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2006
Unrated
Buena Vista Pictures
1 h 25 m

2006
Unrated
Buena Vista Pictures
1 h 25 m

Stay Alive

Summary After the mysterious brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of Stay Alive, a next generation horror survival videogame based on a spine-chilling true story. As the group begins to play the grisly game a chilling connection is made -- they are each being murdered one-by-one in the same method as ...

Directed By: William Brent Bell

Written By: Matthew Peterman, William Brent Bell

2006
Unrated
Buena Vista Pictures
1 h 25 m

2006
Unrated
Buena Vista Pictures
1 h 25 m

Stay Alive

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews

24

User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 167 User Ratings

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Summary After the mysterious brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of Stay Alive, a next generation horror survival videogame based on a spine-chilling true story. As the group begins to play the grisly game a chilling connection is made -- they are each being murdered one-by-one in the same method as ...

Directed By: William Brent Bell

Written By: Matthew Peterman, William Brent Bell

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews

0% Positive
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35% Mixed
6 Reviews

65% Negative
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Metascore

Generally Unfavorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews

0% Positive
0 Reviews

35% Mixed
6 Reviews

65% Negative
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Despite some hackneyed qualities, helmer William Brent Bell's good-looking if undistinguished cast and the seemingly fresh twist on an old tale should lure the usual fans of mayhem, murder and the medieval.

There's a gothic backstory to all this, which makes no sense but looks pretty cool.

By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 167 User Ratings

78% Positive
131 Ratings

11% Mixed
19 Ratings

10% Negative
17 Ratings

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Universal Acclaim Based on 167 User Ratings

78% Positive
131 Ratings

11% Mixed
19 Ratings

10% Negative
17 Ratings

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Aug 17, 2021

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The New York Times

The 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.

New York Daily News

There'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.

By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

San Francisco Chronicle

Works better as unintentional comedy than horror.

Entertainment Weekly

Videogames are no longer brainless, so why are videogame movies so slow to evolve?

Austin Chronicle

Stay Alive has none of the vicarious thrills of, say, "Konami: Silent Hill 2." It's barely even Pong unplugged.

By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW

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Jan 7, 2021

I think people that gave negative review did not understand the originality of the film. To me, Stay Alive is one of the best psicological horror I have ever seen...

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Jan 30, 2016

The acting was not that bad and the original concept was **** lack of blood and the fact that the movie is pretty boring at times just drag that movie down more than it should.Overall, it's a friday night movie to watch with friends and with low expectations.

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Feb 24, 2013

Stay Alive was decent, it was a unique story but still fairly predictable. It lacked a lot of the eye candy and cheesy jokes you expect in this type of film. I think the director was expecting people to take this seriously, but it's far from being the exorcist.

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Jun 12, 2011

Stay Alive did a better job then I thought it would but it left a whole lot of questions. One being why in the heck did an evil ghost woman come back in the form of a video game to kill people? This is never even addressed apparently she just looked down from her tower and said "well all the young kids are into the videa games I guess thats as good a way to kill them as any" The other thing is at the end how the game imitates real life. I just can't believe malcom in the middle drops a crow bar in the game and it appears in life. Another problem with the movie is who the hell named these people? With great names like Hutch, October, Swink and Phineus. This group of friends had the worst parents ever. Another issue was the romance between Abby and Hutch. It seemed very forced and really stupid. The last problem was after the characters figured out that if they die in the game they die in real life they make the logical choice to just stop playing the game. So the movie comes out and just says "no, you stop I will just play for you. Yeah that will work" Through out the movie it seemed very forced and just hard to believe. Not the worst horror movie around but there are far better options out there to watch instead.

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Jul 12, 2020

Boring, actors are bad choosen. You Can see the ending already at the beginning.

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Production Company Hollywood Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Endgame Entertainment, Wonderland Sound and Vision, Stay Alive

Release Date Mar 24, 2006

Duration 1 h 25 m

Rating Unrated

Genres

Tagline It's the game of life and death....

Website http://www.stayalive.ru/

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