A Brush with Death

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.

I have just watched this online under the title "Cheerleaders Blood" but under any name it sucks big time! Five rather dumb cheerleaders spend a weekend break at a country mansion belonging to the uncle of one of them and in the style of say Texas Chainsaw Massacre some of the local hicks aren't very friendly. The acting, script and plot are all bottom of the barrel, the only half decent performance was Max Taylor as a stuttering hick named Caleb but cruelly called The Retard by the locals. Nothing that can be considered horror happens for nearly the first hour, I can't believe that it took three people to write this drivel. Added to the sheer boredom and frustration is the fact that the sound is terrible, at times it was difficult to hear what is being said by the "actors". I have seen worse movies but trust me when I say that this movie is very, very, very poor.

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.

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.

Five cheerleaders drive down to one of their uncle's mansion for a mini-vacation, once there they meet Ranken the neighbor from half a mile down, he tells them of an abandoned house close by. A good portion of the movie deals with the girls lounging around the mansion's pool in bikinis (but never do any of the get even topless, that would inject something of interest into the film) with the horror/slasher element of the film relegated to late in the movie (apart from a few asides to other people that don't really go anywhere & some flashbacks) Even if I weren't jaded by atrocious low-budget slasher films, this one would've still bored me to tears. Nothing even remotely approaching competence (much less entertainment) can be found within this wast of celluloid.

My Grade: F