Stay Alive - The Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition)
by William Brent Bell
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Actor: Frankie Muniz, Jimmi Simpson, Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Wendell PierceDirector: William Brent Bell
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Hollywood
Movie Reviews of Stay Alive - The Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: ok call me crazy but....
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought this movie was actually pretty good. It wasn't great overall, but it was good in a way that most horror movies these days aren't. (For example, the re-make of Black Christmas, the new Prom Night...etc) and although there are definitely some ridiculous parts, its not the kind of horror movie that makes you wanna laugh out loud from the pure stupidity of it all.
And sure, the storyline isn't exactly original, as it follows along the typical plot of ghosts or whatever, killing people from some type of media advice (such as "The Ring" where people get killed after viewing a movie, "Pulse" where ghost type thingies are created through the internet, etc...) but still.
In this movie, a group of friends who enjoy playing video games, come across a certain game that kills them in the exact way that their characters die in the game itself, and can't even stop playing the game, because if they do, the game will play by itself for them. Now that is a bit ridiculous, ill admit, but the movie is well done, and entertaining, and the game in the movie actually looks really awesome, and I think it should become an actual game (without the part where it kills you of course!)
Plus there's a great story behind the video game, and even though the ending of the movie was pretty typical, I was satisfied with it.
Summary of Stay Alive - The Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition)
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 ShannonIN THEATERS MARCH 24 2006 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.System Requirements:Runtime: 85 minutes Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: PG-13 UPC: 786936709384 Manufacturer No: 05102600
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