The Pact
The Pact is an American horror mystery thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written and directed by Nicholas McCarthy. The Pact has a very small set of characters, which is played by Caity Lotz, Casper van Dien, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Haley Hudson, Sam Ball, Mark Steger, Agnes Bruckner (whom we saw also in Breaking The Girls) and Dakota Bright.
The movie The Pact is about a lady who tries to investigate when her sister goes missing, but finds that the whole story is much more bigger than it appears.
Plot:
At the beginning of The Pact, we see a lady named Nicole, who is living alone, talks with her sister about coming to their mother’s funeral. Her sister, Annie, refuses to come to her abusive mother’s house and they have a little argument over it. Nicole then talks with her little girl who is living with one of Nicole’s cousin. Although Nicole is alone in the house, over the video chat, her daughter asks her about the man who is standing behind her. She looks back and finds no one there. Then she hears some noise in the closet. To check it, she enters there and disappears.
Her sister Annie comes to that house when Nicole is not found by anyone. Annie finds Nicole’s laptop and some other scattered things around the house. She also finds Nicole’s cell phone in the closet. On the next day, she attends her mother’s funeral where her cousin brings Nicole’s daughter. After the funeral, three of them comes back to the house and plans to stay the night there. Late at night Annie wakes up by some noise and finds some food lying on the floor of the kitchen. Her cousin seems missing. She tries to escape from the house taking Nicole’s daughter but some invisible force tries to keep her inside the house. She finally manages to escape with the little girl.
She goes to the police but nobody believes her. They indirectly suspect her for the missing case of Nicole and her cousin. But one officer offers her his help with investigating this case. She stays the night at a hotel, where she finds a massage about a place that has come to her phone last night. She checks the map with her phone and finds a woman’s photo there. That night, she has a nightmare about the decapitated body of that lady and some force which is keeping her inside the room.
On the next morning, with the help of the police officer, she discovers a hidden room in her late mother’s house. The room has holes on the walls to see all around the house. The officer can’t find much in there. So she then visits one of her high school friend, who is a strange blind girl with some sort of paranormal power. Annie then takes the girl and her caretaker to the house. The girl finds someone’s presence in the room and at one point starts screaming the name ‘Judas’. Referring Annie’s mother, she also says that she didn’t want anyone to know. Then she becomes sick and her caretaker takes her back from there. They all also see the ghost of a lady.
Annie does some research online and finds out that Judas is a serial killer who is responsible for some killings, including a teacher in the nearby area. She finally finds that, the victim of Judas is the lady who’s ghost she has seen in the house. She has also seen some photos of that lady with her mother. She then finds that her mother had a brother about whom they don’t know. In the meantime, the police officer finds some strange sign in one of the photos taken in that house. He goes there to investigate, but gets killed by someone.
Annie calls her friend again about the mystery. Taking her suggestions, Anny goes to that hidden room again to find the concealed truth about the house, her mother and about Judas.
My review about The Pact:
First of all, I liked this movie The Pact. The whole movie seemed well written and well directed.
The plot of The Pact is actually good and attractive. At first, it started as a ghost story, then moved the momentum to some kind of a detective one and ends in mixing these two types. And the blend of these two seemed really good. But I must say, the director has cleverly avoided making everything clear in The Pact. Some of the mysteries are kept open to the viewers’ imagination. In the whole movie, not much of the characters’ background is shown and the focus is always fixed to the current events. The screenplay of The Pact is also brilliant.
Other than the ghost parts, some other parts are there on The Pact also which didn’t seem much realistic, like, how a man can stay hidden for so many years, what has happened to Nicole and her cousin and so on. But these things will not harm your viewing experience of The Pact at all.
The acting of all the characters in The Pact were pretty good. The dialogues were okay as well. The special effects, specially when Annie was being pulled in the air was brilliant. The make ups were also good, specially of Judas’s. The leading character, Annie was an eye candy.
The horror elements in The Pact were good enough to scare anyone. As this movie concentrates on the detective story also, so it was not full of horror scenes. But whatever is there, will give you a good thrill. The Pact keeps the tension high from the beginning to the end. Some scenes were scary enough to give you a chill down your spine.
The lighting, camera works and the sound effects were nothing more or less than the perfect.
There is no nudity in The Pact. So, other than some graphic scenes, the whole movie is okay for children.
So, overall, The Pact is a good horror thriller. We usually don’t get to see such a worthy horror movie everyday. I’d recommend watching The Pact to all movie fans.
What are your comments about The Pact? Share in the comments.
To know more about it:
IMDB link: The Pact movie IMDB
Wikipedia Link: The Pact movie Wiki
Additional resource: This page has a director’s interview about The Pact. Don’t see this if you haven’t already watched this movie, because it contains spoiler. But after watching the movie, this interview should help you to find some answers. The link is : http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3202946/director-nicholas-mccarthy-ties-up-loose-ends-on-the-pact/
Ending Explanation of The Pact :
This part contains spoiler, so I’ve written the below in white font. Don’t read this if you haven’t watched The Pact. To make it visible, select the below paragraph with your mouse:
The same color of Judas and Annie’s eye suggest that, Judas is Annie’s father. We get this hint when her cousin talks about Annie’s eyes color and says that her mother didn’t have them, so they must’ve came from her father. Judas actually dies at the end, what Annie saw after that was her dream. And the name “The Pact” refers to the pact between Annie’s mother and Judas.
The Pact is an American horror mystery thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written and directed by Nicholas McCarthy. The Pact has a very small set of characters, which is played by Caity Lotz, Casper van Dien, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Haley Hudson, Sam Ball, Mark Steger, Agnes Bruckner (whom we saw also in Breaking The Girls) and Dakota Bright.
The movie The Pact is about a lady who tries to investigate when her sister goes missing, but finds that the whole story is much more bigger than it appears.
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| A scene from the movie The Pact |
Plot:
At the beginning of The Pact, we see a lady named Nicole, who is living alone, talks with her sister about coming to their mother’s funeral. Her sister, Annie, refuses to come to her abusive mother’s house and they have a little argument over it. Nicole then talks with her little girl who is living with one of Nicole’s cousin. Although Nicole is alone in the house, over the video chat, her daughter asks her about the man who is standing behind her. She looks back and finds no one there. Then she hears some noise in the closet. To check it, she enters there and disappears.
Her sister Annie comes to that house when Nicole is not found by anyone. Annie finds Nicole’s laptop and some other scattered things around the house. She also finds Nicole’s cell phone in the closet. On the next day, she attends her mother’s funeral where her cousin brings Nicole’s daughter. After the funeral, three of them comes back to the house and plans to stay the night there. Late at night Annie wakes up by some noise and finds some food lying on the floor of the kitchen. Her cousin seems missing. She tries to escape from the house taking Nicole’s daughter but some invisible force tries to keep her inside the house. She finally manages to escape with the little girl.
She goes to the police but nobody believes her. They indirectly suspect her for the missing case of Nicole and her cousin. But one officer offers her his help with investigating this case. She stays the night at a hotel, where she finds a massage about a place that has come to her phone last night. She checks the map with her phone and finds a woman’s photo there. That night, she has a nightmare about the decapitated body of that lady and some force which is keeping her inside the room.
On the next morning, with the help of the police officer, she discovers a hidden room in her late mother’s house. The room has holes on the walls to see all around the house. The officer can’t find much in there. So she then visits one of her high school friend, who is a strange blind girl with some sort of paranormal power. Annie then takes the girl and her caretaker to the house. The girl finds someone’s presence in the room and at one point starts screaming the name ‘Judas’. Referring Annie’s mother, she also says that she didn’t want anyone to know. Then she becomes sick and her caretaker takes her back from there. They all also see the ghost of a lady.
Annie does some research online and finds out that Judas is a serial killer who is responsible for some killings, including a teacher in the nearby area. She finally finds that, the victim of Judas is the lady who’s ghost she has seen in the house. She has also seen some photos of that lady with her mother. She then finds that her mother had a brother about whom they don’t know. In the meantime, the police officer finds some strange sign in one of the photos taken in that house. He goes there to investigate, but gets killed by someone.
Annie calls her friend again about the mystery. Taking her suggestions, Anny goes to that hidden room again to find the concealed truth about the house, her mother and about Judas.
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| A scene from the movie The Pact |
My review about The Pact:
First of all, I liked this movie The Pact. The whole movie seemed well written and well directed.
The plot of The Pact is actually good and attractive. At first, it started as a ghost story, then moved the momentum to some kind of a detective one and ends in mixing these two types. And the blend of these two seemed really good. But I must say, the director has cleverly avoided making everything clear in The Pact. Some of the mysteries are kept open to the viewers’ imagination. In the whole movie, not much of the characters’ background is shown and the focus is always fixed to the current events. The screenplay of The Pact is also brilliant.
Other than the ghost parts, some other parts are there on The Pact also which didn’t seem much realistic, like, how a man can stay hidden for so many years, what has happened to Nicole and her cousin and so on. But these things will not harm your viewing experience of The Pact at all.
The acting of all the characters in The Pact were pretty good. The dialogues were okay as well. The special effects, specially when Annie was being pulled in the air was brilliant. The make ups were also good, specially of Judas’s. The leading character, Annie was an eye candy.
The horror elements in The Pact were good enough to scare anyone. As this movie concentrates on the detective story also, so it was not full of horror scenes. But whatever is there, will give you a good thrill. The Pact keeps the tension high from the beginning to the end. Some scenes were scary enough to give you a chill down your spine.
The lighting, camera works and the sound effects were nothing more or less than the perfect.
There is no nudity in The Pact. So, other than some graphic scenes, the whole movie is okay for children.
So, overall, The Pact is a good horror thriller. We usually don’t get to see such a worthy horror movie everyday. I’d recommend watching The Pact to all movie fans.
What are your comments about The Pact? Share in the comments.
To know more about it:
IMDB link: The Pact movie IMDB
Wikipedia Link: The Pact movie Wiki
Additional resource: This page has a director’s interview about The Pact. Don’t see this if you haven’t already watched this movie, because it contains spoiler. But after watching the movie, this interview should help you to find some answers. The link is : http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3202946/director-nicholas-mccarthy-ties-up-loose-ends-on-the-pact/
Ending Explanation of The Pact :
This part contains spoiler, so I’ve written the below in white font. Don’t read this if you haven’t watched The Pact. To make it visible, select the below paragraph with your mouse:
The same color of Judas and Annie’s eye suggest that, Judas is Annie’s father. We get this hint when her cousin talks about Annie’s eyes color and says that her mother didn’t have them, so they must’ve came from her father. Judas actually dies at the end, what Annie saw after that was her dream. And the name “The Pact” refers to the pact between Annie’s mother and Judas.
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