Stay Alive

Pros: Some unusual plot devices...
Cons: Really bad acting, bad writing, no actual scary elements...

Video games in movies don't have a great track record. All the way back to Tron, the plot device has been a failure. In recent years we've seen the creation and destruction of games like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Doom, and BloodRayne. ...

Pros: Cool killer-videogame concept, great first-person sequences.
Cons: Extremely bad acting, script has problems, boring.

I love videogames. I love horror movies. So what a better idea than creating a videogame that if you play it and die in it for real, you die in real life? It's been a dream I'm sure for many gamers and movie-goers for people like those that made Stay ...

Pros: A great idea...
Cons: ...That was hacked to bits.

Stay Alive (2006) Directed by William Brent BellCome to me, clouds. May you rise as an evil storm born to rip them open. Let the cover of night bear witness and destroy those who resist so they shall harm me not. Let the blood of many ...

Pros: Creepiness worthy of Lovecraft
Cons: Borrowed plot, unimaginitive dialogue

A girlfriend of mine and I rented this movie recently. We were expecting something a little startling with some blood, some body parts, but nothing that would really frighten us. We're horror movie buffs, she and I, so it takes more than latex ...

Pros: Getting more people to read about Elizabeth Bathory.
Cons: Everything else about the movie.

Milo Ventimiglia from TV's "Gilmore Girls" stumbles upon this underground video game called "Stay Alive" that eventually gets him hung and killed. Then his friends, including Sophia Bush from TV's "One Tree Hill" and Samaire Armstrong from season one of ...

Pros: Superb casting, the faux video game makes me want to see a real version.
Cons: Writers could have done better Bathory research and got the historical part right.

What do you get when you cross video games and a faux legend of the blood countess, Elizabeth Bathory? You get an edge of your seat movie with an wonderfully brilliant cast as you follow their love, loss and fears throughout a video game that will leave ...

Pros: One of the best ideas for a movie in a long time. 
Cons: I thought that the acting in this movie could have been a lot better.

   In my widest dreams I never thought I would ever see a movie like this, the very thought of a movie based on in order to stay alive is to not dying in a video game, how wonderful of a concept is that. Each and every death ...

Pros: some of the actor weren't bad looking
Cons: unbelieveable characters, bad plot, more stupid than scary

Four words: total waste of time.

I can't believe I wasted an hour and fourty one minutes of my life for this movie. When I first saw the previews, it seemed interesting. But now, after seeing it, its anything but. If I wasn't curious about whether or not they all died, I wouldn't have watched the entire thing.

Its the modern suspense/horror clique curse where the characters are very unbelieveable, the plot is uninteresting and just reeks in general, and the movie itself just isn't scary. Don't waste your time. Life is too short to waste it on a bad movie.

Pros: Everything
Cons: nothing!

I first saw this movie on HBO and I loved it. The movie is creepy, suspenseful, and of course, great! I was looking through the TV guide and I saw it was on. I caught it right as it was starting. I was hooked, watching it again and again. I just can't get enough of it! Its about a bunch of teens who play a game, and when you die in the game you die in real life, and eventually they find the main character in the storyline, and they have to kill her again. IN REAL LIFE. I would recommend this to everyone!
There really isn't anything wrong with this movie, it was really awesome! The only bad thing is that once you watch it, you will want to see it again and again!

Pros: Plot and the acting
Cons: Not scary enough for me

The overall plot was unique. overall I did enjoy the movie. Was it scary, maybe, but for me no. The acting was good. I would recommend this one, if you like scary movies and/or role playing video games.