
Loomis Crowley is testing the underground game Stay Alive with his friends Sarah and Rex. When the game is over, Loomis finds Rex and Sarah dead in their room, and he is pushed by a shadow from the staircase, breaking the banister and hanging the same way he died in the game. Loomis' sister, Emma, gives his game to his best friend, Hutch. They, and his friends Miller, Phineus with his sister October, Swink and Abigail play the game together. When Miller and Phineus die the sa... (Full plot summary below)
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Loomis Crowley is testing the underground game Stay Alive with his friends Sarah and Rex. When the game is over, Loomis finds Rex and Sarah dead in their room, and he is pushed by a shadow from the staircase, breaking the banister and hanging the same way he died in the game. Loomis' sister, Emma, gives his game to his best friend, Hutch. They, and his friends Miller, Phineus with his sister October, Swink and Abigail play the game together. When Miller and Phineus die the same way they died in the game, the survivors disclose that the game is based on the life of the evil Countess Elizabeth Bathory. She was buried alive in the tower of her real state in the Geronge Plantation. With the police chasing them, and after the death of October, the survivors reach the house and try to find the corpse of the Countess to destroy her fiend.
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| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttA passable horror-thriller for the young crowd, assuming a movie can lure them away from PlayStations. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghHorror buffs looking for a novel twist on genre formulas should look elsewhere, but this body-count potboiler about a sinister video game and the poor dopes who make the mistake of playing it is the movie equivalent of junk food: It's not good, but it's predictable and even satisfying, in a low-expectations way. |
| The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe star of Stay Alive is a cutting-edge video game, but the film still has hackneyed horror at its heart. And worse, it's not even the stylishly, wittily executed hackneyed horror of the "Scream" movies. |
| Los Angeles TimesJohn AndersonStay Alive spends a lot of time inside the video game system, and what will terrify the audience very early on is the realization that there's better acting in the video game than on the big screen. |
| Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThere's a gothic backstory to all this, which makes no sense but looks pretty cool. |
| Boston GlobeJames ParkerAlways the way in horror flicks: These first scenes, when the characters are being tenderly established and the concept is still young, are the best. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThere's a fascinating and terrifying story to be told about Elizabeth Bathory, the dramatically depraved 17th century sadist known as the Blood Countess.....This ain't it. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason AndersonHere's a movie that tries to be a video game but is less entertaining than a vending machine. |
| Film ThreatFelix Vasques Jr.I never really expected something so utterly lame-brained. Though, the film is not as awful as I've heard, it's quite possibly the laziest script I've ever seen. |
| San Francisco ChronicleNeva ChoninWorks better as unintentional comedy than horror. |