VenturousArtist Stay Alive has innovative concepts but the inability to commit catering to its presumed demographic by not sustaining coherency or scares and being outright misleading. It follows a group of flawed companions not sharing enough chemistry while being haunted by an unknown entity. Audiences are expected to serve them sympathy but only few are given enough time to be properly introduced or evolve.The film primarily focuses having elongated eerie scenery, unsympathetic drama, missing and confusing elements, and outright senseless censorship. It's an unsettling original horror film that's terribly disjointed with a horrific identity crisis and doesn't properly execute its ideas. Some characters foolishly endanger themselves, scenes pilled with nonsense becomes repetitive and exhausting to watch, and its main narrative fails to convincing.It's an unfinished and shallow game for shallow impressionable gamers.

zombiefan89 It was...bad. However, bear in mind. It's a PG-13 movie. So, don't expect any blood or gore. Being a slasher film...it was doomed from the start. First off, the acting. This is by far Frankie Muniz's worst role. I can't begin to comprehend his logic in choosing this role. Oh...God... He's...just NOT meant the play the knowledgeable one. The script needed to be burned. On to the plot. It's pretty much if .hack was a slasher film, only...far, far worse. Dying in the game equals dying in real life... Um, so don't play it? Destroy the game? On the other hand, the game's graphics resemble a Sims 2, Silent Hill 3 hybrid, which isn't bad by any means. I would have played it in 2006, but World of Warcraft had already eaten my soul by then, but I noticed, one of the characters "paused" the game! How the heck do you pause an online game? Another plot hole, games are a pain in the you know what to make. They require hours, days, even weeks or years of beta testing before they're released. Wouldn't some of the programmers have died, and the game would have never been remotely finished? Bottom line. It's a PG-13 slasher flick with a paper thin plot. There are good PG-13 horror movies, but this isn't one of them.

JCDsGurl93 i loved it i don't care what anyone says i would love to play this game if it was real. i absolutely would play the game. i loved the movie if you don't like it then grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! it didn't really scare me but i still liked it. i have a weird sense of humor so i laughed all the way through it. i laugh whenever someone dies in movies, well if they are stupid. if they died of a disease or something then i don't laugh because i have a heart. but other than that i laugh because its funny when people die in movies. my review of this movie is it was a really good tense movie it wasn't to scary but it wasn't to plain either.

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.