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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 09/25/2020
2.5/5
If you like a side of cheese with your gristle, then Alive may well satiate your desire for a little gore with more. Go to Full Review
Terry Staunton Radio Times 11/19/2024
2/5
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. Go to Full Review
Alix Turner Ready Steady Cut 02/02/2021
3/5
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? Go to Full Review
Lindsay Traves Nightmarish Conjurings 01/28/2021
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. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills 09/26/2020
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. Go to Full Review
Allen Adams The Maine Edge 09/22/2020
3.5/5
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. Go to Full Review
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m s May 5 Not as horrendously bad as Harpoon, thankfully See more @emill_santos Mar 8 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 See more Craig B @Boundsy 09/26/2023 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. See more R Z 08/13/2023 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?? See more Chelsea T 07/21/2023 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 See more nilufer e @Nilicim 05/30/2021 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. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis 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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