Protraph
Lack of good storyline.
RipDelight
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Lela
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
lorcan-61881
The Pact came out in May 2012 as another modern day horror film that's apparently 'the scariest film in the world since The Exorcist'. The film follows Anna who comes back to her old family home for her mother's funeral and when her sister and cousin disappear in the house a few nights before,mysterious visions and dreams start to haunt Anna bringing her back 30 years into her family history with a terrifying discovery. The Pact was absolutely..horrifying? More. It's absolutely terrifying,the story is used a lot in films but this was awesome,the scary scenes were so scary and unusual. If I had to choose my scariest scene it would be when Anna left to go to the apartment building for a night;That..Was..So.. Scary!. In 2014,a sequel entitled The Pact II was released probably as a straight to DVD. I saw the trailer and it looked quite good but I never got a chance to see it. The Pact is an awful scary film that scared me to death..
view_and_review
With a name like The Pact I'm thinking "The Craft", "The Covenant", "Witches of Eastwick", et al. Gratefully, "The Pact" was nothing like any of those."The Pact" is a blend of mystery and paranormal. You could say that most paranormal movies are like that because we have to find out what or who is causing the weird events. That is true for this movie as well as Annie Barlow (Caity Lotz) tries to find out how all these supernatural events are occurring and why important women in her life are coming up missing. In "The Pact" Annie not only has to find out who is behind all of these poltergeist actions, but what is this entity trying to tell her.I liked the movie. They accurately pin down the art of spooky and intrigue. The movie transitions from scare mode to detective mode throughout as Annie tries to solve this mystery. The story is good and so was the overall flow of the movie.
SnoopyStyle
Nicole Barlow (Agnes Bruckner) is organizing her mother's funeral but her sister Annie (Caity Lotz) is reluctant to come. Nicole disappears in her mother's home. Annie arrives and attends the funeral while Nicole is missing. Cousin Liz, Nicole's daughter Eva and Annie return to mother's home. Liz goes missing. Nicole is attacked by an invisible force and barely escapes with Eva. The police doesn't believe her. Officer Bill Creek investigates with Annie and they find a mysterious room. She takes psychic Stevie and Stevie's brother Giles to the house.The movie starts off confused and not that compelling. Bruckner starts but she's not the lead. It's an opportunity to do something scary to open this movie but it doesn't do that. It's a bit of a muddle as Caity Lotz takes over. Haley Hudson makes a nice appearance as a weird psychic. It starts an interesting better atmospheric second half.
gpeltz
"The Pact" (2012) was Written and Directed by Nicholas McCarthy, It is a quite and densely woven little ghost story. It is well acted, all around. Spoiler Alerts ahead.The action centers around Annie, played by Caity Lotz, who has returned to her old home in San Pedro, for her Mothers funeral. There are strange going's on at the house, and Annie's relatives start disappearing. Even Investigator Creek, played by Casper Van Dien, is aware that something is not right with the house. With a lot of investigation by Annie, with the help of her mothers ghost, She discovers a much darker secret, that the house concealed, involving a rather nasty serial killer Charles Barlow, aka Judas. played by Mark Steger. The entire tone of the movie is subdued, but when the shock effects hit, they are very effective. The sound design of the film well contributes to the tension and mood that the film develops. The music score by Ronan Landa personal and almost meditative.This movie is not a scare a minute, effects laden juvenile horror film. It slowly develops its case, and allows significant intelligence on the part of the viewer to help fit the pieces together. Some might be turned off by the deliberate pace, too slow for those weened on the, "Paranormal" "Insidious" roller coaster paced horror films. Not I , I found it engrossing and surprisingly adult. and will give it a strong Eight, out of Ten stars. Well done
