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Stay Alive

Stay Alive film poster
Directed by William Brent Bell
Produced by McG
Written by William Brent Bell
Matthew Peterman
Starring Jon Foster
Samaire Armstrong
Frankie Muniz
Sophia Bush
Jimmi Simpson
Adam Goldberg
Milo Ventimiglia
Distributed by Hollywood Pictures (USA)
Universal Studios (UK, Netherlands, Singapore, Mexico, Brazil)
Release date(s) 24 March 2006 (USA),
(Canada)
Running time 85 mins (Rated) 100 mins (Unrated Director's Cut)
Language English
Budget $9,000,000 (estimated)
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For other uses, see Stay Alive (disambiguation).

Stay Alive is a 2006 horror film directed and written by William Brent Bell. This film was produced by McG, co-produced by Hollywood Pictures and released on March 24, 2006 in the United States of America.

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[edit] Cast

  • Wendell Pierce: Detective T.
  • Maria Kalinina: Countess
  • Billy Louviere: Fidget
  • Jim Bishop: Mr. Crowley
  • J. Richey Nash: Young
  • Billy Slaughter: Rex
  • Nicole Oppermann: Sarah
  • Cynthia LeBlanc: Lady in the park (scenes deleted)
  • Elton LeBlanc: Man in the park (scenes deleted)
  • Alice Krige: Author (Unrated)
  • James Haven as Jonathan Malkus (Unrated)

[edit] Deaths

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
  • Rex (Billy Slaughter) & Sarah (Nicole Opperman) - Killed off-screen while having anal sex in a bedroom, after playing the game (also off-screen); Rex is slashed to death and Sarah is exsanguinated. Their bodies are found by Loomis (In the PG-13 version, all we see are quick flashes of their bodies, but in the unrated DVD, we see a longer, extended view of the bloody bedroom. It is also seen again when Hutch and Abigail go to the house to look for clues).
  • Loomis Crowley (Milo Ventimiglia) - Thrown from a stair banister with a shackle around his neck, hanging him.
  • Miller(Adam Goldberg) - Cornered by the Blood Countess and killed when she drives a pair of kalipers into his neck (off-screen). Cornered in his office & slashed, outside of the game.
  • Phineus Bantum (Jimmi Simpson) - Ran over by Bathory's carriage in the middle of an isolated road. We don't see Phineus die in gameplay, but it is presumed he was killed in the game and then killed for real. In the unrated DVD, we actually see Phineas get hit by the carriage, and see his body lying in the road with a large puddle of blood around his head and slashes on his shirt/chest. October is also bloodied when she cries and hugs him on the road.
  • Detective Charles King (David Jones) - Face ripped open (off-screen in the rated version; in the unrated, we actually see his jaws ripped apart, and a wave of blood hit the windshield. We also see his entire head explode in a bloody mess in the video game before his actual death) after playing the game briefly.
  • October Bantum (Sophia Bush) - While smoking outside of a house under construction, the game plays itself. She is briefly chased by The Countess, hung upside down and taunted and then has her throat slashed with kalipers, briefly after telling the Countess to "go fuck yourself". In the PG-13 cut, we merely see her get slashed and fall to the ground, where Hutch, Abigail and Swink later find her, but in the unrated version, we see a few extended cuts of blood streaming down her face and October gagging, and then Hutch cursing and screaming, hugging her body.
  • Elizibeth Bathory (Maria Kalina) - Hutch Drives three nails into her, causing her game version to vanish, but her corpse to animate.(Because if you put nails in her, her spirit will return to her body.) He then stuns her with her reflection (using a shiny laptop, as mirrors break in her presence as she cannot stand to see herself getting old), then sets her on fire.
  • Jonathan Malkus (James Haven) (director's cut only) - Killed (off-screen) by The Blood Countess. His body is shown in his house in the finale of the movie when Abigail discovers him with her lighter when she is being attacked.

[edit] Taglines

  • You Die In The Game - You Die For Real

[edit] Box Office

As of June 29, 2006, the film grossed a total of 23.08 million dollars in the United States[citation needed]. The watered-down theatrical version was widely panned by critics and horror fans alike[citation needed] but the Unrated Director's Cut was thought of as a far better film. It was considered a box office success due to its production budget of only 9 million dollars. Three days after the movie was released, it already grossed more than its budget with 10.7 million dollars in the United States. The movie has grossed a total of over 25.18 million dollars worldwide and has yet to be released in many markets internationally.

[edit] DVD Release

The DVD was released in the USA on Tuesday, September 19th 2006. It was made available in an unrated edition (100 minutes) and a PG-13 edition (85 minutes). The 15 minutes of new unrated footage include an entirely new character and subplot. The unrated edition also features more violence, blood and gore, sex/nudity, profanity, and drug use.

[edit] Trivia

  • This was the last film that completed its production in New Orleans, Louisiana before Hurricane Katrina hit.
  • There are several historical inaccuracies throughout the movie, perhaps most notable is that it is claimed that the Blood Countess lived in America, while Elizabeth Báthory (on whom she is based) lived and grew up in Hungary. In the film it was mentioned erroneously that Elizabeth Báthory came from Romania. In the universe of the movie, this issue is addressed to some extent through the explanation that the Blood Countess fled to the United States to escape persecution and to continue her bloody habits.
  • The Laptops used were Alienware Laptops with a chrome finish.
  • The first film from Hollywood Pictures in five years.
  • The movie's Blood Countess is based on the Hungarian countess Erzsébet (Elizabeth) Báthory, who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
  • If one looks or listens closely in the movie, one can see or hear some references to real life games, such as Fatal Frame, Siren, and Silent Hill 4. In the game store, one can see the slim version of the Playstation 2 and signs advertising Unreal Championship 2, Killzone and Area 51. There is even a poster of "Jak" from the Jak and Daxter series of video games in Hutch's room.
  • The book mentioned by October is "The Malleus Demonum" and she says that it's "The Witch's Hammer." This is incorrect. The actual title for the book "The Witch's Hammer" is "The Malleus Maleficarum"
  • In the background of Hutch's apartment, when the original group begins to play the game, two large posters of Katsuhiro Otomo's anime motion picture, Steamboy, can be seen on the wall behind the couch.
  • CliffyB was the movie's videogame consultant.

[edit] External links

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