Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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!

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.

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.

Add all the right elements to the Horror movie mix....several friends, some girls some guys. Place them into disturbing surroundings that makes them unsettled, Namely: a deserted Subway....works great. Add several more Psycho Homeless people hungry for murder and you have... "Stag Night." I've given this one a "3" but with one minor adjustment it could have been as good as....say..."Wrong Turn." but sadly the Director didn't believe his project was scary enough so the "Shake the Camera" was given the thumbs up....and 'Oh man did they shake it. Just as things were really getting moving I had to turn the DVD off lest I would have spent the remainder of the night throwing up from motion sickness.....Yes it was that bad....hard to make out what the hell you were watching at times.....Directors Alert.....let the "Shake the Camera" style die or your audience may get up and leave.......I sure did.