Product Details

• Actors: Nicholls Melancon
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: New Light Ent
• DVD Release Date: March 6, 2007
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000M7XRCY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,090 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Five cheerleaders spend the night in an abandoned farmhouse; they soon find themselves up against the vengeful spirit of a boy who’s rumored to have painted a portrait with the blood of his brother that he murdered forty years earlier.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not even bad enough to hate., December 3, 2007

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Graves (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Brush With Death (DVD)

I tried to come up with something pithy about this movie, about how bad it was but the words just don't come. It isn't even bad enough to draw out creative insults.

The plot is pretty straight forward. Five 20 something girls, we're told they are cheerleaders but that doesn't enter into this, are off for a weekend away at a country estate one of their rich daddys owns.

Along the way they run into local characters and the local haunted house where rumor says a murder took place and is still considered creepy.

Well the girls decide this would be a cool place to visit in the night. You can, I'm sure, see what's coming. They are of course picked off one by one along with assorted guys they've picked up and one incredibly creepy inbred local by the local wack job who likes to paint pictures in human blood. Hense the title 'brush' with death.

OK this is pretty standard as a low budget slasher flick but these can have charm. This does not. The girls are attractive and dress well but realistically. However camera angles are often odd and sound quality is all over the place, like the boom wasn't always where it should have been. An early flash back to a weirdo shop owner is supposed to set up a red herring but it's just confusing.

It's not the low production values that finalize this production's doom but continuity issues that fall flat and prevent the willing suspension of disbelief.

For example in the "haunted" house the electricity is still on. Something that the locals and even the girl who's father owns a nearby house should have noticed. Most importantly there is no explanation why the killer is able to overwhealm most of the girls and even a grown man. He's not some hulking mass or armed with narcotic drugs. When he's revealed he looks like a younger version of Les Nesman who'd have trouble with my 2 year old niece, never mind grown adults. Maybe the first girl could be surprise but as others know their fate, seeing their companion's bodies, they don't put up enough of a fight to even upset the furniture.

The only reason to rent this movie, for goodness' sake don't buy it, is if you're teaching a class on film and want to show 'what not to do.' Otherwise, leave this drek alone.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Clueless times five, August 4, 2007

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Music Lover in Omaha (Omaha, Ne) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Brush With Death (DVD)

Well, the girls were nice to look at. They weren't too bright and it took forever to get to the house where all the action was to take place. I don't see this one ever making anybody's must-see list. In fact, it was so slow moving that it was hard to sit through the whole thing. I did however, and the climax was much like the rest of the film...slooow. It lacked any kind of impact and then two words popped up on the screen that said: "The End" and I thought 'Really? That's it?" The bottom line is, this film is watchable but not fun in any way at any level. If you must watch it, rent it. You probably would only watch it once anyway.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars your blood will run cold . . . maybe down to about 98.5!, January 16, 2010

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Caraculiambro (La Mancha and environs) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Brush With Death (DVD)

"This item has been discontinued by the manufacturer"!??! Aw, say it ain't so!

I've heard it said that if you give 100 monkeys 100 typewriters and have them randomly clacking away, they will eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare.

Well, the monkeys haven't gotten that far yet. In the meantime, this is what they have to offer.

The thing that's mysterious about this crud is not how it got to be so bad, but HOW IT GOT SUCH A WIDE DISTRIBUTION! Holy smokes! Every year there's dozens of bad movies of this ilk being made by self-deluded independent filmmakers, yet every time they take their finished product into a distributor, some low-level functionary has the unenviable job of telling such goofs what time of day it is.

But not in this case. This movie is utterly without merit: it is every bit as bad, cheesy, awfully directed, atrociously acted, etc. etc., as the worst independent movie you've ever seen. The thing that makes this one remarkable was that the addlepates behind it got an even more addlepated distributor to distribute this (in this case, Vivendi Visual Entertainment). Thus it was that copies of this wound up in video rental chains all over this great nation. Needless to say, it was direct-to-video.

Some points:

1. I'm willing to bet Vivendi extensively re-edited this before agreeing to release it. There seems to be a dramatic divergence between the inept vision of the director, Brad Wiebe, the the occasional flashes of superslick editing. My guess is that they heavily reworked his turd.

2. The "five cheerleaders" are ugly. Not a one of them is a looker. As if this weren't reason enough to physically burn this DVD, there is no T&A! Isn't this the sine qua non of a low-budget horror flick? True, a couple of them get into bikinis midway through, but other than that, there's nothing. I'm guessing this is because these girls were probably related either to those who funded or distributed this movie, so when it came time to deliver the goods, they demurred, "Uncle Ronnie, you're not really gonna make me . . ."

3. The back of the DVD books reads, "Five cheerleaders spend the night in an abandoned farmhouse and find themselves up against a vengeful ghost. They soon find out that spirit is from a dead boy who painted a portrait of the brother he killed forty years earlier." Uh, that's not the story at all! Who wrote that? Sheesh.

4. It was a bit sad that there weren't many extra features on the DVD, such as a commentary track or something. I had hoped that there would be footage of someone like Jane Goodall interviewing the filmmakers, but no such luck.

5. The most mind-blowing moment of this film is when the lead character, Rankin, is alone in the house with two randy girls. They're on the floor . . . they're getting drunk . . . the girls wanna play a game. Neverthless, Rankin blurts out, "I gotta go!" WHOT?! ARE YOU JOKING?! Go do what? File your taxes? Organize your sock drawer? I don't care what this guy had to do: in a situation like that, any guy with a pair would quit his job, let his family be swept away in a landslide, let his mother be eaten by crocodiles -- whatever -- before telling a couple of hot and horny girls, "I gotta go!" Who wrote this?