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Written and Directed by Peter A. Dowling, Starring Kim Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, Breckin Meyer, Karl Geary, Scott Adkins, Horror, USA, 84 Mins

DVD release date 19th April 2010. DVD RRP: £12.99.Blu-Ray RRP £19.99. BUY NOW

Can anyone guess the link between the 80’s kiddies classic ‘The Raggie Doll’s,’ FlightPlan’ and ‘Stag Night’? – That’s correct, they all projects involving Writer/Director Peter A. Dowling! He worked both as an animator in the 80’s and wrote the Jodie Foster hit FlightPlan.

So back to ‘Stag Night’ – well there is certainly no ‘Sad Sacks’ to be seen in Dowling’s incredibly impressive horror flick set on a New York tube line.

The film starts as a typical stag night, out on his last night of freedom before wedded bliss, Mike (Kip Pardue – ER) and his four friends are set for an evening of strip joints and alcohol.

Early on in the film, during a quick phone call to his fiancée our main character assures her everything is fine and he will stay safe throughout the night. Noooooo – don’t say it! This, in movie land, as we all know, is a sure fire way to death and a bloody gory treat for the viewer.

A little later in the evening when thrown out of the club for rowdy behaviour, the group decide to catch the tube across town to seek alternative entertainment. Upon meeting two loan female revealers – Tony (Brekein Meyer – Ghost of Girlfriends Past) gets too frisky, resulting in a spray of Mace to his eyes. With the train stopped at a red light – both the boys and the girls decide to jar open the doors and leave the carriage to escape the Mace fumes.

When the train chugs on without them, the group find themselves stranded in the dark underground tunnels of New York, with no access to the day light. Determined to find a way out, they work their way through the cities rail lines in the hope of finding safe passage to streets above.

In a classic horror plot twist – Tony and his newly found ‘shag Interest’ decide to hang back and leave the rest to seek help. Left alone to consummate their friendship they’re soon set upon by a scraggly creature hiding in the darkness of the tunnels. While trying to retrieve his stolen wallet, Tony’s bitten by the human like monster.

From here it becomes apparent our Stag Nighters are not alone and something is watching them. One by one they are slaughtered, chased through a maze of tunnels and hunted by the underground dwellers. Will they ever escape? Is this more than just the last day of freedom for Mike? Will he ever see his wedding day or in fact any other day ever again?

To find out the answer buy the DVD. I enjoyed this film; I think it’s one of the best mainstream Horrors since the first Saw movie.

The direction is intense and very eerie at times. The lighting and camera angles are outstanding with many shots from the rail line level with the characters in the distance. This gives a depth to the tunnels and helps the director deliver an uneasy feeling that the group are constantly being watched.

This film ticks all the right boxes as to how a mainstream horror should be made. There were moments, when watching the film, that I experienced those heart -beating -fast moments comparable to those nerves I experienced the first time I watched the original Saw movie.

Undeniably there are some similarities in the way both films are acted out – it is classic Horror in the mould of the original Saw. In another day and age there is no way this film would have been direct to Home video. This would have been a theatrical classic with a really good second movie, five shit sequels and a rage of merchandise.

Nick Gibbs McNeil.

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