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The Pact

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Disturbing visions and her sister's disappearance lead a woman (Caity Lotz) to call a cop (Casper Van Dien) and a psychic to her childhood home.

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Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times The explanations for what has been going on are weird, fantastical and sort of reasonable, within the context of the story, maintaining the film's sense of grounded directness up to the very end. Rated: 3.5/5 Jul 12, 2012 Full Review Kyle Smith New York Post A tightly controlled low-budget chiller whose occasional moments of unexpected special effects are set up beautifully by long periods of suspense. Rated: 2.5/4 Jul 6, 2012 Full Review Manohla Dargis New York Times In the end, like a lot of genre movies, this one pulls from different inspirations, and so weighs in, by turns, as overly predictable and satisfyingly recognizable (part of genre cinema's one-two punch). Rated: 3/5 Jul 5, 2012 Full Review Rita Cannon Battleship Pretension The Pact takes its time revealing anything specific about the horrors that hide in the family's house. For most of its running time, we don't have a good idea what Annie is up against, which makes the slow trickle of clues that much more tantalizing. Mar 10, 2021 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Desperately underwhelming. Jul 25, 2019 Full Review C.J. Prince Way Too Indie There is a lot of potential shown in The Pact, but the clunky writing and bombardment of clichés end up overshadowing the better qualities of the film. Rated: 6.2/10 Jul 3, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Korra N Fairly solid indie thriller with good acting, some genuinely great cinematography for a tiny budget & taut direction, but the writing at times becomes in-your-face with exposition & lines that sound scripted. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/12/25 Full Review Jenesis J The suspense had my heart racing. It’s hard to find good horror/suspense movies. This one was pretty good. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/23/25 Full Review Michael A It's not everyday you run into a movie that gets it. You need to be scared by a horror movie well after it's done. The low-budget and good pacing of this film leaves a pretty lasting impression that at least makes you think there's hope for the horror genre. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/11/25 Full Review Orlando C Wow, this was almost a perfect movie. Great acting, an amazing story with an incredible plot twist, efficient pacing, great scares, chilling to the bone. But then the last 5 minutes was a fly in the soup. Stop watching it @ the 1:22 mark when the car is going down the highway. Enjoy and relish what you saw and don't look back! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/04/25 Full Review Goran G B flick with so many plot holes, but also with many very well shot horror scenes. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/31/24 Full Review John C The Pact is a story about a woman who loses her mother and spends a large proportion of the film wandering round various apartments on her own. Sometimes spooky stuff happens, but sadly not much. She just wanders around. Sometimes she talks to herself. Sometimes she phones a friend and leaves a voicemail message. Once she even spoke to her daughter via webcam. Every so often, something would go bump somewhere in her apartment. I think that was my cue to be scared. I wasn't. Nice atmosphere and sense of foreboding dread - pity nothing much happened. It's like the first (duller) half of Paranormal Activity (1), only without the second exciting half added on to it. Oh, and Starship Troopers' former poster boy Casper Van Dian is in it. And he looks waay too old to be in the mobile infantry and more. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/23/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Nicholas McCarthy

Director

Caity Lotz

Annie

Casper Van Dien

Creek

Haley Hudson

Stevie

Agnes Bruckner

Nicole

Mark Steger

Charles

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Synopsis Disturbing visions and her sister's disappearance lead a woman (Caity Lotz) to call a cop (Casper Van Dien) and a psychic to her childhood home.
Director
Nicholas McCarthy
Producer
Ross M. Dinerstein
Screenwriter
Nicholas McCarthy
Distributor
IFC Films
Production Co
Preferred Content, Pathé Thuis
Rating
R (Strong Bloody Violence|Language)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 6, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 5, 2016
Runtime
1h 29m
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