Yeah...given my sleepy state....it's just like a fight to stay alive...or rather, stay awake...hehehe...
I decided to type to keep myself awake....not that I don't have anything else better to type...but this was from something I've typed at home anyway....a movie review on what I watched....yeah...promise not to be too lengthy this time :P
I took a break last night after work and headed to the cinema to catch this movie...about some sort of freaky video game which kills the players the same way their characters died in the game. Pretty creepy if you ask me....so, this game, as the movie title is called, is Stay Alive.
It's freakingly real...with the 3D animations which navigate the players whereby the characters bear a sinister resemblance to the actual person and it seems that they have no control over their own choices in moulding or modelling their own characters...gawk:P
The game is basically based on the Gerouge farmland of some sort and based on the real-life experience of this lady or caretaker of some sort, Countess Elisabeth Bathory who was actually some kinda psycho who killed most of the girls in the convent or place there. Also, she has an interesting streak...she can't bear the sight of mirrors because she cannot stand the sight of herself getting old....kinda explains why she kills those young girls...since they look more youthful.
Also, before you start the game, you actually have to recite some prayer of some sort...which sounds like cult of some sort if you ask me. The prayers actually entails that the blood of those people who died will cleanse age and springs youth on the countess.....mmmmmmmmm.......
So, it goes that this group of teenagers notice the sinister part about the game after a few of their friends died.....and the creepy part...in the same manner their characters died in the game. They soon came to figuring out that they have to continue to play the game to finish off and triumph in victory in their quest to stay alive. Of course, as the generic horror/thriller movies, the characters die one by one...leaving only 1 or 2 of the main characters in the movie.
Haha...this is sort of a fantasy/animation where they have the quest to kill the witch; the Countess through the traditional witch prosecution method...nooooooo, not burn at the stake...close to that, to bury 3 nails in 3 spots of the witch....evil one...with the final nail right in the middle of the forehead and also, to cleanse the evil, she has to be burnt with her blood....urrrggghhhhh.....sounds like killing Count Dracula to me.... does that makes sense that she is Countess? Hmmm....perhaps they meant it as a connection.....:p
The hero, Hutch, found the witch's body....ermm, or the Countess...I beg your pardon....(like duuuuhhhhh...of course he did, otherwise what'd become of the movie???) and nailed the 3 nails. However, she somehow got rid of the nails and sat up from the dead....after centuries of lying dead...wonder how her corpse can be preserved so beautifully though...but then again, she's a witch:p
Then Hutch had to keep her away and he used his metallic cover of the laptop....haha...cool laptop that...should consider getting that....except that it is supported by AMD...arrggghhhh...anyway, Apply's IBook is anytime better:p
Okay, I am losing track....so the purpose of holding up the metallic cover of the laptop is to reflect the image of herself (remember how she can never stand to look at herself in the mirror?)
That worked...and she was unable to break the mirror since this is metallic...ahaha.....
Then while she was howling over the sight of herself in the mirror.....Hutch set fire and burnt her.....
They seemed to have triumphed over the evil...but ironically, copies of the Stay Alive game made its way to the market after that...at the end of the movie....in BULKS....hahaha...guess, the evil never ends.....
Intriguing quirks:
1. I knew Milo Ventimiglia was in the initial part of the movie...but, it was kinda hard to recognize him....then I remembered, he was Loomis.....gosssshhhhh, he looked so different from Jess in Gilmore Girls....he looked so grown up and sooooo tall.....hehehe
2. Sophie Bush from One Tree Hill looked different as well...she looked kinda menacing in this movie....not so sweet as I thought she was....then again, actresses are masters...oops, mistresses in metaphors...
3. Why is it again and again that horror/thriller movies are so UN-realistic?? I mean, don't you sense the horror or uneasy feeling? Why oh why do the characters like to explore on their own to dark and sinister places? Don't they ever learn? If the directors are trying to create suspense...oh puhhhh-leaseeeeee....that was like so yesterday....I think they should be more aware that the audience is also not as so UN-intelligent as they think....
4. The beginning part was cool.....kinda got me....it looked real...credits to the animation
5. Frankie Muniz of Malcolm in the Middle is a little stiff here....not too good...and he still looks young.....probably his height...
6. The music was cool.....probably due to the excerpts from the game itself...also, the graphics of the game were not bad *winks*
7. Does this game exist? I am no gamer nor expert.....but I'd think this is a rather creepy game to be called a game...then, gamers live in a world of their own...
8. Does the Countess exist in history and all that story about mass murders in Gerouge? Perhaps a research ought to be conducted....hehehe...me and my curiosity...and my friend told me to leave it just at that....hmmmmmm *thinking*
9. Also, not that much horrifying murder graphical scenes - not like FD series....:P Sorry, if you are expecting some gory killer scenes, dudes...
Review: 3 out of 5
Not that bad...a little entertaining although with predictable plot...gotta admit it did build up a little suspense...although was a little slow in the beginning...or perhaps I was sleepy myself :P
The sight of the witch and those running....hide-and-seek gals did give me those creeps....hope I am not gonna have trouble sleeping...hehehe..typical scaredy cat .....meowwwwwwww
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