Stay Alive
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 19, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Touchstone / Disney
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jon Foster, Sophia Bush & Frankie Muniz | |
Performer: | Samaire Armstrong, Adam Goldberg, James Haven & Milo Ventimiglia | |
Directed by | William Brent Bell | |
Screenwriting by | William Brent Bell | |
Composition by | Tyler Bates & John Frizzell | |
Produced by | Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman & James D. Stern |
Entertainment Reviews:
One of those movies that thinks loud sounds and shaky cameras account for scares, and reminding of us of truly scary gaming experiences only amplifies its weaknesses.
UGO
Rating: D- --
Teen fodder like this isn't known for sophistication or storytelling depth, but the filmmakers seem to take the film's video-game theme as permission to eschew even the horror genre's exceedingly lenient minimums for characterization.
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AV Club
Rating: 1/5 --
Stuttering like a busted console, the film's lack of invention is only rivalled by a paucity of gore which will seem positively comical to gamers long since inured to cyberspace slaughter.
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BBC.com
Rating: 1/5 --
Never has a title been more horribly at odds with the way you're actually going to feel while watching the movie.
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Guardian
Rating: D- --
Videogames are no longer brainless, so why are videogame movies so slow to evolve?
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Entertainment Weekly
There's a gothic backstory to all this, which makes no sense but looks pretty cool.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2/5 --
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Movies for the Masses
Product Description:
This pop culture-laden fright-fest takes the legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary and relocates it in the inherently creepy locale of New Orleans. The usual cast of motley and none-too-bright teenagers is assembled and attached to quirky names--smartass Phineas (Jimmi Simpson) and his Goth-girl sister, October (Sophia Bush), hunky protagonist Hutch (Jon Foster), and tech-head Swink (Frankie Muniz), to name a few--and they all have one thing in common: the love of gaming. When Hutch's best friend Loomis (Milo Ventimiglia) is a victim in a violent massacre, Hutch ends up with the game he was playing just before he died. Called "Stay Alive," the game is technically illegal and Hutch and his friends can't resist booting it up. The game resurrects the Countess, who centuries ago was walled up in her tower when her crimes were discovered (she is said to have brutally murdered 650 servant girls and bathed in their blood). Now, she is fulfilling her vow to return to reassume her reign of terror. This time, however, her victims are gamers who will die in the same way in life as they do in the game.
The video game itself becomes a character in the film, showing off excellent 3-D, cinematic effects, and creating an effectively spooky atmosphere with a memorable, if derivative, aesthetic. The gore never escalates past PG-13 levels but the scare tactics are adept, while the Countess herself, with pasty skin and high-necked red dress, is a movie monster worthy of canonization.
The video game itself becomes a character in the film, showing off excellent 3-D, cinematic effects, and creating an effectively spooky atmosphere with a memorable, if derivative, aesthetic. The gore never escalates past PG-13 levels but the scare tactics are adept, while the Countess herself, with pasty skin and high-necked red dress, is a movie monster worthy of canonization.
Description by Buena Vista Home Entertainment:
Stay Alive
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.
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- Sales Rank: 32,665
- UPC: 786936709384
- Shipping Weight: 0.17/lbs (approx)
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