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Summary: After the mysterious brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of Stay Alive, a next generation horror survival videogame based on a spine-chilling true story. As the group begins to play the grisly game a chilling connection is made -- they are each being murdered one-by-one in the same method as the character they played in the game. As the line between the game world and the real world disappears, the group must find a way to STAY ALIVE. (Hollywood Pictures)
This movie tries hard to come up with fresh concepts for a tragically stale genre. While this attempt is noble, the movie ultimately fails from an incredibly non-suspenseful atmosphere and poorly contrived plot. Also, the current media portrayal of a "video game nerd" is both insulting and unsatisfying to watch. Ugh.
Not bad and a rather enjoyable Horror film that hasn't really been done before (lets face it a 'killer video game' sure is something new). Good cast and characters and a reasonable storyline with some pretty cool death scenes and blood and gore here and there. Nothing really stands out as being memorable though and while the idea is fresh, it doesn't really bring anything exciting to the genre. Overall Horror fans will probably get a kick out it so its worth a look if you're a fan of Horror.
the general idea wasn't even that bad. somewhat like nightmare on elm street with a computer game instead of the dream-theme. ok...now that i read it, even the idea was pretty bad.
A sorta good idea mixed with some terrible acting , bad pacing and a cliched-to-bits story ( and the kills?) , ends up being a sorta enjoyable horror movie with nothing new. Tho the game they're playing does look sorta cool. but that would be the only thing. Only for the die hard fans of the genre
You'd think, with the films concept, that the writers and directors would know their stuff about games, but it only takes one watch of the Silent Hill conversation to realise they haven't got a fucking clue. That level of intelligence and logic is carried throughout the entire film too.
Current horror films have trouble at being original, but Stay Alive manages to come up with an interesting concept while the actual film is not that interesting. Still there are some very good moments and there are many worse horro movies out there.