Stay Alive (2006)

Stay Alive stars Jon Foster, Sophia Bush, and Samaire Armstrong.  The movie begins with the death of Loomis (Milo Ventimiglia) and two of his friends after they died in a game they were beta testing.  The game is called Stay Alive and follows the story of Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess,  a woman who killed young girls and bathed in their blood because she thought it kept her young and beautiful.

After Loomis's funeral, the game falls into the hands of his best friend Hutch (Jon Foster), who decides to play it with his girlfriend October (Sophia Bush), her brother Phineus (Jimmi Simpson), annoyingly smart friend Swink (Frankie Muniz), Hutch's boss and friend Miller (Adam Goldberg), and newcomer Abigail (Samaire Armstrong) that he met at the funeral.  While playing Miller's character dies in the game.

When Hutch goes to work the next morning, he discovers that Miller has been killed.  This causes everyone to become suspicious of the game, after discovering that Miller, Loomis, and his two friends were all killed the exact same way as they died in the game.

To me, most horror movies have the exact same plot line, with different actors playing the same parts.  Doesn't make those movies bad, it just makes them predictable.  Stay Alive is not one of those movies.  Sure, there's the goofy friend, and the somewhat slutty girlfriend, but the horror movie cliches pretty much end there.  Stay Alive is a refreshing movie that will keep viewers glued.  I give it four and a half stars.