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By Cleaver Patterson (26) for CineVue (2,163) on 07 Jan 2019

Where other films however may have fallen flat by rehashing old clichés, The Pact appears fresh by keeping much of its horror hidden until…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 20 Nov 2015

The Pact fizzles out significantly as it marches towards its rather generic final act…

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By Scott Weinberg (1,998) for TheHorrorShow (174) on 25 Aug 2015

Manages to deliver a decent combination of supernatural and practical horrors…

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By Witney Seibold (272) for CraveOnline (813) on 24 Aug 2012

Quite easily, one of the scariest films I've seen in a long while... It's a corker…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 14 Jul 2012

Debut director Nicholas McCarthy possesses a good grasp of effective, tension-building technique in this psychologically rooted chiller, in…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 14 Jul 2012

The film has some cheap thrills ... but lacks more sustained tension…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 05 Jul 2012

A satisfying ghost story without leaning too hard into trends…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 05 Jul 2012

McCarthy is clearly an economical director and what he gets on screen here - while hardly new - is still effective and occasionally creepy…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 05 Jul 2012

Familiar elements such as a dark family secret, a ghost and a Ouija board start to seem trite after a while, and the third act is a little…

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By David Guzman (7) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Jul 2012

The best thing The Pact has going for it is the way it manages to play its cards right, despite the fact that it doesn't have many aces up its sleeve…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 04 Jul 2012

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…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 04 Jul 2012

For her part, Lotz carries the load with such briskly efficient confidence, it's no surprise to learn that she's already got several more movies…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Jul 2012

More horror movies set in the 21st century ought to integrate technology into their scares as well as Nicholas McCarthy's The Pact…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jul 2012

A musty ghost story that morphs into a sluggish serial-killer mystery, Nicholas McCarthy's film tries to distinguish itself by minimizing dialogue…

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By Sam Adams (514) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Jul 2012

Lotz's grudging fortitude provides enough engagement to let you overlook the cracks in the film's facade, but when she cedes the screen to…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 01 Jul 2012

[VIDEO ESSAY] The Pact is a horror movie with training wheels. It's for audiences who have never seen one before and don't want to be too scared…

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By Calum Marsh (242) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Jul 2012

When The Pact descends, finally, from suggestion to explication, the scares regrettably slink away…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Jun 2012

The Pact demonstrates both why people respond to horror and why it's so routinely scorned…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 30 Jun 2012

Nicholas McCarthy's The Pact is a horror film developed from a short, and unfortunately it splits apart while being stretched out to feature length…

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By Paul Bradshaw (60) for Total Film (3,532) on 30 Jun 2012

It works hard, and the first half hour is textbook creepy, but the oldschool grab-bag of shocks struggles to jolt a dour script to life…

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