6.5 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
A group of guys from a bachelor party get off the subway at a station that shut down in the 1950s and, after watching a transit cop get brutally murdered, find themselves running for their lives beneath the streets of New York.
Starring: Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, Breckin Meyer, Scott Adkins, Karl GearyHorror | 100% |
Thriller | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 2.0 | |
Video | 2.5 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Perhaps the best indication of how completely derivative Stag Night is is the fact that I could virtually repeat my review from the first “Ghost House Underground” release from Lionsgate, Psych: 9, substitute the film name and make a few plot point changes, but otherwise just send it out into the big, wide world as is and see if anyone noticed. Like Psych: 9, we get the standard prelude with a terrified blonde running from some unseen source. She comes to a locked door (in this case a subway gate), of course can’t get out, tries to escape another way and (yes, yes, you’re probably breathless with suspense, but wait for it) meets her doom. Jump cut to four obnoxious but generally likable guys who are out on the town for a bachelor party. The most obnoxious of them gets them kicked out of a dive and they then get into an altercation with two “working girls” on a subway, leading to them stumbling off the train at a closed stop. Thus begins an evening of terror and dread the likes of which have never been seen. No, I’m not referring to events within the film; I’m warning you of what’s in store for you should you choose to watch this dreck.
"Nope. . .it's no better watching this mess upside down."
What the frell is going on with Stag Night? This is one of the most bizarrely schizoid transfers in recent memory, one obviously culled from different source elements. The AVC encoded 1080p image in 1.78:1 is alternately sharp as a tack and then just fuzzy as all get out with overwhelming grain which approaches digital noise levels. This does not seem to be a case of post-processing and the changes come willy-nilly through the film, almost as if two different units were utilizing different film stocks. The good parts of Stag Night bristle nicely with detail, well saturated color, and a pleasingly sharp and well defined image. The bad parts of Stag Night are murky, low contrast with a completely lack of detail, and just completely overrun with grain. I've frankly never seen anything quite like it, at least in recent memory, and if it this was an intentional choice, it backfires in a very big way.
Somewhat better (how in fact could it be worse?) is the lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix offered on this Blu-ray. While there are some nice moements of immersion, including things like pans for the subway train noise and some nice discrete channel utilization for some of the foley effects like dripping water in the cavernous subway tunnels, this is really a pretty surprisingly front heavy mix for a horror film. Dialogue and effects are reasonably well mixed here, and the film has the requisite supply of startling LFE. The claustrophobic confines of the tunnels may have precluded a really impressive use of surrounds here, but this is not an overly aggressive cinema track, perhaps the result of the film's probably miniscule budget. Fidelity is very good, but there's just not anything very remarkable here.
To say Stag Night is déjà vu all over again does a disservice to anyone suffering from déjà vu. This is simply too derivative, too formulaic and too ridiculous to ever provide anything other than rote chills.
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