The Pact
Director: Nicholas McCarthy
Writer: Nicholas McCarthy
Cast: Caity Lotz, Caspar Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner, Mark Steger, Haley Hudson, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Sam Ball
Part of: /slash Filmfestival

Plot:
After the death of her abusive mother, Annie (Caity Lotz) returns to her house for the first time after many years to clean it out with her sister Nichole (Agnes Bruckner). But when Annie arrives, Nichole is gone. And there seems to be something weird going on generally in the house. As Nichole is trying to figure things out, strange things keep happening.

The Pact was creepy and very tense. Unfortunately it suffered from an incredibly weak and completely unbelievable ending.

Nicholas McCarthy really manages to mount the tension and keep it. There were several moments where I physically flinched or was just creeped the fuck out. It really was effective.

Unfortunately there were also several things that didn’t work out so well for me. There were a couple of plot holes (where is the child during most of the movie? [SPOILER] why did nobody notice that an entire room was missing in this freaking house? I mean, I know my family is rather obsessed with houses and moving and planning and rearranging furniture, but an entire fucking room in the middle of the house walled off – you notice those things. [/SPOILER]) and as I said, I just couldn’t believe the ending – that was just an improbable twist.

I also didn’t really get why the two-colored eyes were that important. I must have missed something there. Or it just didn’t make sense. And the blind medium was just so very much cliché, though in a very creepy incarnation.

But apart from that – and the frankly mediocre acting at best – the movie really was a great watch. I liked that Annie got to kick butt and solve the story mostly on her own. [I’m not that sold on the moral message of the ending in that regard, though, but the ending generally was the film’s weakest part.] Very enjoyable.

Summarising: Very much okay.