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When fear criples you, when death's dark shadow surrounds you, drop
a rose. It
will help you... stay alive.
A character in a video game called “Stay Alive” is spotted entering an eerie
mansion. The character flees up the stairs and enters a room when, out of the
darkness, a woman in a blood red dress lunges at the character. She knocks him
off the staircase banister, and the character is killed when
he is hanged by a chandelier
chain. The player of the game, Loomis Crowley, quits playing and goes about a
normal routine before he goes to bed. He is later awoken by a nightmare, and is
killed in real-life by the woman in the red dress, in a manner similar to how
his character died.
Elsewhere, Loomis’ friend, Hutch, receives a phone call informing him that
Loomis is dead. At the funeral, Hutch is given all of Loomis' games by his
sister, Emma, including Stay Alive. At the funeral, a blonde girl named Abigail
introduces herself as a close friend to Loomis's roommate. After the funeral, Hutch arrives at a coffee shop; which is owned and
operated by his girlfriend, October, and her brother, Phineus. Hutch hands
October the bag containing Loomis' possessions, and Phineus eventually finds
Stay Alive, which they decide to play as a group that night. That night October, Phineus, his friend Swink, and Abigail arrive at Hutch's
house, with Hutch’s boss, Miller, playing at his office. To start the game, the
players have to recite "The Prayer of Elizabeth" during the game’s intro. After
a few hours of gaming, Miller’s character is suddenly killed after he is stabbed
in the throat by the woman who killed Loomis. Moments later, Miller dies the
same way as his character.
When Hutch returns to work, he is informed of Miller’s death after talking to
two detectives, Thibodeaux and King. While this is happening, Phineus plays Stay
Alive and just before he dies, he pauses the game. After doing some research,
Hutch calls everyone together to reveal he knows how people are dying, when he
notices Phineus' absence. They call him and learn he's on his way, when
immediately after he is run down and killed by The Countess's horse-drawn
carriage. Thibodeaux and King arrive on the scene, and King decides to play Stay
Alive. King's character’s head is ripped in half, killing him. King is then
killed in the same manner. Hutch and Abby decide to go to Loomis's house, where they find the address of
Stay Alive’s developer, Jonathan Malkus. They proceed to go to his mansion, and,
assuming no one is home, they go in. There, they meet Jonathan, who tells them
about how he based his game off The Blood Countess, Elizabeth
Bathory.
Meanwhile, October learns that in order to kill The Countess, you must find
her tower and trap her in her body, driving three nails into her: one in her
heart, one in her throat, and another in her head. Swink then announces, after
seeing a newscast, that King is dead, and that the group are suspects. They all
flee, later meeting at Loomis’ house to formulate a plan. October, who tries to confront the Countess on her own, is killed by her.
Swink, Abigail and Hutch decide to investigate inside Malkus’ mansion. Swink
decides to stay behind and play the game as both a distraction for The Countess,
and an aid to the duo. Hutch and Abigail go inside the mansion, where they find
various clues about The Countess, revealing that Malkus's house is actually the
Bathory plantation. The group fights off The Countess several times, but Swink
is seemingly killed by her after he is cornered and stabbed with a pair of rose
cutters.
After a run in with The Countess’ black carriage, Hutch and Abigail locate
Elizabeth’s alter. Suddenly, the door slams shut leaving Abby alone while Hutch
panics and tries to open the door. She pleads with him to go ahead, as The
Countess closes in on her. When Hutch reaches the tower, he finds the Countess's body. He's able to get
the nails in her body in the correct places, trapping her spirit in her body
just before she kills Abigail. However, October earlier informed Hutch that the
only way to truly get rid of The Countess is to burn her body. After she attacks
him, Hutch manages to set The Countess on fire. Realizing the exit is locked,
Hutch accepts the fact that he's going to be killed by ever-increasing fire,
until Swink, who cheated the game like it cheated Phineus, and Abigail kick the
door open and rescue him as Elizabeth’s body burns. The movie ends in a video game store, showing that Stay Alive is now being
officially released across the country. The last words are the incantation that
resurrects The Countess.
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