by cmnkb8
I was watching some video clips of the NYC subway on Youtube and all of a sudden I get a flashback of this really bad movie that I saw about 10 years ago at like 1 in the morning on a local network which featured scenes on an IRT line in either Harlem or the Bronx. I forget the name of the movie (and I'm trying to see if anyone else may have seen it and find out), but it was a B-movie (or perhaps C-movie or even straight to video, as the plot wasn't really coherent) type thriller flick. Anyways here's a plot summary of what I can remember:
The movie is set in the 1980's (I know for sure because the IRT trains that appear in the movie are in the NYCTA all-white paint scheme and defaced with graffiti). I can't remember the names of the main characters, nor any of the actors. However, they are definitely not anyone well-known, and I think one of the female lead chars. is portrayed by a porn star
.
The movie starts off with a trio of friends driving in a car heading into (or out of, can't remember for sure) NYC on the highway late at night (2 women, 1 man) when they notice they're low on gas. They eye a gas station sign on the side of the highway and exit off the highway into what appears to be a run down scary looking ghetto neighborhood. They find the gas station abandoned, and with not enough gas to get anywhere else, they park the car and go out on foot to seek accommodations (or something like that, my memory gets fuzzy). As soon as they get out of the car, groups of thugs and gangsters come up behind them, first smashing in the windows of their car and trashing it, then chasing them. They are chased by what appears to be a seemingly endless stream of thugs armed with knives, lead pipes, and baseball bats. The trio do everything they can to escape, climbing over fences, running through alleyways, tipping over garbage cans to thwart their pursuers, etc. They try calling the police via pay phones, but none of them seemed to work (a common and believable problem in NYC in the 80's
).
Anyway, after a bunch of shenanigans, the trio force their way into a closed subway station (but apparently not abandoned because the platform was well lit and seemingly well maintained) still being chased by the thugs. There were identification markers on the support beams of this station, but my memory poops out here. They said either 136th Street or 155th Street...well it was definitely 1xx Street, that's all I can remember. Probably was an active station with the markers labeled over to create a fake "closed" station. And the beams were all the white tile type (if that helps at all in identifying it
). It's a local IRT station, and from what I can tell from the ensuing tunnel chase scene a 4 track station (2 express tracks, 2 local tracks). Since the station is closed, all trains pass by without stopping (there are some decent camera shots of R26/28/29/33/36's passing by), and the trio is forced to run into the tunnels to elude their pursuers. After some confusion, and running around (and jumping out of the way of oncoming trains), the trio is separated in the tunnels and while trying to get back together with each other, one of the two women gets hit by a 6 train (I remember the route sign when the camera showed the oncoming train) operating on the express track (even though of course, the 6 is a local). Fast forward a bit in the movie, some police officer at police HQ gets a call about a train striking someone in the tunnel near that closed station. Anyway, the 2 remaining survivors make their way back to the surface and are rescued by police en route to investigate the (I assume fatal) incident at the subway station. I blank out on what else happens in the movie (but I remembered most of the subway scenes and that's what counts 
).
Anyway, just thought I'd share this flashback and maybe someone else can tell me the title of this flick. It was definitely a bad movie overall, but I remember so much of it because it had quite a bit of subway scenes in it. Any help in identifying the film's title is appreciated. And man, if after so many years, I get a flashback of this movie, it's worth watching again!
The movie is set in the 1980's (I know for sure because the IRT trains that appear in the movie are in the NYCTA all-white paint scheme and defaced with graffiti). I can't remember the names of the main characters, nor any of the actors. However, they are definitely not anyone well-known, and I think one of the female lead chars. is portrayed by a porn star
. The movie starts off with a trio of friends driving in a car heading into (or out of, can't remember for sure) NYC on the highway late at night (2 women, 1 man) when they notice they're low on gas. They eye a gas station sign on the side of the highway and exit off the highway into what appears to be a run down scary looking ghetto neighborhood. They find the gas station abandoned, and with not enough gas to get anywhere else, they park the car and go out on foot to seek accommodations (or something like that, my memory gets fuzzy). As soon as they get out of the car, groups of thugs and gangsters come up behind them, first smashing in the windows of their car and trashing it, then chasing them. They are chased by what appears to be a seemingly endless stream of thugs armed with knives, lead pipes, and baseball bats. The trio do everything they can to escape, climbing over fences, running through alleyways, tipping over garbage cans to thwart their pursuers, etc. They try calling the police via pay phones, but none of them seemed to work (a common and believable problem in NYC in the 80's
). Anyway, after a bunch of shenanigans, the trio force their way into a closed subway station (but apparently not abandoned because the platform was well lit and seemingly well maintained) still being chased by the thugs. There were identification markers on the support beams of this station, but my memory poops out here. They said either 136th Street or 155th Street...well it was definitely 1xx Street, that's all I can remember. Probably was an active station with the markers labeled over to create a fake "closed" station. And the beams were all the white tile type (if that helps at all in identifying it
). It's a local IRT station, and from what I can tell from the ensuing tunnel chase scene a 4 track station (2 express tracks, 2 local tracks). Since the station is closed, all trains pass by without stopping (there are some decent camera shots of R26/28/29/33/36's passing by), and the trio is forced to run into the tunnels to elude their pursuers. After some confusion, and running around (and jumping out of the way of oncoming trains), the trio is separated in the tunnels and while trying to get back together with each other, one of the two women gets hit by a 6 train (I remember the route sign when the camera showed the oncoming train) operating on the express track (even though of course, the 6 is a local). Fast forward a bit in the movie, some police officer at police HQ gets a call about a train striking someone in the tunnel near that closed station. Anyway, the 2 remaining survivors make their way back to the surface and are rescued by police en route to investigate the (I assume fatal) incident at the subway station. I blank out on what else happens in the movie (but I remembered most of the subway scenes and that's what counts ).Anyway, just thought I'd share this flashback and maybe someone else can tell me the title of this flick. It was definitely a bad movie overall, but I remember so much of it because it had quite a bit of subway scenes in it. Any help in identifying the film's title is appreciated. And man, if after so many years, I get a flashback of this movie, it's worth watching again!
