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Stay Alive
Posted on October 16, 2007
Filed Under Tom's Reviews
Ah Ah Ah Ah Stay Alive, Stay Alive. That famous line from that Beegee’s classic and the title of an underground survival horror game that unfortunately kills you in real life if you die in the game. Apparently. It seems like a recipe for disaster when infact quite frankly it works.
Being a bit of a computer game fanatic myself it relished the fact that I could watch geeks playing games for an hour and a half. Within minutes I thought my girlfriend would be fast asleep when infact we were both enjoying it…
This is definitely not a typical Hollywood horror. What I have come to expect from the standard American horror is an appaulingly weak, overdone storyline (one killer, one house, a few lost best friends), with copious amounts of gore in an effort to conceal all the problems.
Stay alive is definitely not the most self-involved horror I have ever seen. It’s light hearted fun at its best. Seeing Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle, getting chased down by a Lady in Red (Chris de Burgh anyone?) in horse drawn carriage was surprisingly unnerving. Infact, almost every character death managed to strum up some form of emotion in me; even if not the exact emotion always expected.
Stay alive is a fresh fun horror, with a storyline to match. Definitely original in my mind.
The film was cast reasonably well, with Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle playing the geeky kid Swinkz. As per every other horror out there, there was an excessively annoying Blonde girl, the type that makes you shout “Shut the f**k up!” at the screen and has every romantic plot available draped around her. She needn’t have been kept alive as long as she was. She featured in one particularly annoying scene with the lead man (I forget his name) which was far too drawn out. It really bugged me, nigh on beginning to ruin the film. You’ll know what I mean when you watch it. It’s one of those “Ahhh Ahhh We’re going to die!” moments, followed by “I love you and always had” only seconds later, with the killer looming only closer. Annoying.
Overall Stay Alive is a great little film. It wasn’t helped by some overly harsh reviews, but if you want an enjoyable few hours, with some beers, chocolate and maybe the cat, then this should suit you to a tee.
Think the Goonies meets Resident Evil 7.5/10
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