History Film / StayAlive

* BigBad: Elizabeth Bathory is the spirit who possess the videogame.

* StockScream: Used when the goth girl is attacked.
* TagalongKid: Frankie Muniz's character.

* WhamLine: Abigail's relevation that her father is ''not'' an architect and her mother ''doesn't'' teach first grade is treated as such, but not explained.

* ShoutOut: A {{Steamboy}} poster can be seen hanging in the background in a scene.

* Adorkable: Swink

* HeyItsThatGuy
** Abigail used to be a [[NotAnotherTeenMovie conjoined twin]]
** [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Malcolm]]
** Detective Thibodeaux / Agent Dick Gill
** Loomis Crowley / Peter Petrelli
** Bossman Miller used to work with [[ABeautifulMind Russell Crowe]]

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Elisabeth Bathory did exist in history but was Hungarian. She is infamous as a serial killer who was rumored to have murdered young girls and bathed in their blood to keep herself youthful. In the film, her InUniverse story is set in New Orleans and her infamy is on a much different scale.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Elisabeth Bathory did exist in history but was Hungarian. She is infamous as a serial killer who was rumored to have murdered young girls and bathed in their blood to keep herself youthful. In the film, her InUniverse story is set in New Orleans.

* IdiotBall: The game starts with a chant that the players must read. This chant summons the spirit of the Blood Countess. Okay. They don't know this yet. At the end of the movie, after the Countess is sent back to wherever, not only is the killer video game released to the gaming public, but they leave the chant in. Couldn't they have at least cut that part out of the code, or, you know, ''not'' released the game?
** Who was the "they" that released the game? There was no indication the survivors released the game.
*** It's clearly not the survivors who released the game. Although, the film never explains who the hell beta-test the game before it was released? Surely someone would have noticed all the strange deaths?
** How about the mother of all idiot moves? When TheChick is alone with a single rose, one of the only things that can protect her from monsters, what does she do? Pick out all the petals while playing 'he loves me, he loves me not'. '''Moron.'''
*** [[JustifiedTrope To be fair]], it's shown that holding back a monster uses up the rose. Plucking the petals appears to make it less effective but makes the rose last longer.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: When discussing how to defeat the final boss of ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'', the easiest way to succeed is apparently using a hyperblaster to kill her. The problem here lies in the fact that there is no hyperblaster in that game, and the boss is a he, not a "she". It seems they were getting the first game confused with the fourth.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Uhhh...
* WhamLine: Abigail's relevation that her father is ''not'' an architect and her mother ''doesn't'' teach first grade is treated as such. What it actually has to do with the plot, or what relevance to the current situation, given how their friends are dying left, right and centre, is ''never'' explained?

* YourMindMakesItReal

* DidNotDoTheResearch: There's some of the video game references:
** The game was made by one guy working alone in his basement. Games today require a lot of artists, designers and programmers to create for commercial sale.
** The Konami Code they referenced (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A) is correct, but Swink made the reference while holding a {{PS2}} controller, which has no B and A buttons.
** Their [[SilentHill Silent Hill 4]] reference, which mentions a ''hyperblaster'' and killing a ''girl'' on "level 4". The hyperblaster is only unlockable in the first Silent Hill game, and the only "girls" that can be killed in Silent Hill 4 is one female ghost. Not sure about which "level" it was on, if any of the worlds could be considered levels.
** A beta game is not illegal to play. In fact, some games, such ''{{Halo}} 3'' and MineCraft, make their betas open to the public. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin These are known as "open betas" (public) and "closed betas" (invitation),]] depending on how the creator releases them.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Happens to October's who's actually Hutch's ''original'' love interest. Literally less than half a day after the brutal death of his girlfriend, he seemingly forgets about her and hooks up with Abigail instead. [[WhatTheHellHero Our hero, ladies and gentleman!]]

* IdiotBall: The game starts with a chant that the players must read. This chant summons the spirit of the Blood Countess. Okay. They don't know this yet. At the end of the movie, after the Countess is sent back to wherever, not only is the killer video game released to the gaming public, but they leave the chant in. Couldn't they have at least commented that part out of the code, or, you know, ''not'' released the game?
** Who was the "they" that released the game? There was no indication the survivors released the game.

* TheMostDangerousVideoGame meets TheGameComeToLife.

The movie centers on an online {{survival horror}} video game called ''[[FictionalVideoGame Stay Alive]]'', based on the myth of a figure called the Blood Countess, who was buried alive in the tower of her real state in the Geronge Plantation. There's a good reason why this game is still in beta, though: The people who play it have a nasty habit of dying.

** A beta game is not illegal to play. In fact, some games, such ''{{Halo}} 3'' and MineCraft, make their betas open to the public.

** Their [[SilentHill Silent Hill 4]] reference, which mentions a ''hyperblaster'' and killing a ''girl'' on "level 4".

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: A video game that summons the spirit of a mass murderer to kill you if you lose? Thats kinda cool.

* FictionalVideoGame: The titular game.

* ShownTheirWork: Despite the things they got wrong above, some of their video game references are correct, which is because they hired [[GearsOfWar CliffyB]] as their consultant.