Stay Alive

A group of friends decide to play a killer video game based on the legend of the Countess of Blood, Elizabeth Bathory 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. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil After the shocking death of a friend, a group of friends find themselves in possession of a video-game called "Stay Alive," based on the blood-curdling real life legend of a 17th century noblewoman known as the Blood Countess. After playing the game, when they know they shouldn't, the friends realize that once they die in the game, they die for real. As the players start dying in the ways they died in the game, the remaining friends realize they must defeat the Blood Countess or accept their fates. —Anonymous