Product Information
Product Details: Stay Alive (2006)
- Edition:
- DVD Unrated Director's Extended Cut. See other editions
- MPAA Rating:
- PG-13
- Release Date:
- 09/19/2006
- UPC:
- 786936709384
- Directed by:
- Brent Bell
- Featuring:
- Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz. See all cast
Synopsis: Stay Alive (2006)
Synopis: 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.
User Reviews: Stay Alive
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, January 6, 2007
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Pros: nice screens & casting
Cons: boring screenplay
You die in the game, you die for real...so try to stay alive... This title make u really wanna see that movie? Well, it's better 4u to see it wit sum friends incase you may fall asleep ^^. But it's still attractive, atleast for the images, pretty as the blogskin, and you will see Sophia Bush wit a really strange style and i must say that it's not suit her at all while i'm happy to see Frankie Muniz still young as ever :P..and the movie also has a happy-ending, like any fairytale-movie for kids ^^, so i wonder is it a real horror movie :D ...