Stag Night
- Fundamentals, reception.
- American live action feature length film, 2008, rated R, 84 minutes, horror.
- IMDB: 4.9/10.0 from 2,313 audience ratings. Estimated budget, 1.5 million USD.
- Rotten Tomatoes: 'No tomatometer score yet,' 15% liked it from 490 audience ratings.
- I watched this on Showtime.
- Written and directed by: Peter A. Dowling.
- Starring: Kip Pardue as Mike, Vinessa Shaw as Brita, Breckin Meyer as Tony, Scott Adkins as Carl, Karl Geary as Joe, Sarah Barrand as Michele, Rachel Oliva as Claire.
- Setup and Plot
- In New York City, four men warm up for a bachelor party at a dive. One of the single men irritated a woman at the bar enough for her to leave with her friend. Coupled with a near brawl, the four men get booted from the bar. They decide to head to another venue uptown via subway.
- On the subway, they meet the two women who had exited the bar. The earlier offender resumes his bad behaviour, and one of the women pepper sprays him. The train stops to let another roll by. The six young idiots exit the train to get out of the pepper spray, but do not get back in before the train takes off.
- They are locked out from the stairs to the surface. Four of them enter the tunnel (where the electric rails are) to find a telephone or another (unlocked) portal to the surface. There is a lot of bickering along the way.
- Surprise! They do not have cell reception, of course. They are not alone. There are unfriendly people (well, cannibals) in the tunnels.
- Will any of them get out alive?
- Conclusions
- One line summary: Elimination derby: cannibals vs twenty-somethings.
- One star of five; one black hole for screenplay.
- Scores
- Cinematography: 2/10 Grainy, jumpy, out of focus, too often hand-held. Absurdly bad blood effects.
- Sound: 2/10 Sound does not always match lip movements, for instance.
- Acting: 4/10 Actors read their lines, it seemed.
- Screenplay: 2/10 Very little content, just dissension and hard brutality, plus illogical setups and cliches.
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