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Pact (15)
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5
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4.75
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| Starring |
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Caity Lotz, Haley Hudson, Kathleen Rose Perkins
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Directed by:
Nicholas McCarthy
Written by:
Nicholas McCarthy
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| Released: |
2012 |
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HORROR
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
C |
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| Length: |
89 |
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Competent horror that tries something new. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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The American first-time director Nicholas McCarthy has chosen to make a supernatural horror picture.
It’s about a tough, female biker (Caity Lotz, pictured, who looks like a cross between Patsy Kensit and Lindsay Lohan) who returns to her abusive mother’s house in order to attend her funeral. But people keep disappearing – first the heroine’s sister, then a cousin – and our heroine finds herself being hurled around by an invisible force. She also discovers a room that she never knew existed.
So she does the sensible thing and flees the house. But of course she returns, with a police detective (Casper Van Dien), then with a blind psychic (Hayley Hudson).
Eventually, the film takes a surprising turn into a different genre altogether. This is the most original aspect, though I’m not sure the two parts of the movie quite belong together.
Credibility is undermined by some pretty dumb behaviour on the part of the heroine and the cop.
But is it scary? Yes, and it’s obvious that the director has paid careful attention to Robert Wise’s influential horror film of 1963, The Haunting.
It’s fun to see McCarthy creating a horrific environment out of a very ordinary bungalow, with ugly wallpaper and shagpile carpets. It feels like an unhappy home, and transmits quite tellingly the banality of evil.
The Pact deserves to be seen by more than hardcore horror fans. It generates a lot of tension, there are nasty shocks, and it’s good to see a writer-director trying to do something new with very familiar ingredients.
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