| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Adam Goldberg |
Miller
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| Jon Foster |
Hutch MacNeil
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| Sophia Bush |
October Bantum
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| James Haven |
Jonathan Malkus
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| Maria Kalinina |
Countess
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| Billy Louviere |
Fidget
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| Jim Bishop |
Mr. Crowley
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| Samaire Armstrong |
Abigail
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Horror; Thriller |
| Director |
William Brent Bell |
| Producer |
Gary Barber; Roger Birnbaum |
| Writer |
William Brent Bell; Matthew Peterman |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
85 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| 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 |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
16 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Links |
Amazon US
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| Product Details |
| Format |
Theatrical Release |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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