Review of The Pact (2012) by Shaun O — 22 Jun 2012

This film failed to shock, engage or even interest me. Generally the audience is supposed to get a basic idea of the plot in the first 5 - 10 minutes, this didn't happen. After 10 minutes you work out that there is Lotz' mother passed and she's going to the funeral. In my opinion the plot was like an engine being started up, the key being turned and when you think the story is gonna start, it cuts out.

Moving onto the characters.. Uninspired, and relatively emotionless acting, the only thing the actors managed to act was surprised and fearful and even that was poorly displayed. The leading lady had no emotion, she did not grieve in any way to her sister, cousin or mother. Almost as if she had forgotten and realised she had a puzzle to solve.

The direction was good, camera angles, the display of the abnormal thing to feel frightened of, the the lighting etc. although with a bad script these things are almost obsolete. Although, obviously changing a short film to a 90 minute movie there is going to be so space left to fill, which is this movies biggest problem. Despite the few good scares this film did have the massive boring parts in between were more prominent, which unfortunately almost put me to sleep at one point.

I would suggest that no one watch this movie from this point on so that the writer might be inspired to write something at least vaguely interesting. I believe that the horror genre is pretty much dead, with stuff like this drivel being made. We need fresh ideas and a few fresh faces perhaps because even the old school writers of some great scripts are writing derivative crap that could be churned out by any film buff that could re-write every horror cliche into one script.

This movie was horrifying and not in the way you'd want!