The Pact Movie Trailer

Posted by Charmaine Blake on Jul 5th, 2012 in Horror, Mystery, New Releases, Suspense | 0 comments

The Pact: A New Horror Film Starring Caity Lotz and Casper Van Dien

The Pact is an upcoming horror film based on the short film that director/writer Nicholas McCarthy entered in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The Pact revolves around the life of Annie (played by Caity Lotz) whose mother recently passed. She is trying got find out the truth behind the disappearance of her sister Nicole (Agnes Bruckner) and her cousin Liz (Kathleen Rose Perkins). In her journey to the truth, Annie starts noticing the presence of her loved ones in the house. She also starts encountering disturbing dreams and visions that will soon lead her to what happened in her mother’s past that is slowly molding their future. The Pact definitely garnered great reviews from critics in the movie world ever since it was feature in the Sundance Film Festival. Let’s take a look at an early review from Jeremy Heilman:

“Early Movie Review For The Pact

Accomplished both as a haunted house thriller and a debut feature film, Nicholas McCarthy’s The Pact makes an immediate impression. Its first scare scene recalls the classic Drew Barrymore opener from 1996’s Scream, updated for contemporary times, but instead of paying off with a spurt of gore, it leaves the viewer with a sense of mystery that firmly establishes McCarthy as a filmmaker more concerned with atmosphere than shocks. Small scale, but all the more effective due to its limited palette, this film confirms McCarthy as a talent to watch.

Without spoiling anything, the plot here involves two sisters who visit the home of their recently deceased, abusive mother to settle affairs. What is found instead is, perhaps predictably, a series of revelations about foul play, familial deceit and buried secrets. In its broad strokes, The Pact may not stray far from the template of the haunted house movie, but in its specifics it distinguishes itself.

The horror takes place, for example, in a sunny California town, and tensions are as likely to be raised in the broad daylight as the middle of the night. Combined with the McCarthy’s efficient pacing, this enables the entire film to take on a sense of dread. There is little unnecessary expository dialogue and there are few scenes here that fail to pay off with at least an eerie moment, which is refreshing in a genre that so often takes so long to deliver the goods. Though there are not many moments in The Pact that seem likely to make a viewer shriek, at least before its climax, McCarthy is rather masterful at establishing atmosphere, which becomes doubly impressive once one considers that the bulk of the action here takes place in a single, nondescript suburban home.

While The Pact hardly forges new ground for the genre, it comes about its scares honestly, without reliance upon gimmicks or cheap tactics. Professionally made and ably acted, this independent release is more competent than the bulk of recent studio-produced horror releases. Though The Pact might not pay off with an especially satisfying conclusion, the bulk of its runtime is admirable in its ability to generate discomfort skillfully.”

The original article can be seen at Movie Martyr

Catch The Pact in theaters on June 6th 2012.

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