STAY
ALIVE
With
Jon
Foster,
Samaire
Armstrong,
Frankie
Muniz,
Jimmi
Simpson,
Milo
Ventimiglia
Directed
by William
Brent
Bell
Teen
horror
flicks
are
indeed
a dime
a dozen,
and
far
too
often
cannibalize
over-used
narratives
of torture.
The
latter
theme
does
play
a role
here,
but
in a
bit
of a
different
capacity
than
expected.
Here
we get
the
fusion
of an
age
old
legend
/ myth
/ historic
figure,
and
modern
technology.
A kid
and
his
friends
die
in exactly
the
same
way
as they
do in
the
pre-released
video
game
they
got
their
hands
on.
The
game’s
lead
villain
is that
of countess
Bathory,
the
woman
who
killed
dozens
of girls
to bathe
in their
blood
for
eternal
youth
(a theme
which
also
got
a vivid
scene
in Eli
Roth’s
Hostel
II).
One
of the
dead
kid’s
best
pal
attends
his
fallen
gamer
buddy’s
funeral
and
the
guy’s
sister
gives
him
his
games,
with
it Stay
Alive,
the
Bathory
game.
With
a huddle
of avid
gaming
friends,
they
hook
up a
multi-player
set-up
to check
out
this
underground
delicacy.
When
one
of them
ends
up dead
and
they
realize
that’s
how
he died
in the
game,
they
discover
the
first
bunch
of corpses
also
shared
their
game
fates.
They
literally
have
to stay
alive
in the
game
to stay
alive
for
real,
while
trying
to get
to the
bottom
of this
sick
joke
–
perhaps
they
shouldn’t
have
read
the
incantation
as they
were
instructed
at the
game’s
start!
With
several
inventive
deaths
and
a good
film
saving
technique
by using
video
graphic
screen
time,
Stay
Alive
is a
pretty
entertaining
little
flick.
Also
features
a good
musical
score
by John
Frizzell
(Alien
Resurrection),
and
Malcolm
In The
Middle
star
Frankie
Muniz.
DVD
extras:
director’s
commentary
and
visual
effects
montage.
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