Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Python Hyena Stay Alive (2006): Dir: William Brent Bell / Cast: Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Sophia Bush, Jimmi Simpson: Irritating horror film about video game violence. Lame plot regards illegal video game that kills its players the very method that instrumented their death in the game. This is all too ridiculous yet it could have worked had it been presented beyond juvenile level of intelligence. There is even a nauseating sound that accompanies the danger that is about as scary as breaking wind. Director William Brent Bell plays with the notion of video game violence and its influence but his screenwriter wallows in stupid horror film clichés that ultimately reduce the film to a joke. The cast basically wait until it's their turn to die, and we don't care because the screenwriter's only ambitious is on how creative a death scene can be. If that is a horror film's prime ambitious then it's game over from the get go. Jon Foster plays the hero who has a fear of fire, which indicates that he will have to face this fear. Samaire Armstrong is pointless as a photographer who appears at the opening funeral. Frankie Muniz can do better than this, and Sophia Bush is there because she is dressed goth. It doesn't matter because these characters are only assembled for a graphic death warrant. Worthy theme derailed within a laughable film that makes it difficult to stay awake. Score: 4 / 10

SnoopyStyle Loomis Crowley beta-test video game Stay Alive with his friends Sarah and Rex. All three are killed with Loomis dying exactly the way he died in the game. Loomis' sister gives the game to his friend Hutch (Jon Foster). Hutch, his work friend Miller Banks (Adam Goldberg), brother and sister friends Phineus (Jimmi Simpson) and October (Sophia Bush), geeky Swink (Frankie Muniz) and Sarah's friend Abigail (Samaire Armstrong) play the game together. Miller is killed by the Countess Elizabeth Bathory in the game and she comes to kill him in real life. Police detectives Thibodeaux (Wendell Pierce) and King investigate. Phineus continues to play the game but leaves before getting killed. However the game plays by itself. He is killed in a freak accident like in the game. The remaining group tracks down the origins of the video game. Bathory had drained the blood of young women to bath in to maintain her youth. She was walled up alive in a tower on her plantation. Detective King plays the game and is killed. The cops are after the group and they all go on the run to battle Bathory.This reminds me of 'The Ring' plus the orderly killing sequence of 'Final Destination'. I like the idea of a real haunted horror video game. I like most of the actors in this movie. I want to like this movie more and I wish it was executed better. First of all, the kills are not bloody enough. The violence should be more gory and bloodier. Too much of it occurs off screen. The backstory is way too complicated. The movie tries to explain too much. It's better to leave it as something creepy killing them. I had a similar problem with 'The Ring' but this movie is much more severe. This movie starts with an interesting idea but the poor execution leaves a lot to be desired.

Aaron1375 This movie could have been really good, it had a nice premise and I liked that the reason behind the killings was a supernatural force. However, what failed in this film is the execution. It was sloppily done, and it failed to be so bad that it was good and funny. It was to weak in the killings, for some reason trying to pull in a PG-13 rating rather than going for the throat and just making the movie have more of an edge. The story is interesting though as a gamer I enjoyed the idea of a game where if you die in it, you die in real life. The game itself is the title of the movie as well, it did not look like anything special though as it looked like at the most it would be an hour or two worth of game play. Heck there is only a mansion that is not particularly big, a graveyard and a tower. The actors in the film are pretty good and they do seem to act like your typical social gamer. The murders is a bit light as most of the action takes place off screen. The killer is weak as well as it does in fact look like something that came from a video game, which may look okay in said game, but not in a movie. This movie is just so much of a mixed bag, cool concept badly done. This movie also features a pointless plot point of the cops suspecting one of the gamers as the murderer and it just does not work because near the end the officers just vanish. The death of the one officer was rather poorly done too as it was obvious the cop did not play the game long enough to get to the point he was at. The one gamer mentioned that the game moved rather slowly so it is highly unlikely he could catch up with the others in what amounted to maybe two minutes of game playing. Still a little work here and there and this one could have been a pretty good horror movie. There is a slight resemblance to another horror movie "Dead Silence" too, though that movie is a bit more complete and rated R like a horror show ought too.

H_Spengler Here I finally get around to writing a review on this horrible movie, 3 years after wasting and hour and a half of my life watching it in the theater.I hate this movie. There's no other way to put it. I've read some reviews on here that stated gamers will like it, well, I know plenty of gamers, and it's their general consensus that it's an insult to gamers everywhere. This enormous waste of money & time sports a group of gamers, all of whom start dying in "innovative" ways from playing a game and dying like their characters in the game do. To top it off, they've incorporated the true legend of Countess Bathory as her evil spirit is somehow alive, inhabiting this game and her blood lust cannot be satisfied unless she's picking off another bad teenage actor/actress every five minutes. Give me a break. This movie is not only insulting to it's audience, it's insulting to history as well.Not to mention it's rated PG-13, so anything horrifying occurs off screen and is left to your imagination. Be aware of the game haunting you! What a joke. I probably should've written this sooner as it's been a long time since I saw it, and remember little else about it except that it sucked. I do however, remember being mad at my now ex for dragging me to see it, and for shelling out the hard earned money for the ticket. 0/10