Review: Stay Alive

I originally went to this movie thinking it was a remake of that John Travolta 70's movie. Boy is my face red! Nope. Found out it was a horror movie about this video game featuring Elizabeth Bathory. OH, no, not the European Elizabeth Bathory who bathed in virgin's blood to stay eternally young. No, this is about the New Orleans Elizabeth Bathory who ran a finishing school for young virgins . . . I mean girls and then was walled up in her tower for brutally killing them all. I never knew!

Anywhoo, once the main characters (all teenagers who, by the way, made up the majority of the audience in our theater) start playing this game, Stay Alive, they find out that if you die in the game you will die in real life - IN THE EXACT SAME MANNER! Eaten by rabid weasels in the game? - hey, I wouldn't want to be you in real life!!! Most normal people would say, "All righty, then I'm just gonna quit playin' the game now, K? Thank you very much" Ah, but that saucy Elizabeth is right with you. If you don't play, the game plays itself and kills you anyway. No bueno!

So, the main characters wind up at Elizabeth's real finishing school in New Orleans (Pre Katrina I'm sure) and have to defeat her in real life and in the video game at the same time. That Part of the movie is kinda cool.

All in all, it could have been a whole lot worse. Someone actually did a little work on a plot in this one though no actual research on Elizabeth it would seem. There was not a whole lot of gore which is what a lot of horror movies seem to rely on nowadays so kudos to them for that. If I were you, though I would wait for this one to come out on DVD and rent it one night when there is nothing else to do.

Rating: 5 out of 10 bananas
Best Part: They don't have to worry about critics saying the SFX looked like a video game because, guess what, it was!
Worst Part: When something bad was going to happen, they played this weird farty noise that just made me laugh.