Stay Alive
Play It To Death.
Play It To Death.
Horror
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2006
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After the brutal death of a friend, a group of friends play an underground video game based on a 17th-century noblewoman, only to discover that dying in the game results in their real-life death.
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Cast:
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Details
Runtime:
100 min
Release date:
24 Mar 2006
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$9,000,000
Revenue:
$27,105,095
Awards:
N/A
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
There's a gothic backstory to all this, which makes no sense but looks pretty cool.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
7 Mar 2007
rotten:
Teen fodder like this isn't known for sophistication or storytelling depth, but the filmmakers seem to take the film's video-game theme as permission to eschew even the horror genre's exceedingly lenient minimums for characterization.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
30 Mar 2006
rotten:
Videogames are no longer brainless, so why are videogame movies so slow to evolve?
– Gregory Kirschling,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Mar 2006
rotten:
An anemic attempt to update the horror genre's imperiled-teens-meet-bloodletting-uber-fiend substratum.
– John Anderson,
Variety,
28 Mar 2006
rotten:
It's unlikely that Stay Alive could ever have been a good movie in the traditional sense, but it might have been better if Bell and co-writer Matthew Peterman had done more to exploit their gaming premise.
– Neva Chonin,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Mar 2006