DVD Commentary

Devilish Video Discs

Here's how EW's DVD critics rate ''A Nightmare on Elm Street,'' ''Saw II,'' ''Slither,'' and other new releases, starting with the trickiest and leading to the ultimate fright-night treats
| Oct 24, 2006
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Stay Alive: Unrated Director's Cut

In Stay Alive, young gamers initiate a killer videogame by chanting its creepy opening ''Prayer of Elizabeth,'' which dooms them all: When you die virtually, you die for real, too. The game/real-life melding is inventive but has holes, as one character survives ''Game Over.'' Some special effects resonate (that crippled zombie spider crawling across a wall is très freaky), but the bloody shears-and-chains horror is nothing new.

EXTRAS A commentary from the filmmakers reveals standard behind-the-scenes tidbits.