The Pact (2012)

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

Director:

Nicholas McCarthy

Writer:

Nicholas McCarthy

Stars:

Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Mark Steger

2 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Caity Lotz	...	Annie
Kathleen Rose Perkins	...	Liz
Haley Hudson	...	Stevie
Sam Ball	...	Giles
Mark Steger	...	Charles Barlow / Judas
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
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Boriana Williams	...	Child

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:

hair tied to something | tied feet | stepping on glass | salon | cutting hair | 

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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 [Sweden]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 June 2012 (UK)

Also Known As:

El pacto

Filming Locations:

San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$400,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$7,200,000

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 goes in the church and sees pictures of her mother on the wall there's a picture that says it was in 1989 but the kid in the black shirt is wearing a DCSHOES hat. That company wasn't founded until 1993.

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Quotes

Eva: [on a video feed] Mommy! Who's that behind you?

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Connections

References Halloween (1978)

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Soundtracks

Strawberry Blonde
Written by Cary Berger, Sam Zuckerman, David Paige (as Dave Paige) and Nicholas McCarthy
Performed by Jules et Jim

User Reviews

Highly underrated, should be at least 6.5 rating.

Okay, sure, it's not a groundbreaking horror film (what is nowadays?), but I found myself enjoying it. I usually don't watch films below a 6.0 IMDb rating (yeah, yeah, I'm a ratings wh***, shut up). But I was really in the mood for a horror movie and decided to give this a try. Yeah, it's a traditional story and somewhat predictable, but the modern "offbeat" characters kept it interesting. I agree with the user that says it starts off a bit weak/slow, but the rest of the story kept me intrigued. I've seen (modern) horror movies that are far worse than this that have higher ratings so give it a try if you enjoy modern horror.