A Brush With Death

2007 "They just wanted to get away for the weekend. He just wanted a family."
A Brush With Death
2.4| 1h23m| R| en| More Info
Released: 07 March 2007 Released
Producted By: Stainless Reel Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Five high school cheerleaders drive out to a rural mansion to spend the weekend. They hear a thirty year-old urban legend about a young boy who killed his family and used their blood in his juvenile artwork. While exploring an old farmhouse on the property they discover that the boy never left his home and has grown into a sick and twisted man.

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innocuous Not the worst movie I've ever seen, but pretty bad, even for an indie. The plot seems like it was written as part of a class exercise where each class member gets to write one page of a script. There are flashbacks, flash-forwards, and all sorts of discontinuities. Characters are introduced only to be dropped completely, while new and important characters are introduced at the very end of the movie.A couple of the scenes make you wonder what the movie would have been like if it had been consistent, but these moments are fleeting.The movie is also not helped by the poor audio. There are times when you think that one of the characters must be deaf because the POV shots show someone talking but you can't hear any dialogue.Finally, I would have liked to have been there for the casting, as the producer apparently posted a call for interchangeable cheerleader-type girls 19 to 22 years of age, no nudity or acting ability required. Five of them are bad enough, but I'm sure there was a whole line of them at the casting office. That would have made a horror story on its own.
zoetroph2006 About 32 minutes into this film, the scene where the guy comes over to hang out with the 5 cheerleaders, and 2 of the girls lay on the floor and try to flip the other over in some kind of cheerleader move, anyway as they get up, and the camera stays on them, if you look screen left you will see an overweight camera man on his knees crouched at the end of the couch. At first I thought it was Hillbilly Wayne the auto mechanic with his camera, but rewind shows otherwise.The continuity in this film was possibly the worse I have ever tried to follow in a B movie. Flashbacks, fast forwards, trying to tell a story, but it is so disjointed it really makes it hard to follow. Cute if not entirely predictable ending.I have to say it still puzzles me why 5 girls would want to party in a dilapidated old house. Especially these 5 who seemed like they walked out of a Teen Glamour shoot and would not be caught dead (pardon the pun) in a run down :haunted: mansion.I don't think the movie is a total loss, I still enjoyed it for what it was. Since I cannot make a movie I don't feel I should be critiquing others so harshly. Small budgets sometimes are the blame,other times it's the writing or the acting. In this case, probably a little of all three.
movieman_kev 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
datvmanlife OK so I went out to the videoshop one night and decided to get a b movie cause i hadn't seen one in a while. I thought the name of this had a nice ring to it and i the blurb at the back was a good movie idea. i didn't expect a lot as it was a b movie. boy im surprised i was hoping for a stinker but this should be playing in cinemas around the world. from start which is sick itself to finish which still makes me shudder dear god that concept freakyness evil evil. I now own a copy of this movie i bought one the next day after renting. There is no nudity or on screen brutal gore but who cares the only bit you need to care about is that ending. people have been giving it bad reviews? wtf im shocked this wasn't at the movies. a must for all. if you don't like it than tough for you. to finish off the acting was great, script was great and the direction was great and the score was great i cant find a flaw in this movie after 3 times watching it. enjoy this beautiful movie. the only flaw i can find is that the movie description isn't correct but who cares once you get into the film you don't care