Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

roscoe666 Elisabeth Bathory (mispronounced throughout) is after 'teens' when they play a noughties computer game, and apparently, she lived in America (as opposed to Romania).A bit like watching a childrens' tv 'drama', with absolutely no violence, no scares and nothing much of interest either.Whereas it is fast moving, mercifully short and has a reasonable budget, there is nothing much to see here.I can only summise that other reviewers giving rave reviews are about 12, its target audience.

Maz Murdoch (asda-man) Stay Alive is yet another contrived slasher that offers nothing new but the same formulaic pattern with a bunch of clichéd losers ho we don't care about at all. Just like "The Cabin in the Woods" set out we've got the virgin/s, the scholar, the whore, the jock and the fool/s. The only thing original about them is their names. One girl's called October and one boy is even called Twink! Now hats off to the writers, they've actually tried to do something new in the form of playing a game that is cursed. It's an interesting concept and sort of a disc version of "The Ring" but they get it completely wrong from the off. What made "The Ring" successful was the simplicity of the tape. It had mystery surrounded by it that wasn't obvious by first glance. It was creepy and absolutely right. Imagine if that video was a DVD that showed an all-action blockbuster. It wouldn't be the same would it? Instead of creating a simple creepy game that didn't give anything away, they've created a full-on game with high graphics that couldn't be found creepy at all and sometimes even completely takes you out of the film. It's like watching someone playing a PS3. It's just wrong! They also map everything out about the mystery by creating the clichéd haunted mansion, exactly like the real one, so it's obvious what the finale's going to be.In fact the entire film is predictable. You can predict who is going to die first and which couple end up at the end. No prizes for guessing that it's the wholesome virgins who make it! It's not even an entertaining ride getting there like "The Breed" was. It's just dull and uninvolving and offers little thrills due to the poor editing and directing during the 'suspenseful' parts. All of the suspense is sucked out because of the awful character development and flashy editing. It's also very unfocused up until the final 10 minutes or so, but by then you don't even care what happens to them.Stay Alive is an attempt at trying something different but it was gone about in the completely wrong way. Even the death scenes weren't fun as most of them were off-screen and weren't creative in the slightest. There's nothing we haven't seen here before. It's a clichéd ghost story put in a stereotypical slasher and it's not as much fun as it sounds. A dull, pointless and silly horror film that will only have the under thirteens jumping for joy.

Ocrisia I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. As a gamer, a HUGE fan of survival horror games (Silent Hill especially), and someone who absolutely loves supernatural horror, I thought this movie had the potential to be like a dream, or nightmare, come true. Unfortunately, the writers of the movie must not really be into gaming, and even that would be okay if the movie creators actually did a little research. Stay Alive is a beta version of a computer game, Frankie Muniz uses an alienware laptop, but it's played with playstation controllers (I think-at least its a PS controller on the movie cover). The tester plays the game with a couple of friends, and if you die in the game, you die for real. (I even found the tag line of the movie annoying.."you die in the game, you die for real" sounds too much like a nightmare on elm st's +you die in your dreams, you die for real.")I was disappointed in this movie in the first ten minutes. The main character, Hutch, works as some kind of clerk in an office. His boss calls him in to ask advice on the game he's playing, Silent Hill 4. He needs to know how to beat the last boss. Hutch tells him to "dop the hyperblaster-it has unlimited ammo but drop it anyway-then go down the stairs to the boss, and she'll just die. First of all, no last boss just dies when you do nothing. Second of all, there is no hyperblaster in SH4. Finally, the last boss in SH4 is a man, not a woman. I realize I may sound like a nerd, but I honestly think if you're going to make a movie about a survival horror game and you want to reference a game, at the very least wikipedia it first.So anyway Hutch ends up with Stay Alive, and he gets together with some gamer friends and one girl who has never played anything before, and they all play. These are supposed to be serious gamers. So at one point Hutch's character is standing in a room with a fireplace and a closet, and there's a GLOWING LIGHT coming out of the closet and the door is ajar. Pretty obvious you'd think.. but he doesn't see it. The girl who had never played a game before goes "wait! wait! the wardrobe!' to which Hutch responds "NICE eye!!!!" The friends then praise her for noticing the completely obvious hidden room. If he's a serious gamer and he didn't know to check the door with the glowing light coming out of it..he should find a new hobby.Besides silly things like that though, the movie isn't all bad. I wouldn't call it scary, but it was a cool idea. The story wasn't explained as well as I would have liked, and there were some things left unanswered (I noticed people saying they never said who made the game, but they did) for example, the cops were looking to arrest Hutch bc he knew all the murder victims. When the cops show up at the house his friends are hanging out in, they run (Nevermind that Hutch had an alibi for all the murders, apparently knowing people is all it takes to be thrown in jail.) and at the end of the movie, I guess the cops just give up? There were a few loose ends that were kind of annoying. Altogether though it's worth a watch. The idea was solid, the game scenes weren't bad, and if this actually comes out as a game, I would definitely play it. As a gamer it offended me a little, but as a horror movie fan I liked it, because it was a unique idea and hasn't been done to death. Overall I'm glad I watched it, but I don't think I would sit through it again.

Neil Welch A group of youngsters playing a video game start being killed in the same way they die in the game. It is a race against time to find out how to save themselves.This movie is dressed up as a horror film in the Final Destination tradition, but it isn't. This is mainly because the deaths are pretty innocuous: yes, there is some blood, but nothing is especially graphic. Also, there is a reliance on "made you jump" noise rather than any actual horror.I didn't really mind this - the story powered along nicely, kept me interested, and the characters were fairly well drawn and sympathetic.A decent "entry level" horror-styled movie.