brita escape? Where is their just desserts? Mother-effers need penance. And they shouldn't win - savage cannibals shouldn't win over humans especially Kip Pardue on a roll.

This movie isn’t terrible but it’s also not that great. Storyline was just ok, the story has been done before though and better in a movie called “Creep” about subway terror.

Mike, his brother Tony, and friends Carl and Joe are out for Mike's bachelor party when they get kicked out of a club. Determined to keep the night going, they decide to ride the New York subway to get to another club. When they get on the train, they just so happen to get on the same carriage as two strippers who were coincidentally at the club they were just kicked out of. Carl and Tony go over to the women and start flirting when Tony gets a little frisky, when our charming bookworm stripper Brita sprays him in the face with mace. This happens of course just as the train comes to a temporary stop for the tracks to change, then for no reason I can think of, all six get off at a station that's been closed down since the seventies, despite the fact that the broken payphone has a modern push button dial. Realising they can't get out from where they are, they decide to split up as you do and walk down the track to the next station. When they arrive near the next station, they witness three homeless cannibals brutally murder a cop. With no danger of being seen by them, Tony accidentally kicks a solitary can that has somehow found its way on to the track. Spotted by the underground transients, the group of friends are in for a long night of being chased by the most energetic, sophisticated, cannibalistic homeless maniacs I've ever seen in any film.The acting is pretty decent, not that they have to do all that much but run. Kip Pardue as Mike was nowhere near as annoying as I found him in the last film I saw him in, the very poor but reasonably entertaining Wizard Of Gore remake. Vinessa Shaw who I liked quite a bit in the Hills Have Eyes remake, puts in a decent performance as the stripper with brains and heart stripping her way through college. Breckin Meyer gives just about the best performance as Mike's mess up of a brother, Tony. Scott Adkins, Karl Geary and Sarah Barrand round off the group of friends and aren't terrible. The homeless are played by Bulgarians where the film was mainly shot, they're reasonably menacing as they grunt and sprint through the tunnels. It's written and directed by Peter A. Dowling, he wrote the decent Jodie Foster film Flightplan but Stag Night is his debut as director. He actually does a decent job at directing, the atmosphere is good and some of the chases are quite suspenseful. He could have wrote a better script but I try not to nitpick horror film scripts too much. He should however have sacked his cinematographer who thought he was making a found footage film, during every bit of action the camera shakes all over the place, ridiculously so at some points. I don't know what the aim was with the shaky cam, it only annoyed me and I nearly turned it off at one stage because of that alone. The music is very good, as other reviewers have stated, it has a John Carpenter in the eighties sound to it and it worked nicely. The film is very dark in places and it's hard to see what's going on, it doesn't happen often and it is set in underground tunnels so it should be dark. There's no nudity and nor should there be, there's plenty of gore and it's done what appears to be practically and looks good.I really did enjoy aspects of Stag Night, and it obviously has rewatch value as I've seen it twice and will watch it again in the future. It just has a few too many bad points to be a great film, the dodgy writing is the main offender with there being too many coincidencies. It irritated me slightly that the hobos were so fit, healthy and at times appeared to be kung fu masters, I know if I run without stopping for five minutes I need a cup of tea and a lie down, but they just keep going. They've clearly been living underground for years, possibly decades. When you consider they killed a cop or security guard early on in the film, if that was a regular occurrence then there's no way the underground wouldn't have been searched by a large police unit. I think they try and explain that away at the beginning when it says that over 100,000 people go missing in New York every year and the adults are never looked for, hard to believe but I can accept that, but not when so many people would have gone missing from the same place including cops and security guards. The homeless also keep dogs who are very well trained, and again would require regular feedings. We pretty much guess who's going to live and die throughout the film, and if it wasn't for a pointless, ridiculous, pathetic last jump at the end I would have been spot on.Despite all the film's faults it really is an enjoyable watch, acting is okay, good direction, camera work is good when the cinematographer doesn't get carried away, there's plenty of decent gore, and it feels like a bit of a throwback to seventies and early eighties films. Some other reviewers have mentioned the film Creep as a comparison, I don't really see it myself apart from a similar setting, to me it feels like Gary Sherman's 1973 low budget gem Death Line or Raw Meat as it's known in the US, on steroids. It was made for $4,000,000 in Bulgaria, a new favourite place for directors to shoot on a low budget and get more for their money. It certainly doesn't look like a cheap film, the slimy, grimy underground setting is great. The picture quality is good, apart from a few overly dark scenes there's nothing to complain about, the sound is fine and all the dialogue is clear. The real disappointment is that the DVD is as basic as they come, no extras, no audio options, not even subtitles. In the last four or five days I've watched maybe five films and every one has had no extras, it really irritates me that films like this made in 2008 are still being released with no extras at all. For what we pay, it would be nice to have a few extras, especially for the people that really liked the film. Stag Night is by no means a great film, I'd recommend Death Line as a better film, and I did just about prefer Creep to be honest, but it's a very entertaining way to pass 80 minutes.

what could have been a good film is absolutely ruined by awful camera work,unless you want a headache trying to focus on whats actually going on ,dont bother.

I expected this to be very similar to "Creep", which is a great film but was left feeling very disappointed. The acting wasn't very good, scenes which should have been scary were actually quite laughable and there was little suspense. The character development was non existent, which meant that I didn't really care what happened to them. I stopped watching halfway through, it was just so bad. I just wish I hadn't wasted my money on it.

They really should have stayed on the train. Or better yet out of the subway station in the first place. Cabs? Hello? Oh yeah cabs can be driven by killers too... Anyway. This is just another slasher movie set in an underground death trap hell hole. There's some nice kills here. But not much else.

Good