It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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.

After playing a cursed video game, a group of friends find themselves dying in the real world the way they did in the game and must unlock the secrets of the real figure at the center of it to stop the deaths from continuing.This here was quite an enjoyable and highly entertaining effort. One of the better elements of this one is the utterly freaky atmosphere throughout here, which is highly impressive at making this far more chilling than it deserves to be. This starts with the opening play- through of the game for the first time where this one shows off the plantation setting and survival horror tactics leading into the recreation attack which is really creepy enough, as well as the different manners of his one featuring her image tormenting the gang while they're no playing the game. A lot of these elements are furthered as well by the implementations of the real-life figure here with the mansion-house housing her being based on the actual mansion, the use of the flowers and her black horse-drawn carriage being taken right from the real person and it manages to get so much right about the history and legacy throughout the course of the game-play that it brings about the great sense of fear here about the growing realization that the game is coming to life against them. This brings the action into play here with this one having some solid confrontations in the plantation being driving by the game-play, using help in the game to provide the tactics necessary to survive in the real world and bring about plenty of absolutely frantic action in the race to get her free after being captured along the way. This also gets quite fun here with the absolutely enjoyable finale as the battle in the bedroom nicely mirrors the game-play held below in the dungeon and the burning-down-the-tower finale is utilized for great effect finishing this one on a high note. There's a few minor flaws at play here, which really begins with the main character herself for as much good as it is in most respects there's a part of history it gets wrong. The century and location-switch are the most obvious though there are other, smaller features about it that don't really follow throughout. As well, it's a rather large leap here in the storyline about the discovery of the main figure tormenting them, as not only is there very little need for them to investigate that character based on the game-play being the first time it had happened, but they believe it with flimsy connections at the time and very little investigative work anyway. This is easily the biggest flaw here and hurts this one the most along with the tame-ness due to the rating in the kills. Otherwise, this one is quite entertaining.Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and brief drug use.

This tries to mix the Final Destination formula into the gamer community. It doesn't really succeed. Apart from aging faster than a dayfly (that's especially accurate for the "special game effects"), the story does not give you that much. Plus it is cheating and you can ask any gamer about that. It is an absolute no go! Story is also predictable, where you can see the characters fate a mile off. While it tries to stay on the logical side of things (as much as possible), even that cannot be achieved entirely. The movie did not have a large budget (obviously), so you might be willing to cut it some slack. Especially because it did achieve to cast Mr. Muniz (who's better known for his TV character) here. But that is up to you, how low you want to put the bar.

Stay Alive is a horror film in where the main gimmick is that there is a video game where if you die in, you die in real life. That seems like it would've been a remake of some obscure Japanese horror flick....well it's not. I feel like this movie got a bad rep because it came out during a time when Hollywood attempted to cash in on PG-13 Horror films. If anyone saw the theatrical version, and the uncut version side by side, you'd know your missing out on a lot. A. Lot. Let me warn everyone first off all. Though this may be a horror film, it's not terrifying at all. There is a sense of dread during the whole film, but no real sense of terror. All in all, this movie is a very fun movie. It's one the most cheesiest horror films I've seen for a while. All the actors play their stereotypical characters perfectly. All the kills are very bloody, though there is a bit of CGI (IF you watched the Uncut version.) The video game scenes are amazing. I kind of wished at times that there would be a few more video games scenes since they were made so well. This movie is a great B-movie. If you like B-movies, then yeah...watch it.