{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = STAG NIGHT | image = stagnightdvd.jpg | caption = | director = [[Peter A. Dowling]] | producer = [[Arnold Rifkin]]<br />Christopher Eberts<br />Michael Philip | writer = [[Peter A. Dowling]] | starring = {{plainlist| * [[Kip Pardue]] * [[Vinessa Shaw]] * [[Breckin Meyer]] * [[Scott Adkins]] * [[Karl Geary]] * [[Sarah Barrand]] }} | music = [[Benedikt Brydern]] | cinematography = [https://www.tobymoore.co.uk/ Toby Moore] | editing = Vanick Moridian | studio = Film Tiger<br/>Instinctive Film<br/>Rifkin-Eberts | distributor = Arsenal Pictures<br/>[[Lionsgate Studios|Lionsgate]]<br />[[Ghost House Pictures|Ghost House Underground]] | runtime = 84 minutes | released = {{Film date|2008|06|26}} | country = United States | language = English | budget = $4 million }} :''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]]<ref>[http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=17573 Photo Preview for Ghost House's Stag Night]</ref> written and directed by [[Peter A. Dowling]]<ref>[http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/12/27/new-images-and-artwork-for-ghost-house-undergrounds-stag-nig.html New Images And Artwork For Ghost House Underground's Stag Night]</ref> 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.
==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 witness the murder of a transit cop by three transients and find themselves on the run for their lives.
==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.<ref>[http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/31124/stagnight-art-and-stills Stagnight Art and Stills]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.fearnet.com/news/b21312_ghost_house_underground_hosts_stag_night.html Ghost House Underground Hosts a 'Stag Night']</ref>
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).{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
==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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/41618/new-images-and-artwork-ghost-house-undergrounds-stag-night|title=New Images and Artwork: Ghost House Underground's Stag Night|date=20 February 2013 |publisher=DreadCentral}}</ref> Ghost House Pictures released the DVD in the United States on 15 February 2011.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110107125420/http://www.28dayslateranalysis.com/2010/12/ghost-house-underground-to-bring-peter.html Ghost House Underground to Bring Peter A. Dowling's Stag Night to DVD and Blu-Ray February 15th]}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=1082599|title=Stag Night}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes|stag_night}}
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