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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

Leofwine_draca A dull and generic teen horror film, aimed squarely at the PG-13 crowd. This one has a dumb premise to begin with: a bunch of kids end up playing an online horror game. When their characters die in-game, they end up dying in real life. Now, with the right people behind it this could have been an arresting survival horror with an interesting slant on mankind's increasing reliance on computer technology for both business and pleasure. It isn't, and you end up thinking that playing the game featured in-film would be a more interesting experience.The characters are bland and dull, the type you'll forget about just minutes after they stop appearing on screen. There isn't a single person you get behind and want to see make it till the end (bringing in safe, popular TV actor Frankie Muniz doesn't help, either). The antagonist in the film is Countess Elizabeth Bathory, although she's a virtual representation of the character, which means the CGI animators don't have to worry about making her look realistic (instead she looks pretty crappy, like a ghost in a bad GRUDGE rip-off). The deaths are derivative and bloodless, and any attempts at suspense are negated by the overly familiar nature of the storyline. My advice is to give this one a miss.

Paul Andrews Stay Alive is set in Louisiana & starts late one night as Loomis Crowley (Milo Ventimiglia) plays a demo version of a new horror survival computer game called Stay Alive based around the legend of killer Countess Elizabeth Bathory, Loomis becomes engrossed in the game but his character soon dies by being hanged. Back in reality Loomis is shocked to find two of his friends murdered & he also ends up dead, hanging from a light cable from the ceiling just like in the game. A close friend of Loomis named Hutch (Jon Foster) is devastated by the death of his friend & meets Abigail (Samaire Armstrong) at the funeral & the two comfort each other, while at the funeral Hutch is given some games belonging to Loomis including Stay Alive. Hutch & some of his friends decide to pay homage to Loomis & have a marathon session on Stay Alive but it soon becomes clear that the game is haunted & that if your character dies in the game you die exactly the same way in reality...Co-written & directed by William Brent Bell this is available in two distinct & different versions, the first is the PG rated theatrical cut & an Unrated director's cut on DVD which runs fifteen minutes longer & includes more gore, more profanity, more nudity & more story. Unfortunately I saw this on telly & they played the shorter PG version so that's the one I will be basing my comment on, I am sure the Unrated cut is better but what can I do? Anyway, a lot of recent horror films have been based upon video games like Silent Hill, Resident Evil & House of the Dead but Stay Alive takes a slightly different approach & bases it's story around a spooky video game called Stay Alive. The premise is rather silly when you sit down & think about it, the ghost of a centuries old murderer is resurrected by a video game & kills anyone who plays it. It sounds silly & to be honest it is but the script takes itself extremely seriously, the dialogue is quite stiff & as a whole the film is rather drab & hard to relate to. The character's are all clichéd Hollywood teens, the death's in the PG version are tame & mostly off screen while the Stay Alive game itself doesn't even look that good. Also what about the ending? The ending in which Hutch & Abigail were meant to have stopped the ghost only for it turn up just before the end credits, that makes everything Hutch & Abigail did during the last thirty minutes totally pointless & for nothing. Also the subplot with the police is completely dropped by the hour mark too, I suppose it moves along at a decent pace & the almost comical premise could have had potential but the tameness of it doesn't help neither does serious tone.There are various cutaway scenes of the game in action, as I said I don't thin it even looks like a particularly good game but then again what do I know. While Countess Elizabeth Bathory was indeed a real person who bathed in human blood to stop herself ageing during the 17 Century in Hungary but the script here says she lived in the 19th Century in a Louisiana plantation & therefore totally ignoring any historic fact. Why keep the Bathory name but change just about every other know fact her?Apparently shot in 25 days just before hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans this had a supposed budget of about $9,000,000 & has decent enough production values & is well made if a little overblown at times, a bit more subtlety might have helped some of the scarier moments. The acting is alright, nothing amazing but the teen cast do OK.Stay Alive isn't a great film, this PG version has no gore & the whole concept is rather silly & outlandish with no explanation behind who made the game & not much more about why Bathory is haunting a video game. Silly & dumb but at least it's short & I would think that the UNrated version is much, much better.

reconnect Hey guys, I am just watching the Movie and I thought I add a comment in my cigarette break. Anyways, I think its a brilliant movie. Esppecially, if you are a gamer. For those people saying its "not, actually scary", I think they aren't passionated gamer like I am. Anyway also I kind of think that movie is based of the movie "Ring", but instead of watching a Movie and getting killed, you play a game instead. That's why I think its quite more interesting and enjoyable. So I rate the game with 10 out of 10.You seriously should play a game after you watched that movie and you'll see that you seriously don't want to die.Greatings from England