Frankie Muniz tries to Stay Alive

Not quite the Bee Gees biopic I was hoping for but this is so darn silly I just have to share it with you. A lot of people are calling this an effort to break free of his goody two-shoes Malcolm in the Middle persona [a show I quite enjoy mind you]. Frankie Muniz has signed on to co-star in an upcoming horror/thriller Stay Alive. He will play, get this, a nerd, named Swink Sylvania who gets drawn into horrific circumstances and blood-letting by a video game.

Movies.com - Three video game–loving kids in New Orleans rediscover their friendship at the funeral of one of their friends, who died while playing a game called Stay Alive. It turns out that the ghost of a local video game champ may have come to life through the game and be on a killing spree. I kid you not. That's a helluva lot of effort to ensure you keep your initials at the top of the Top Score screen. BBC.co.uk calls it "basically The Ring with a joystick".

I miss Shocker. Your mother always said video games were bad for you. You should have listened.