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Alive

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Alive

Released Sep 18, 2020

1h 31m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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A severely injured man and woman wake up in an abandoned sanitarium and discover a sadistic caretaker holds the key to their freedom.

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

If you like a side of cheese with your gristle, then Alive may well satiate your desire for a little gore with more.

Rated: 2.5/5

Sep 25, 2020

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Terry Staunton

Radio Times

Building all too slowly towards a rushed and clumsy shock reveal, the result might have been more effective as a shorter piece or a Twilight Zone episode.

Rated: 2/5

Nov 19, 2024

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Alix Turner

Ready Steady Cut

Canadian mystery/horror about two people who wake up in bloody bandages, and unable to remember a thing. Is the caretaker trying to heal them, or are they his captives?

Rated: 3/5

Feb 2, 2021

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Lindsay Traves

Nightmarish Conjurings

I have two competing opinions about Rob Grant's Alive; part of me loved the bloody disaster of the terrifying psycho driven torture porn, and the other is still angry about the left-field half-baked premise and the eye-roll inducing ending.

Jan 28, 2021

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

If what you want from zombie movies is gore, gore, and more gore, you may be disappointed, but otherwise this is smart, fun genre entertainment.

Sep 26, 2020

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Allen Adams

The Maine Edge

It's fun to watch a movie so committed to being what it wants to be. It is exactly what you expect, yet also manages to have a trick or two up its sleeve. Alive is blood-soaked and sinister, a gory good time featuring some B-movie thrills.

Rated: 3.5/5

Sep 22, 2020

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m s

Not as horrendously bad as Harpoon, thankfully

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

05/05/25

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Audience Member

Sayang oras. Mabagal takbo ng istorya at kulang sa gore. Oks sana kung pinahaba or pinarami un chase scenes. Ganun din sa ending. Pilit na pilit un twist

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/08/25

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Craig B

Quite a gruesome movie this one. Hard to say too much without giving away the ending, but a fairly solidly acted gore-fest which moves along quite nicely, taking you on a ride with an ending which you may not see coming.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/26/23

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R Z

Watched about 1 hour then turned it off. The dialogue was stilted like a stage play. The doctor character was really one-dimensional and lame. It's low budget, and that's fine, but they didn't put much effort into the sets or the blocking. Like the scene in the garden, the doctor is pruning ... a clump of twigs? They couldn't give him an actual plant??

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/13/23

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Chelsea T

too many aspects were unbelievable. acting is sub par. oh and also, its medically impossible- not even remotely believable in the setting of the movie. the gore was lame. I also didn't buy into the antagonist. why create life and then threaten to harm it? its like writer just forgot about logic. how does an abandoned hospital have power? how does he acquire that many dead bodies? how does he get out of a locked freezer? how does he just recover from a neck stab with a liter of saline in his neck? also, no dog would pass up a pile of bloody corpse parts to chase people. i frequently fast-forwarded to get through the prolonged boringness

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/21/23

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nilufer e

It was intriguing and unexpectedly good. Wasn't all that original but there were some twists that I enjoyed. It wasn't necessarily thrilling but it was entertaining and mysterious.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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A severely injured man and woman wake up in an abandoned sanitarium and discover a sadistic caretaker holds the key to their freedom.

Director: Rob Grant
Producer: Lars Lehmann, Chuck McCue, Michael Peterson, Jules Vincent
Screenwriter: Chuck McCue, Jules Vincent
Distributor: Cranked Up Films
Production Co: 775 Media Corp, Vamanos Films
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 18, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 18, 2020
Runtime: 1h 31m

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