Annie (Caity Lotz) reluctantly comes home for her mother's funeral. Only to find her sister Nicole has disapered in her mother's house and later, so does her cousin Liz.
Spooky things are happening at the house, it seems to have a malevolent past.
Annie goes to the police and then to a psychic. The film consists of mainly bland characters.
The film has a few tense scenes but it is really a generic horror thriller. Some of it makes no sense, especially there being no pact of any kind.
The Pact
2012
Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
The Pact
2012
Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Plot summary
Nichole Barlow comes to San Pedro with her daughter Eva to attend the funeral of her mother. She calls her estranged sister Annie to help her to resolve pending businesses, but Annie is too traumatized with the bad treatment spent by their mother and does not want to return to their childhood home. Nichole convinces her sister to come and she arrives to the funeral. However, Nichole goes missing and Eva stays with Nichole's cousin Liz. When Liz also disappears, Annie claims that supernatural events happen in the house but she becomes the prime-suspect. The open-minded detective Bill Creek assumes the investigation and realizes that there is something weird in the house. Meanwhile Annie summons the medium Stevie believing that the ghost of her mother is responsible for the vanishing of Nichole and Liz. But the woman warns Annie that there is a great danger in the house. Annie decides to go further in her investigation and discovers dark secrets from the past of her family.
Uploaded by: OTTO
Director
Top cast
Casper Van Dien as Creek
Caity Lotz as Annie
Agnes Bruckner as Nichole
Kathleen Rose Perkins as Liz
Tech specs
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 700.36 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
R
Movie Reviews
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No pact
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Typical ghost tale that lacks bite
THE PACT is a spin on the classic haunted house tale that mixes in a serial killer sub-plot for good measure. Unfortunately it doesn't turn out to be very good; the source material is very familiar and predictable and the characterisation just isn't strong enough for the viewer to care about what's going on.
Although the film strives hard to build some frightening sequences, the fear factor just wasn't there for me. There's lots of slow wandering through dimly-lit rooms and shadowy menace stuff but I was never drawn into the tale and none of it was remotely frightening. It doesn't help that the characters are unremarkable and rather unlikeable, aside from Casper Van Dien's detective who shows up in support but has far too little screen time. Maybe with him as the lead it would have been a better deal; as it stands this is distinctly humdrum.
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muddled first half, better second half
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.