Stay Alive - The Director's Cut (2006)

ok call me crazy but....

I thought this movie was actually pretty good. It wasn't great overall, but it was good in a way that most horror movies these days aren't. (For example, the re-make of Black Christmas, the new Prom Night...etc) and although there are definitely some ridiculous parts, its not the kind of horror movie that makes you wanna laugh out loud from the pure stupidity of it all.

And sure, the storyline isn't exactly original, as it follows along the typical plot of ghosts or whatever, killing people from some type of media advice (such as "The Ring" where people get killed after viewing a movie, "Pulse" where ghost type thingies are created through the internet, etc...) but still.

In this movie, a group of friends who enjoy playing video games, come across a certain game that kills them in the exact way that their characters die in the game itself, and can't even stop playing the game, because if they do, the game will play by itself for them. Now that is a bit ridiculous, ill admit, but the movie is well done, and entertaining, and the game in the movie actually looks really awesome, and I think it should become an actual game (without the part where it kills you of course!)

Plus there's a great story behind the video game, and even though the ending of the movie was pretty typical, I was satisfied with it. July 9, 2008

GAME OVER.

Stay Alive is piece of garbage. Bad acting and even worse plotline, these bored 20 year olds play a violent video game called Stay Alive. After they play the game, the players start dying and bunch of nonsense ensues. Stay away from this b film, you'll thank me later. June 20, 2008

NOT GOOD , NOT BAD

This movie is not as BAD as people are saying , the story about a " killer" video game is nice and scary , the actors are the ones to be really blamed for the bad parts of the film and the dialogs are a little weak and " generic" , but i liked this movie , maybe because i'm a video game FAN who knows ......... so i gave it 3 star , it's not a oscar winning movie but it's not as bad as some reviews are saying. June 14, 2008

Should Have Been Titled "Stay Away!"

Another moronic Gen Y PG-13 horror film that isn't scary, isn't well acted, isn't well written, and isn't interesting in the least. This movie fails on all levels. I imagine this turkey was strictly a tax write-off for the movie studio. In that sense it succeeds beautifully.

I'm not going into the plot or any of that (what plot?) as I'm sure other reviews here cover those aspects of the film. I'm just here to save you any money you may spend to purchase this waste of celluloid, as well as give you the precious 85 minutes of your life I lost watching this piece of excrement. You have been warned! March 26, 2008

Great movie, especially for gamers

I seem to be in the minority, but I thought this movie was awesome. Maybe it's because I play a lot of computer games and I thought the premise of a killer video game was really clever (maybe not unique, but well done.)

The plot revolves around a mysterious video game being tested by a couple of game testers. No one seems to know its origin, but it soon becomes apparent that when you play the game and your character dies, you soon meet the same fate in real life. The game is based on the real-life serial killer Elizabeth Bathory, a 16th century Hungarian countess who killed and tortured hundreds of girls. The movie takes some liberty with the facts, such as having The Countess, as she's called, move to America, where she finds the requisite spooky old manor to inhabit. The gamers finally figure out what's going on and find the real-life burial place of the Countess. One part I found cool was that while one character played the game on his laptop, he instructed the other one what to do in the actual castle. I found the blending of game and "reality" very well-done and intriguing. I won't spoil the ending, but the heroes eventually find the body of the actual Countess, and guess what- she's not dead! (surprise) There is a pretty cool final scene where they battle this vicious vixen, who I thought was one of the coolest movie monsters I've seen in a while.

Also included on this DVD is a commentary track, which I found very entertaining. A mixture of teen slasher film, video come to life, and techno-thriller. January 25, 2008

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