Sunday, November 14, 2010

Stay Alive (2006)

After a friend is murdered, his video game junkie friends decide to play an unreleased underground video which was the last thing he played before he died. The game involves exploring the castle of Elizabeth Bathory aka the Blood Countess, known for bathing in the blood of young girls. What the group doesn't realize is that if you die in the game, you die the same way in real life.

As the kids start dying, the police begin to suspect the survivors. Eventually the game starts playing itself and the survivors try to locate where on the plantation Bathory was walled into a tower and left to die. How lucky that live live near the plantation because otherwise they'd most certainly be doomed.

While Bathory was a real person, the story is not historically accurate and the setting for her home is the US, not Transylvania. But I guess we can't have the kids trying to figure out how to get overseas, can we.

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