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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Buena Vista Home Video EAN: 0786936709384 Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Hollywood Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Hollywood Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Hollywood Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 19, 2006 Running Time: 101 minutes Sales Rank: 20291 Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Hollywood Theatrical Release Date: March 24, 2006
Product Description: When a group of friends play a mysterious underground video game they enter a waking nightmare - when they die in the game they die in real life in the same grisly manner. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/11/2007 Run time: 160 minutes
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Entertaining
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.
Rating: - Awesome Gaming Horror
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.
Rating: - 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, ... Read More
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - 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.
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