A Brush with Death

I actually like low budget, usually low rated movies. There is something about them.... sometimes its a mess and laughable. BUT I don't feel like I completely wasted my time viewing this movie. Maybe I would feel different if I paid to see in a movie theater where I was a captive audience. I multi-tasked while viewing. Nothing too important that can be "missed". Not too bad a movie. Now they expect reviews to be ten lines, and although I summed up my feelings about this movie in less, I will take the time to try and balance out the negative reviews just a tad. So I will again say the movie was not to bad in hopes of making enough lines to meet the criteria for a review.

What can I say about this stinker. No acting, no blood, no gore, no nothing. The storyline is a turkey too, why is that man taking pictures from a girl, why is she almost undressed and in the next shot dressed and then undressed again? Who is that guy, supposed to mislead the viewer thinking he is the killer. How stupid are those girls really want to visit an abandoned house were some atrocities happened. 1954 and 1955 back flashes, huh, who are those kids? the names never appear in the movie. The end, what the hell, see it coming miles away. And what about the conversations between the girls, so stupid, you see them wait until one has finished her sentence. This is no acting. At the end, suddenly there is light in that house but still they think no one lives there. No blood flows, just in snap shots that's the best part, some frames included with blood. You never see any killing of effect used. Can it get worser? I don't think so... a waist of time

The case quoted one plot while the movie was well barely similar.

Case" Five cheerleaders spend the night in an abandoned farmhouse and find themselves up against a vengeful ghost.

They soon find out the spirit is from a dead boy who painted a portrait of the brother he killed forty years earlier." OK now while there are 5 girls that come off as sluts it is never really clear that they are cheerleaders. The first 2/3 of the film is spent watching them swim and party. This has an R rating but comes off like middle school porn! There is an occasional flashback of a demented older brother making the younger one kill a cat and play some awful how much do you love me game and than suggesting that the younger brother kill their father.

You do see paintings, that appear to be made with blood, of what we can only assume are other victims. BUT lets make things very clear, there is no GHOST the killing brother is alive and well killing more people and evidently has a couple of sons.

If this movie had delivered the plot the case claims it had, perhaps it would have been worth watching.

There is nothing bad about a movie with five highly attractive young women that are scantily clad for most of the film. Yes, that added a few stars to my rating. The story is not terrible either and the characters are fun. Worth a watch.

THe box says 5 girls go out to a rural farm house to get away and then learn a terrible secret about a house next door. Well, after learning the secret they of course decide to go stay in it. Which never unfolds really. You got 5 hot girls that end up swimming half the film and just talking about nothing really. Im not convinced that they even died in the movie at the end. There is no nudity, I don't know why it is R rated, a couple bad words I think. The blood is only thrown against a wall and implying that something bad happens.

The worst part is, in the beginning there is some crazy gas station dude that has during one of the MANY flashback scenes that just have no bearing on the movie, anyway, this old guy kills a dude and them starts taking photos of the girl with a stuttering young man who is the only cool character in the film. They take photos of her, with the guy kissing her and sorta leading to a perversion that would be cool in itself if the real story didn't have to happen.

Over all, the writers need to go to school and learn how to write something entertaining because nothing ever happens in this film. Absolutely boring. The only bright spot is the stuttering guy who actually did a pretty good job. This film makes ED WOOD films look like masterpieces. Horrendous.