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It's a low budget horror movie, but not cheesy in the least. There is no cheesy fake blood and gore, no sex crazed teenagers, and no topples bubble headed blond's running from a psycho killer. No cheap thrills here, just a very complex and layered plot with plenty of twist and turns. The movie never once lost my attention nor did I ever get lost in the plot. The movie moved slow enough to build likable characters and to build up suspense, but also wasn't so slow that it lost my interest. I loved watching Annie as she went through the motions of loss and anger and then fear, and then ultimately the courage to discover clues and dig up old family secrets.

I saw this at Sundance 2012 and was spooked for days! It is so very well-done, and entertaining. The acting is spot-on, the writing and acting make you care about the characters, the drama is drawn out with the perfect pace that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up and the back-story is presented so well visually. The twist is scream-inducing and proves that the things that go bump in the night are not always in your imagination. Loved how the haunting, while scary, wasn't the immediate danger. Often, the human atrocities people inflict on each other are much more terrifying. The image of the shadow in the doorway is powerful.

One of the worst films I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of films. Is it a film about a haunting? Is it a film about a murderer? Its BOTH, and it does them badly!!! The lack of background music didn't help it either. The ghost side of the film doesn't really make any sense and the thriller side is totally lacking in thrill. If you want a better scary movie I recommend anything else...even Men In Black is scarier. There isn't enough depth in the characters and the acting isn't really any good. The 'family pictures' shown throughout the film are very badly put together and the plot is diabolical. The only credit I can give this awful film is the actresses chosen to portray the sisters do look quite similar. Very disappointed considering the amount of times the trailers are shown. The only explanation I can think of for this is that the film flopped in the US and the makers want to get as much money back as possible from the UK market. EDIT Just had a thought, where is this mystical PACT that the film is named after? It just makes no sense at all. I cant understand how some of the reviewers have rated this a 10!!! Maybe their mouse slipped or they have come from the past and this is the first film they have ever seen.

Again what's wrong with people on IMDb? This movie is absolutely horrible. Throughout the whole movie I felt like I was watching random people doing random stuff. 1: We don't know who anyone are, all we get to know is that two of the girls are sisters, and their mother is dead. 2: Why is their brother living under the house in a secret room? Maybe he got some kind of * for basements? 3: What pact? I don't see anything about a pact in this movie. 4: There is no emotions when Annie's sister and friend disappears, it's like the movie just keeps going like nothing happened. The same with the little girl. Her mom and nanny (or whoever she is) are dead but she's like whatever. 5: The last scene right before the movie ends makes no sense at all, but then again nothing in this movie did. I could do this for hours, but I think you get my point. This movie is rubbish.

According to the DVD box this is the scariest film of the year. Presumably 2012 which was full of disappointing horror films but The Pact was ironically one of the least scariest. In fact it's not actually scary at all and rather dull. Relying on the usual haunted house gimmicks which were once scary but nowadays aren't, as well as a storyline that is incredibly boring and stupid with a twist ending that is one of the most cinematically idiotic ever conceived. What is the Pact? Well there isn't one really it's just someones idea of a cool title that does not actually mean anything. Rather like 'based on a true story' which means that there is an actual country where the action takes place but other than that it's made up nonsense. Someone disappears in mysterious circumstances and some woman relative on a motorbike appears and after a traumatic experience with what seems like a ghost she rushes to the police. Nobody believes her but a detective who was the bloke from Starship Troopers (who ironically has the name of a famous ghost) who for no sensible reason other than he vaguely knew of the woman who disappeared as she got in trouble with the police lends a hand.They go back to the house and discover a hidden room which the police hilariously never noticed after the woman who disappeared from the house was reported missing. The biker woman then for no sensible reason calls on someone she vaguely knew from school who has super powers and can communicate with dead people by using torches as electricity attracts the spirits apparently. After a visit to the house we discover a ghostly presence for some unexplained reason is trying to tell the biker something. After another shock in a motel which ends up with the biker woman trying to flee on a bike in her underwear leaving behind the missing woman's daughter, who has nothing at all to do with the story really, she decides to investigate. A quick look on the Internet uncovers some information about a serial killer that once murdered someone in the town. An equally quick visit to a church ties it all together with someones dead mother. I was not really sure which of the characters was the woman's daughter but the mother seemed to be a bit of a nasty type who did something involving a cupboard which is never explained. After a phone call to the psychic woman we get the films climactic reveal which involves a Oiuja board sequence which is stupid and an even stupider shock ending. So what can we learn from The Pact. Basically ghosts are attracted to electricity which is a worry in these modern times, people with different coloured eyes are not to be trusted and film makers have far too much money to waste on complete toss like this.

One reviewer said there are no fake scares in this deplorable mess. The movie begins with the camera wobbling down a dimly lighted hallway to the tune of pounding music that leads up to the horrible climax of a door opening to reveal a pretty young woman waking up from a pleasant night's sleep. That's just the beginning and it's downhill all the way after that. Even the title is a mystery to me. Unless I missed something important (and I'm not going back to find out), nobody made any pacts that I'm aware of. Nobody. Who, especially when frightened, would go down a hall and walk into a tiny dark closet? We have a typical '50s tract rancho home. How many buyers had a neat blueprint of such a house even when new over sixty years ago? How many people need a blueprint of such a house to know exactly how many rooms it has? How many people some sixty years later have a spanking new blueprint of such a house in their purse? This could possibly have been a decent little story had those responsible not been over-tempted to include every little scary cliché in moviedom. Okay, they forgot the normally ubiquitous cat that jumps out. Aside from that, everything else was there. Pounding music at inappropriate moments, flickering lights, eerie noises and false scares (save for the cat). Alas the acting was wooden and expressionless. Where do they find investors dumb enough to put money into these projects? I'd like to get their phone numbers. We'll talk.

Going by the reviews, I assumed this movie would be neither horrific nor have much suspense. I was wrong! It is definitely not for the faint of heart. By the end of the movie, I was hoping for it to get over , not because it's bad,but because I was that scared! The lead actress has done a great job and the movie has a lot of thrills and chills. The supporting cast has also been chosen well, which makes the movie all the more believable and hence,scary. I am not a big horror fan ,but that said, horror movies don't easily scare me. But this one did and how! The pact will be a treat for the horror buffs. The rest, please look elsewhere. 9 points only because it does full justice to the horror-thriller-suspense genre.

While there are a couple of jump-out-of-your-seat moments, this film was fundamentally one of the most poorly composed films I've ever seen. Lots of elements in this film went unexplained and unaddressed. Poor writing, in my estimation. Egregious use of "deus ex machina" to avoid having to explain / give back history to people / places / events in the film. WARNING: Numerous spoilers from here down, so don't read if you're planning on watching the film. There are a host of unexplained elements in this film: What did the mother do to the daughters in the closet? What was her role in the hidden room / her brother? Surely the mother was his accomplice in the crimes, as she gave the murdered girl's cross to her daughter; like a serial-killer's trophy... so she had to know what her brother was... so why don't we get an explanation? How did he come to occupy the room? What was his back history / story? Why didn't he kill the girls so many years ago? Why is he in his mid to late 60's but looks like he's in his late 30's with abs and pecs like an athlete? Why does he always sit on the edge of the bed and cry? Honestly, this film felt like a director loaded a bunch of unrelated horror-film elements into the barrel of a shotgun, squeezed the trigger, and shot them in scatter-fashion out onto the silver screen. I have a hard time imagining anyone could be scared of this film, as no one could understand what was actually going on in the film. Overall, a big disappointment. The film was nothing like the teasers / trailers suggested.