Stay Alive

    Stay Alive
    2006

    Synopsis

    After the brutal death of a friend, a group of friends find themselves in possession of a video-game called "Stay Alive," a blood-curdling true story of a 17th century noblewoman known as the Blood Countess. After playing the game when they know they shouldn't, however, the friends realize that once they die in the game — they die for real!

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    Cast

    • Jon FosterHutch
    • Samaire ArmstrongAbigail
    • Frankie MunizSwink
    • Sophia BushOctober
    • Jimmi SimpsonPhineus
    • Adam GoldbergMiller Banks
    • Wendell PierceDetective Thibodeaux
    • Milo VentimigliaLoomis Crowley
    • Billy SlaughterRex
    • Nicole OppermannSarah

    Recommendations

    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      Horror buffs looking for a novel twist on genre formulas should look elsewhere, but this body-count potboiler about a sinister video game and the poor dopes who make the mistake of playing it is the movie equivalent of junk food: It's not good, but it's predictable and even satisfying, in a low-expectations way.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      A passable horror-thriller for the young crowd, assuming a movie can lure them away from PlayStations.
    • 50

      Variety

      Despite some hackneyed qualities, helmer William Brent Bell's good-looking if undistinguished cast and the seemingly fresh twist on an old tale should lure the usual fans of mayhem, murder and the medieval.
    • 40

      The New York Times

      The star of Stay Alive is a cutting-edge video game, but the film still has hackneyed horror at its heart. And worse, it's not even the stylishly, wittily executed hackneyed horror of the "Scream" movies.
    • 40

      Los Angeles Times

      Stay Alive spends a lot of time inside the video game system, and what will terrify the audience very early on is the realization that there's better acting in the video game than on the big screen.
    • 38

      New York Daily News

      There's a fascinating and terrifying story to be told about Elizabeth Bathory, the dramatically depraved 17th century sadist known as the Blood Countess.....This ain't it.
    • 38

      Boston Globe

      Always the way in horror flicks: These first scenes, when the characters are being tenderly established and the concept is still young, are the best.
    • 30

      L.A. Weekly

      Stay Alive is death porn without the porn: Director William Brent Bell's pre-gore cutaways should enrage even those horror buffs for whom suspense is irrelevant, to say nothing of the fact that the movie's only real scare tactic is playing what sounds like a reverbed electric razor on the soundtrack.

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