Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 24 out of 100 based on 17 reviews. Stay Alive received negative critical reviews. The movie grossed a total of over $27.1 million worldwide. It ultimately grossed a total of $23.08 million in the United States. box office with $10.7 million that first weekend.
Intrigued, a worker puts a copy in a PlayStation 2. Meanwhile, the gaming store is now selling copies of Stay Alive. As Bathory's body burns, the three leave the tower. Swink, still alive due to the rose bush, bursts in with Abigail and rescues Hutch. Bathory's body reanimates recalling that the Countess hates mirrors, Hutch uses the reflective laptop to repel her before setting the room ablaze. At the top of the tower, Hutch finds the preserved body of Elizabeth Bathory and hammers three nails into it, after which the spirit disappears.
They become separated and Hutch performs the ritual on Bathory's body alone. They take the laptop and some wild roses, which they drop to deter undead children as they move toward the tower. Hutch and Abigail return to the van to find Swink's character dead. Swink decides to run for it until he falls over into a bush of roses. The Countess begins cheating, arriving in her carriage to kill Swink in real life, even though his character is alive. Swink stays in a van and plays the game on his laptop to distract Bathory, while Hutch and Abigail search Gerouge Plantation. The three survivors realize that once the game has begun, it can play by itself. October sees the Countess in real life and tries to kill her but realizes that she is a ghost. The Countess can only be killed by driving three nails into her body to trap her soul. October has discovered that the real Countess Bathory was locked in the tower of her estate as punishment for her gruesome acts and vowed to return one day for revenge, which she is now able to do, as The Prayer of Elizabeth has resurrected her. Hutch and Abigail search Loomis' house and learn of the game developer's location: the real Gerouge Plantation. However, Detective King ignores Swink's warning and plays until his character dies. The survivors agree to stop playing Stay Alive. Phineus decides to play alone, and despite quitting the game before his character can die, he is killed in real life when he is run over by a horse-drawn carriage. Her weakness was mirrors because she could not stand to see herself growing old. October researches Bathory and learns she would drain young women of blood, bathing in it to maintain her youth. Hutch realizes that Loomis and Miller played Stay Alive right before they died, and that they died the same way as their game characters did. Two detectives, Thibodeaux and King, question Hutch about the homicides. Minutes later, the Countess appears in Miller's office and kills him by stabbing him with conjoined scissor blades like the ones in the game. Since he is now out of roses, a woman in a red dress, the Countess, kills Miller's character. Separated from the others, Miller throws the rose to dispel the spirits of undead girls. October, a reader of occult literature, explains that undead spirits cannot move across wild roses. Miller is directed by the game to pick up a rose. The players fight through a cemetery of evil ghost children, heading toward a mausoleum and tower. The game is set in a derelict mansion on Gerouge Plantation, but it only starts when the six players recite "The Prayer of Elizabeth," a request for "all who resist" to perish so that their blood can keep the Countess Elizabeth Bathory young. They are joined by Abigail and another friend, Swink, while Hutch's boss Miller plays online from his office. Hutch, his friend October, and her brother Phineus decide to play the game as a group. It was the first film released by Hollywood Pictures after five years of inactivity.Īfter playing a video game titled Stay Alive, Loomis Crowley, his roommate Rex, and Rex's girlfriend Sarah are killed the same way as their characters were killed in the game.Īt Loomis' funeral, his friend Hutch meets Abigail – a friend of Sarah – and receives some of Loomis' possessions, including Stay Alive. The film was produced by Joseph McGinty Nichol, and released on Main the United States. Stay Alive is a 2006 American supernatural horror film directed by William Brent Bell, who co-wrote it with Matthew Peterman.
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