Stay Alive

Horror buffs looking for a novel twist on genre formulas should look elsewhere, but this body-count potboiler about a sinister video game and the poor dopes who make the mistake of playing it is the movie equivalent of junk food: It's not good, but it's predictable and even satisfying, in a low-expectations way. New Orleans-based gaming junkie Loomis Crowley (Milo Ventimiglia) supports his habit by beta testing new products, but he's never seen anything like Stay Alive. Not because it's superficially different from hundreds of first-person shooter games with supernatural twists, but because it's got a bloody (albeit PG-13 rated) will of its own, as Loomis and ...