Review of Stag Night

In New York, on the bachelor party of Mike (Kip Parude), he goes with his troublemaker brother Tony (Breckin Meyer) and his friends Carl (Scott Adkins) and Joe (Karl Geary) to a strip club; however Tony gets in a fight with other costumers and the group is expelled by the bouncers. Tony convinces Mike and his friends to take the subway and go to another bar; in the wagon, they see the striper Michelle (Sarah Barrand) and her friend Brita (Vinessa Shaw), and Carl makes a corresponded move to Michelle. When Tony flirts with Brita, she becomes upset and uses a spray against him. The train stops in a traffic light in an abandoned station, and Brita forces the door and leaves the wagon to breath, followed by the others. However the signal opens and they are left behind in the station, Mike, Tony, Joe and Brita decide to walk through the tunnel to the next station and seek help for Carl and Michelle that prefer to stay alone dating in the station. When they reach the next station, they witness a trio of brutal homeless men killing a guard and they run through the tunnel trying to escape from the deranged murderers in the beginning of their nightmarish night.

The gore "Stag Night" is a rip-off of "Creep" with Franka Potente, i.e., a claustrophobic plot with people trapped in the subway tunnels. The acting and make-up are excellent, but the camera work is terrible in the action scenes. The flawed screenplay uses many clichés of the genre and Brita is indeed the only character that takes reasonable attitudes in a distressed situation of panic. This movie is not totally bad and entertains, but could be better and better. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Fuga Sobre Trilhos" ("Run on the Rails")