Thehibikiew Not even bad in a good way

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

loomis78-815-989034 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.

djderka 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 charactersin this movie should remain alive at the end. Did I actuallyroot for the 'tunnel rats'...I forgot.2) Always and I mean always have the chicks in tight, cleavageshowing clothes. Stag Night actually even hasstrippers, but covers them up like they were nuns. Bad decision.3) Use and employ make up artists. It is amazing what they cando (as in Wrong Turn). Here the make up was so bad, I wonderif 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 hundredsof others before you. Simply ripping off Wrong Turn does notmake 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 wonderfultunnels of NYC and all the weirdness and wonder they contain.6) Maintain tension and relief. This film does neither.

NutzieFagin Mindless violence...Bad Scripts and no plot whatsoever. That is what you will experience if you see "Stag Night" It was one of those boring Sunday afternoons that I glimpsed this flick--believe it or not..on afternoon cable! I love horror films but HATE horror films with no thought of a plot development and because the writers cannot ekke out a decent script, they resort for their characters to use the F word every two seconds.OK! the "plot" is that a group of male revelers who are celebrating a buddy's impeding marriage go out to a strip bar...hence "stag night" After a boozy night, they stagger to the subway...and trust me, even in New York the late night subways aren't THAT deserted! While on route in the subway car, one of the male group gets crude with two female riders. A fight breaks out in the subway car that has stopped in the tunnel--the battling group incredibly gets out at an abandoned subway stop. But they get more problems---There have been the urban legends of a subterranean society--mostly comprised of homeless psychotics that live beneath YOUR subway tunnels!! Witnessing a cop being murdered by these psycho (and cannibalistic I think) hobos, you will spend about 90 minutes of seeing these murderous cave man like bums chase the group---heads will explode,rape, decapitation and creepy bugs will entertain you! Then as you expect the film to give you a good ending to this mess--forgot it! You will get bupkus! So please by pass this boring slasher flick---Boring mindless violence!

Paul Andrews Stag Night is set in New York & starts late one night as three friends are thrown out of a strip club, soon to be married Mike (Kip Pardue) is out on a stag night with his brother Tony (Breckin Meyer) & his mate Carl (Scott Adkins) & decide to hit another bar after being thrown out of the strip club. The three friends think a short subway ride will get them to their next drinking hole but Tony makes unwanted advances on the train towards a pretty girl named Brita (Vanessa Shaw) who pulls the emergence exit switch & leaves the train ending up stranded on an abandoned station along with Tony, Mike, Carl & her friend Michelle (Sarah Barrand) when the train pulls away without them. Alone with no phone signal the small group are trapped & decide to walk through the tunnels to the next station but witness a policeman being murdered by tunnel dwelling tramps & soon find themselves running for their lives...Written & directed by Peter A. Dowling this fairly forgettable slasher film steals it's plot & locations from films such as the classic Death Line (1972) & the more recent Creep (2004), while not terrible Stag Night left me rather cold. The script is rather vague & takes itself far too seriously, there's never really any explanation who the killers are or even why they kill people, it's not to eat them as they just cut their victims up & feed it to their dogs, there's no explanation or reason why the normal looking homeless community seen at the end are in league with the killers, there's no apparent connection between the two & the killers can't even speak for some reason which just leaves boring dirty human killers who scream & grunt a lot while chasing a few people along dark subway tunnels. At only just over 80 minutes at least it's short & it moves along at a reasonable pace but by the hour mark I was sitting there thinking how repetitive Stag Night had become, basically the film just descends into scene after scene of a few people being chased around really dark subway tunnels & I just found it got tiresome after a while. The character's are alright but they won't live long in the memory, or at least in mine anyway & the lack of any sort of background or origin for the killers just seems a little lazy. I mean it's not exactly like Stag Night is overflowing with plot as it is so why the makers couldn't have fleshed the killers out a bit & give them some story or even gave them some basis in reality I don't know. Stag Night is pretty predictable, there's no logical reason why Brita would open the doors at an abandoned station & then everyone get off the train or how a guy with a serious injury can outrun a dog & a psycho killer who were literally a few feet behind him one scene & then nowhere to be seen in the next. In the great scheme of things Stag Night is watchable enough if you don't watch much horror in general but for those like me who are genre fans & do watch lots of horror Stag Night is nothing special & I will have probably forgotten all about it within a week.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. There are one or two good gore scenes with good special effects but there's not enough of them, there's a cool moment in which someones head is squashed by a moving train-track, there are impalings, some severed limbs & guts, a decent decapitation & a bitten throat but as I said there's just not enough here for my liking. Ceratinly competently made & quite slick it's a shame the film as a whole is bland, lifeless & ordinary.With a supposed budget of about $4,000,000 this was filmed in New York & in Bulgaria where things are obviously cheaper. The acting is alright from an alright cast but no-one is going to win any awards.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. I wouldn't want to watch it again to be honest.