Alicia I love this movie so much

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

rachel I have watched this film with my best friend in and around 9 times. This film I admit is lacking in a normative way, but unfortunately for Joe Castro it's lack is what makes me fall head over heels for its Ducking hilarity! If you feel the need to laugh the whole way through something take this upon yourself. By the end of it you'll be a first rate stand up comedian you'll have so many jokes. I love this film to bits. It rivals the room in my opinion, which I have fully appreciated also!watch it , watch it now.

vrldc Even those who like the low budget gore, low brow humor and independent zombie movies will fine this a disappointment.Near Death tries to be cheap horror/soft-core porn/comedy with being scary, sexy or funny. You can appreciate the effort of the actors but the plot, the effects, the orthodontic pieces, its just too much. You wonder where this is going all the time. You ask yourself what's up with the sex scenes, what's up with the mirror, what's up with priest who has is approached for research purposes and then agrees to an exorcism/séance or something 60 seconds later.I am all for actors and directors trying to make a buck in the alternative DVD market with "not-ready-for-theater" movies but this is a poor effort because you see what the director is trying to do but never comes close to getting done. You may become depressed after you've seen it, because movies like this make you aware of the many ways you can be suckered into wasting time.

Joseph P. Ulibas Near Death (2003) is just a mess. The storyline (if you want to call it that) is boring and confusing. The acting is inept and the lighting and direction is terrible. Such a shame because the gore effects were surprisingly good for a "movie" like this. Like I said in the past, Gory set pieces do not make a picture. Shot on digital video and acted in "lame-o-vision". The performances varied from stiff to hammy. One actor in general shouted his lines.Three so called "ghost hunters" enter a gaudy house populated by people who look as if they've been eating too much Black Jack Chewing Gum and a chronic case of halitosis. The protagonists are spineless and the monsters aren't even cool and the cast isn't even semi-attractive (the lead actress has an E.T. neck) and the dude (lead actor) looks like a cruiser. I don't know how they got the villain wrong. I mean he dresses kind of cool but his acting is simply dreadful. Too many computer and digital effects destroy the movie. The editing needs a whole lot of work and the director needs to hire a person to work on the continuity. Even if this film was in the competent hands of a good director I don't think the results would have been any different. When you work with crap you'll wind up with crap, if you're good it'll be a shiny piece of crap.I wouldn't recommend this film to many worst enemy. It's not worth the aggravation or testing one's patience by having to sit through this ordeal. Try and either find another movie or a different hobby.Time is too short for things like this because this movie is NEAR DEATH!!

McCormick1340 This movie has one of the coolest stories I've seen in a long time. Three students researching supernatural activity come upon a mansion inhabited by ghosts from the 1950's. There is the spirit of an old film director: Willie Von Brahm, his star: Vena (a prettier version of Gloria Swanson from sunset boulevard), his leading man: Harlan, Doctor Blanchard etc. The whole cast is colorful and entertaining. I especially liked the scenes at the pawnshop and at the beach. Probably the best thing about this movie is the sets. The rooms in the mansion are really cool, you can see this is where most of the budget went. the camera work is so/so, the actors have good scenes. Also interesting is the subplot involving Markie selling dead bodies to the ghosts for money.