Fresh
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.
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
The Pact
Some doors should never be opened.
2012 · 1h 29m · R
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Nicholas McCarthy
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The Pact
Overview
After their mother passes away, sisters Nicole and Annie reluctantly return to their childhood home to pay their last respects. While staying overnight in the house, the sisters sense a mysterious presence in their midst: noises startling them in the night, objects moving about, a fallen picture of an unknown woman posed next to their mother. Annie begins experiencing a series of intense and disturbing dreams - visions that lead her to uncover something terrible about her mother's past that is finally revealing itself.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
65%
Tomatometer
Fresh
McCarthy is clearly an economical director and what he gets on screen here - while hardly new - is still effective and occasionally creepy.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh
A tightly controlled low-budget chiller whose occasional moments of unexpected special effects are set up beautifully by long periods of suspense.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Fresh
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).
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh
In truth, there's nothing here we haven't seen before. But McCarthy, who also wrote the straightforward script, keeps the pace moving and the atmosphere eerie (if rarely terrifying).
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
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