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.

TheHrunting This opens up with a bloodied woman running away from "something" in the terminal of a subway station only to be slaughtered with no one to hear her desperate cries for help. Now, four guys in the wee morning are celebrating a bachelor party at a strip joint when they get kicked out and head for another club by using the subway to get there. They catch two ladies on the train from earlier--one drunk and ditsy, the other confident and collected--and try to continue the party up until one of the woman gets fed up and uses pepper spray on the unruly brother of the polar opposite nice-guy bachelor. They all step off to clear their eyes, when suddenly the nonchalant operator takes off and leaves them stranded.The terminal exits are locked, there's no cell phone reception and even if another train comes through it won't stop. Four of them head up the tracks on foot while a man and woman stay behind to get a little frisky--yes, the filmmakers went there, partial nudity to boot. Soon enough they realize they're in danger when three modern day cavemen looking vagabonds brutally kill a cop after he catches them raiding a vending machine. The villains end up being one-note savages who's stench alone could make one keel over, who are so dirty they look like they have permanent tans, who's obnoxious growls could make any wild beast run with tail between legs and who's skin is so greasy it could be bottled up to make everlasting Jheri curl solution. From what was initially just a time-killing mistake turns into a killer game of hide and seek till they can come up with a plan to get out safely, including manning and womanning up to fight back as these tunnel dwellers are far from lethargic pushovers looking for a handout but skilled warriors that like to taunt their opponents for the challenge. Now, it's explained that their situation and the groom to be have a coincidental connection in that bachelors some ages ago would be sent out for the night to hunt a stag to prove they could survive the test and provide for their families."Stag Night" doesn't even try to be great. The acting is adequate if not award winning. It's more unintentionally funny in some areas than scary despite some foreshadowing and other sections that attempt to stack tension. It uses excessively frantic camera shots to translate the action and fight scenes, but instead cause more hangovers than palpitating hearts. Sometimes the music seems independent from the film with attempted build ups to translate an atmosphere that seems nonexistent. This is a purist horror film that relies heavily on conventions down to the finish line--though one that tries and keeps up and falls short of even breaking through the ribbon. But let's face it this is a one-off movie for rowdy group gatherings that everybody can half pay attention to or wildly talk over, as other classics have been outlined better, came with more interesting characters, had villains that were more mysterious and menacing, or just included more inventive death scenes even though this does produce some decent blood shed and gore. On one hand you can count on it but on the other there's not going to be a ton of things to write home about afterwards. One thing in its credit is the story is pretty straightforward, which isn't always a bad thing as it had its share of plot holes but didn't get entirely confusing or overly ambitious. It sticks to its tried-and-true guns, even if those guns are somewhat dull and worn thin. (Also submitted on http://fromblacktoredfilmreviews.blogspot.com/)

ZombieSteak .com 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.

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.