Hands up anyone who remembers the Channel 4 programme Killer Net? One, two, three of you. Ok, good.
August 11, 2006 (Press Release) --
Hands up anyone who remembers the Channel 4 programme Killer Net? One, two, three of you. Ok, good. For those of you who had better things to do in the late 90’s, it was a four part series by Lynda La Plante about a student who gets starts playing a game on the internet in which you have to kill someone and dispose of the body. Good old-fashioned escapist fun until life starts to mirror what’s happening online… It was a pretty weak show, with the most notable thing about it being that it launched the acting career of ex-Take That star Jason Orange, but the internet was in its infancy at the time and most of us didn’t really know any better.
This is now 2006, however, and we do know better than to watch awful films that try to use technological trends to mask shortcomings in areas such as plot and dialogue. Which is probably why very few of us will bother to go out of the house to watch Stay Alive at the cinema. I think you are old enough to make up your own mind on these things so I will give you a brief run down on the film. Reluctantly, I might add.
It starts with a computer game geek playing Stay Alive, in which you have to try not to get killed by ghosts that haunt an old New Orleans plantation. The geek in question, Loomis, dies by hanging in the game. He stops playing but starts getting freaked out. He goes upstairs and finds his housemate and girlfriend dead. He runs out, crashes over his banister and dies. By hanging. Just like in the game! Life is imitating art!
Source: http://www.yahoo.com
Posted by Bruce Munro
This is now 2006, however, and we do know better than to watch awful films that try to use technological trends to mask shortcomings in areas such as plot and dialogue. Which is probably why very few of us will bother to go out of the house to watch Stay Alive at the cinema. I think you are old enough to make up your own mind on these things so I will give you a brief run down on the film. Reluctantly, I might add.
It starts with a computer game geek playing Stay Alive, in which you have to try not to get killed by ghosts that haunt an old New Orleans plantation. The geek in question, Loomis, dies by hanging in the game. He stops playing but starts getting freaked out. He goes upstairs and finds his housemate and girlfriend dead. He runs out, crashes over his banister and dies. By hanging. Just like in the game! Life is imitating art!
Source: http://www.yahoo.com
Posted by Bruce Munro
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