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| Stay Alive - Original Theatrical Version (Full Screen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: William Brent Bell
Actors: Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Jimmi Simpson, Wendell Pierce
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (92 reviews)
Sales Rank: 23501
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 86 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5102703
UPC: 786936709407
EAN: 0786936709407
ASIN: B000FSL93Y
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: March 24, 2006
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Description
Get ready for supernatural chills and terrifying challenges in STAY ALIVE, the mind-bending thriller about a killer video game. The real world and the game world gruesomely collide when a group of friends play STAY ALIVE, a mysterious underground videogame that kills the gamer whose character dies in play. Inspired by the shocking true story of the 17th century serial killer known as the Blood Countess, the videogame gives disturbing new meaning to the phrase "game over." In a death defying race against time, the survivors must solve the mystery of the game while desperately trying to stay alive.
Amazon.com
Straight from the set-'em-up and knock-'em-down school of teen-horror filmmaking, Stay Alive gives literal meaning to the parental lament, "Those games will kill you someday." Not that you'll find any parents in this gimmicky thriller set in New Orleans; they're conspicuously absent when Hutch (Jon Foster) and his hardcore gamer pals discover "Stay Alive," a mysterious next-generation computer game that has a nasty way of precipitating mayhem, horror, and death. If your character dies in the game, you're doomed to die in identically grisly fashion in real life. So, just don't play the game, right? WRONG. This being a teen horror flick with a screenplay that makes no sense whatsoever, the gamer pals (including victim #2, Hutch's boss, played with game-addicted fervor by Adam Goldberg) obsessively investigate the game and its creepy Ring-like origins in the 17th century murder spree of a woman known as "The Blood Countess." Because movies like this are best viewed on a steady diet of Pop Tarts and Ritalin, Jimmi Simpson earns top honors as the gamer pal with the creepiest behavior, and Malcolm in the Middle fans will enjoy the presence of Frankie Muniz as a gamer geek whose primary fashion statement consists of grimy T-shirts and green plastic poker-visors. While not nearly as fun or clever as the Final Destination movies, Stay Alive delivers a few good deaths while blatantly stealing most of its horror highlights from Ju-On and other Japanese horror hits. It's junk from start to finish, but its target audience of mallrats and gamers (especially those with attention deficit disorder, which helps to ignore the plot holes) won't mind a bit.--Jeff Shannon
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 Entertaining November 15, 2008
This is not a movie that will ever win any great awards, but I like it. It's very entertaining, and it has some amusing characters. I think that with a bigger budget and a little more plot, they could have really made this a pretty good movie.
 Awesome Gaming Horror November 3, 2008
I loved this movie! A great storyline, twists, turns, and a solid ending that delivered, big time. I liked how they even incorrporated some real life into it, the Elizabeth Bathory chick was real, she even was a covicted mass murderer and was locked up in her tower like in the movie, look the bitch up on Wiki.
ok call me crazy but.... July 9, 2008
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.
 GAME OVER. June 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
NOT GOOD , NOT BAD June 14, 2008
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.
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