{Movie}: The Pact

The Pact

Directed by: Nicholas McCarthy

Starring: Caity Lotz, Casper van Dien, Haley Hudson

Genre: Thriller, Horror

Rated: R

Year: 2012

Thoughts: Beware! Warning! This may contain spoilers!

While on StumbleUpon, I learned about this movie from a top 5 unknown good horror movies on Netflix. I must say, while I certainly did not know about this movie, I don't think that this film was as good as that blogger said. I give credit to the film for lots of mysterious disappearances. But the format of the movie sorta follows a similar path. A family with a bad past. A haunted house. A ghost - who turns out to be good and just wants to help. And a murderer. Oh, and for the sake of it, throw in a child to make it a little more heartfelt. 

The film focuses on a family, who's mother just passes away. The two daughters go back to the house, which holds bad memories for them, and in an attempt to help out, clean and pack the house. However, one daughter goes missing, and soon after visiting the house, their cousin goes missing too. So it comes down to a paranormal mystery - find the missing characters and figure out what the heck the ghost wants.

There were some jump scares in the movie, but they weren't that good, or they would have been worse if the music wasn't there. This film had your basic medium, police officer, and innocent child. There also were typical dragging scenes, Ouija board, and anti- gravity moment. And each one of those moments weren't particularly memorable either... the dragging scenes weren't meant to be super scary, the Ouija board was very typical, and the anti-gravity scene was just that... it looked like she was badly learning to fly.

The film wasn't entirely bad, the mystery behind the idea was interesting. The main character had to find where her sister and cousin had disappeared to - spoiler they die. But also, she starts to learn that the ghost is trying to protect her from something. And lo and behold a new aspect of the mystery is added. However, there are some parts of the movie I still didn't understand after finishing it. For example, why is it called The Pact. As far as I knew, there was no reference to a pact, let alone how Judas's victim and Annie's mother are friends. Next, how did the Judas killer become known as a serial killer if it was only one ghost and one victim that we learned off. Also, how does the two different colored eyes mean anything? I know that Annie has two different colored eyes, which they only make a big deal of after we realize that Judas also has two different colored eyes. So are they not niece and uncle? Are they child and father? No idea... Also, at the very end, an eye is shown opening. However, I wasn't sure who's eye this was... considering that Judas is supposed to be dead - I mean we see him get shot.

Rating: 4/10

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