Wordiezett So much average

Luecarou What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

roscoe666 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.

SnoopyStyle Loomis Crowley beta-test video game Stay Alive with his friends Sarah and Rex. All three are killed with Loomis dying exactly the way he died in the game. Loomis' sister gives the game to his friend Hutch (Jon Foster). Hutch, his work friend Miller Banks (Adam Goldberg), brother and sister friends Phineus (Jimmi Simpson) and October (Sophia Bush), geeky Swink (Frankie Muniz) and Sarah's friend Abigail (Samaire Armstrong) play the game together. Miller is killed by the Countess Elizabeth Bathory in the game and she comes to kill him in real life. Police detectives Thibodeaux (Wendell Pierce) and King investigate. Phineus continues to play the game but leaves before getting killed. However the game plays by itself. He is killed in a freak accident like in the game. The remaining group tracks down the origins of the video game. Bathory had drained the blood of young women to bath in to maintain her youth. She was walled up alive in a tower on her plantation. Detective King plays the game and is killed. The cops are after the group and they all go on the run to battle Bathory.This reminds me of 'The Ring' plus the orderly killing sequence of 'Final Destination'. I like the idea of a real haunted horror video game. I like most of the actors in this movie. I want to like this movie more and I wish it was executed better. First of all, the kills are not bloody enough. The violence should be more gory and bloodier. Too much of it occurs off screen. The backstory is way too complicated. The movie tries to explain too much. It's better to leave it as something creepy killing them. I had a similar problem with 'The Ring' but this movie is much more severe. This movie starts with an interesting idea but the poor execution leaves a lot to be desired.

Neil Welch A group of youngsters playing a video game start being killed in the same way they die in the game. It is a race against time to find out how to save themselves.This movie is dressed up as a horror film in the Final Destination tradition, but it isn't. This is mainly because the deaths are pretty innocuous: yes, there is some blood, but nothing is especially graphic. Also, there is a reliance on "made you jump" noise rather than any actual horror.I didn't really mind this - the story powered along nicely, kept me interested, and the characters were fairly well drawn and sympathetic.A decent "entry level" horror-styled movie.

dwpollar 1st watched 3/19/2009 – 4 out of 10(Dir-William Brent Bill): Predictable, but fair scary flick using the old video game in a movie theme. In this one, the young victims – oops, I mean gameplayers – are introduced to a game called "Stay Alive" left by a deceased friend. Then, when they start playing it and die in the game – they end up dying in real life!! We find out later that a ghost of a witch killer is summoned when they first start the game by chanting a prayer and she starts taking charge in real life. This movie likes to startle viewers un-necessarily at silly points in the movie and this get old pretty quick. Other than this the movie is a watchable scary movie. The actors are OK, but nothing special and the story is pretty predictable(especially if you have read the back of the DVD box). The game within the movie is very similar to many of the scary/horror genre of video games currently out there where you have to kill all the un-dead zombie-like creatures before they kill you. It's kind of interesting the way they incorporate the game with the movie but it's not like it hasn't been done before. So, all in all, it's a pretty so-so movie and I've seen a lot of those so I can't recommend it, but it wasn't painful to get thru -- just not that special.