Four guys on a bachelor party get off the subway at a station that shut down in the 70's and, after watching a transit cop get brutally murdered, find themselves running for their lives beneath the streets of NY.
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Well... Actually I hate thrillers, but this one has something positive still. This movie has a good script, at least 1/2 of it, I tell you that, and everything looks pretty realistic. The actors play well, one can definitely feel both tension and despair. The beginning is an everyday story, so it makes you think it could have happened to anyone. This is a nice thing I love about films: an everyday, ordinary story with ordinary people and ordinary details. Afterwards it gets more complicated. Maybe now It is time I turn to more critics. Generally, I was expecting something more terrifying than just derelicts. Some mutants, maybe, or vampires. But no matter, no matter. Now the story turns to a less realistic one anyway: thousands of people disappear every year just because of three aggressive homeless persons and a kid? Really? Concerning the main characters - towards the end they begin to act in a less reasonable way as the story fades. I mean, couldn't they just fight more or less when they were in higher numbers and not to wait until the enemy eliminates them all one by one? This is just one question, and I am sure, there are more... That is all about the story so far. Music: was it there? I think, not. Camera: good work, cameraman, no problem there. Decorations: poor, but OK. Effects: that decapitation was a piece of cake! Unfortunately, this was the only effect worth of mentioning. Conclusion: The film is entertaining, but not more. Not for high expectations.
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.
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.
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.ZombieSteak.com - Discover a new world of horror films, designed just for you.