Stag night is also the UK, Canadian, Irish, Australian and New Zealand term for a Bachelor party.
Stag Night is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Peter A. Dowling and starring Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, and Breckin Meyer. The plot follows four men from a bachelor party along with two strippers who become trapped in an abandoned platform in the New York City Subway, where they witness a murder.
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Plot
Four men on a bachelor party in New York ride the subway and, along with two strippers from the club, accidentally get off at a station that closed down in the 1970s. Trapped in the tunnels beneath New York, they are hunted by savage cannibals and have to survive the night.
Cast
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
Luca Bercovici as Tunnel Rat #1
Genadii Gancheva as Tunnel Rat #2
Radoslav Parvanov as Tunnel Rat #3
Suzanna Urszuly as Woman
Itai Diakov as Kid Tunnel Rat
Nikolai Sotirov as Old Man
Phil Jackson as Rain Driver
Vencislav Stojanov as Cop
Jo Marr as Young Man
Amy Mihailova as Young Woman
Yordan Zahariev as Bouncer #1
Gabriel Balanica as Bouncer #2
Maya Andreeva as Old Woman
Dennis Andreev as Child
Lyubomir Yonchev as Shanty Town Bo
Production
Produced by Arnold Rifkin and Chris Eberts, under their Rifkin/Eberts label, and Michael Philip and Jo Marr of Film Tiger. The movie was shot in 2007 in Sofia, Bulgaria and in New York City. The post-production took place at "The Post Group", Hollywood, Los Angeles in 2008. Chris Ouwinga and Darryn Welch financed the film via their production company, Instinctive Film.
Starring Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, Breckin Meyer, Karl Geary, Scott Adkins, Sarah Barrand, Rachel Oliva and Luca Bercovici.
Closing Credits Song, "Don't Hide Away From the Sun" by Alphanaut.
Inspiration
Running in almost real time, Stag Night is a throwback to the early film of John Carpenter and 1970s thrillers such as Deliverance while the plot bears a certain resemblance to that of the classic British horror film Death Line (1972).
Release
The film was first time released as Direct-to-DVD on 26 June 2008 in Brazil as Fuga Sobre Trilhos. It was part of the Screamfest Horror Film Festival on 8 February 2010. Ghost House Pictures released the DVD in the United States on 15 February 2011.