Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jon Foster | ... | Hutch | |
Samaire Armstrong | ... | Abigail | |
Frankie Muniz | ... | Swink | |
Jimmi Simpson | ... | Phineus | |
Wendell Pierce | ... | Detective Thibodeaux | |
Milo Ventimiglia | ... | Loomis Crowley | |
Sophia Bush | ... | October | |
Adam Goldberg | ... | Miller Banks | |
Billy Slaughter | ... | Rex | |
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Nicole Oppermann | ... | Sarah |
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April Wood | ... | Loretta |
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Monica Monica | ... | Mrs. Crowley |
Rio Hackford | ... | Detective King | |
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Billy Louviere | ... | Fidget |
J. Richey Nash | ... | Young Rookie (as Richey Nash) |
Loomis Crowley is testing the underground game Stay Alive with his friends Sarah and Rex. When the game is over, Loomis finds Rex and Sarah dead in their room, and he is pushed by a shadow from the staircase, breaking the banister and hanging the same way he died in the game. Loomis' sister, Emma, gives his game to his best friend, Hutch. They, and his friends Miller, Phineus with his sister October, Swink and Abigail play the game together. When Miller and Phineus die the same way they died in the game, the survivors disclose that the game is based on the life of the evil Countess Elizabeth Bathory. She was buried alive in the tower of her real state in the Geronge Plantation. With the police chasing them, and after the death of October, the survivors reach the house and try to find the corpse of the Countess to destroy her fiend. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Overall the movie is well done, the ghost are scary without having to show a lot and the acting are generally OK. What really gets me is the script. How they always manage to make the characters so stupid is beyond me. It one thing watching a char die because of the circumstance but watching a char die because of his/her own stupidity is another. It just makes the audience feel cheated and resentful to the characters. Its a shame that horror flick cannot be more intelligent. 'The Ring' was great and it looks like a great beginning for the new age of scary, intelligent movies but this movie push the genre back a few notches.
Basically there should be 2 types of scary movie, 1) intelligent ones and 2) stupid but with lot of T&A. This movie is stupid without the T&A (replaced by really nicely rendered video game scenes). guess that is not enough to please the audience.