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There's a gothic backstory to all this, which makes no sense but looks pretty cool.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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Stay Alive
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- William Brent Bell Director
- Jon Foster as Hutch
- Samaire Armstrong as Abigail
- Frankie Muniz as Swink
- Sophia Bush as October
- Jimmi Simpson as Phineus
- Adam Goldberg as Miller Banks
- Wendell Pierce as Detective Thibodeaux
- Milo Ventimiglia as Loomis Crowley
- Billy Slaughter as Rex
- Nicole Oppermann as Sarah
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
12%
Tomatometer
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
Rotten
Videogames are no longer brainless, so why are videogame movies so slow to evolve?
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
An anemic attempt to update the horror genre's imperiled-teens-meet-bloodletting-uber-fiend substratum.
John Anderson, Variety
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
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