The Pact (II) (2012)

As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother's death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.

Director:

Nicholas McCarthy

Writer:

Nicholas McCarthy

Stars:

Caity Lotz, Mark Steger, Agnes Bruckner

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview:
Caity Lotz	...	Annie
Kathleen Rose Perkins	...	Liz
Haley Hudson	...	Stevie
Sam Ball	...	Giles
Mark Steger	...	Charles Barlow
Agnes Bruckner	...	Nichole
Casper Van Dien	...	Creek
Dakota Bright	...	Eva
Petra Wright	...	Jennifer Glick
Sam Zuckerman	...	County Clerk
Anjini Taneja Azhar	...	Hindi Child (as Anjini Azhar)
Rachael Kahne	...	Waitress

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

beheading | stalker | police officer | police officer stabbed | assailant | 

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Taglines:

Some doors should never be opened.

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some strong bloody violence and language

Details

Official Sites:

Screamworks Records [se]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 June 2012 (Ireland)

Also Known As:

I symfonia

Filming Locations:

San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Preferred Content

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The camera that the officer, played by Casper Van Dien, is using to examine the house is a Canon model 7D - a cropped-frame DSLR popular with sports and bird photographers.

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Goofs

When Annie is looking at old photographs in the church the camera is briefly reflected in the vitrine.

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Connections

Remake of The Pact (2011)

User Reviews

Low budget chiller is effective and entertaining.

The Pact is an effective and very creepy, at times, supernatural mystery chiller that achieves a lot of atmosphere on it's small budget. Flick is about Annie (Caity Lotz) who arrives at her recently deceased mother's house to meet her sister Nicole (Agnes Bruckner) for the funeral. But Nicole is missing and soon strange things start happening in the house and Annie finds clues about their mother, a mysterious woman and a serial killer case from decades before. What does it all mean and what does this supernatural presence want? Pact is very effective at times and actually provides us with a nice mystery to go along with the things that go bump in the night. The atmosphere of dread is well maintained and the cast, including genre vet Casper Van Dien as a grizzled cop, all do well with the material. There are some very spooky sequences and some good scares and it all leads to a tense and suspenseful last act. The FX are refreshingly all in camera and work well, only a few dragging effects get overused a bit by the end. An enjoyable little horror/mystery from writer/director Nicholas McCarthy.