Well, first of all, I have to say I kind of liked this movie. I don’t know if people have noticed but there just aren’t a lot of good slasher films out there. Like every other typical red-blooded American male between the ages of 16-45, I like blood and carnage. The more the merrier. However, not since SCREAM has there been any GOOD twists in slasher flicks. Does STAY ALIVE qualify as a slasher flick? In my book it does. People die (teenagers) and the survivors discover it’s an evil force (sort of like Freddy, Jason, Myers, etc..). They must ban together and figure out a way to stop it. The twist in this movie is the actors are dying off like their virtual characters did in a video game… hence the name STAY ALIVE.
I will warn you though, if you are one of these people who like to pick apart movies and plot lines, then skip this movie. There is parts in this flick that really doesn’t make any sense. For instance, I’m playing a computer game, that when I die in the game, I will die like that in real life. Ok, hmmmm.. Once I figure that little piece of important information out, wouldn’t you think it’d be a wise move to SHUT THE FUCKING GAME OFF????
They also figure out that the killer can be temporary stopped by using a Red Rose. So they carry a few of them around. A FEW!? I’d be wearing a rose suit, necklace, and tie. I’d have them in my hair; I’d be taking a bath in the leaves, heck I’d even eat a few for good measure.
Over all, I liked it. It was just a little different.
Now a side note:
I know that everyone is talking about SAW III. The first SAW was a great concept. But the sequels offer nothing new. Ok, you take a bunch of stupid people and place them in situations you know they will lose at. Heck, you can do that forever. SAW is no different from the FRIDAY 13th movies. After the first movie you weren’t scared any more. You just watched the flicks to see how creatively that Jason could disembowel someone. SAW is the same way. They need to spice things up some. Maybe Jigsaw meets Jason! Now that would be a flick I’d want to go see. Oh man, I can see it now.
Scene:
Jason wakes up in a room with very little light. There is a female body bound and gagged with duct tape on the floor.
Jason looks around. He has a giant steel trap screwed into his head. He stands up and accidentally pulls a cord that starts a timer and turns on a TV.
JigSaw comes on the tv:+ “Jason, you lived a life wrought with death. You now have 60 seconds left to get the giant trap off your head before it flips and rips your lower jaw off“
Jason looks around dumbfounded.
JigSaw continues: “You have two choices, 1. let the device snap your jaw off or use the key that I hid behind the eye of the girl of the floor. Chose now.”
Jason looks around and then suddenly rips the trap off his head. Bone and meat along with blood goes flying in all directions..
“NO JASON.. THAT’S NOT HOW WE PLAY HERE!”, JigSaw screams out.
Jason then reaches down and grabs the girl up off the floor with both hands. Holding her a good 8 inches off the floor he squashes her head like an over ripe grape. Shooting the key out of her eye socket and across the floor.
“JASON!!”, JigSaw yells…..
Jason heads for the only door in the room. He busts through it like it was door like it was built by Koffman and Broad. In the next room he sees a person trying to open a safe. The floor is covered with a flammable liquid and a candle is lit on the safe. The person sees Jason coming toward him and cowers back against the wall. Jason picks up the safe and throws it toward the man.
The safe strikes the guy and smashes him through the wall like a car hitting a dog doing eighty miles an hour.
“JASON!! STOP!!!“… JigSaw yells in the back ground.