Friday, March 20, 2009

Brush With Death (2007)

Five teenager cheerleaders head off to a mansion in the country owned by on of their uncles.  Once there, they lounge around the pool and meet a local boy who fills them in on the legend of an abandoned house down the road.  The house has been vacant since the killings done by a kid who used the blood of his victims for paint.  The girls squeal that this is exactly the fun type of place to have a party and decide to spend the night there.  What a great idea!

There are lots of flashbacks of two boys, one who is horribly nasty and the other who seems a bit slow.  The flashbacks don't add anything to the film but confusion.  

Also the killer- who everyone thought was dead but is obviously still alive - doesn't so much as kill his victims, as slowly drain enough  blood - it looks like they are giving blood -  to paint his bad pictures.  Not scary, not at all.  

The girls end up super woozy and he sits them around a table like a family - how cliche.  Then the stupid girl who has the strength to go for help isn't smart enough to immediately run out of the building.  It takes her a while to figure it out. 

So let's recap, shall we - stupid girls, stupid legend, stupid cliches, stupid creepy guy that's supposed to be hot, and a big waste of time all rolled up in a big ball of bad.

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