The Pact (2012)

Director: Nicholas McCarthy

Starring: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Mark Steger

As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother’s death and the disappearance of her sister, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.

This ultra low budget film turned out to be a very freaky and very well made demonic/haunting mystery thriller, with some genuinely frightening scenes. The film has an incredible amount of detail given the low budget. The acting was very good and the film continuously had a haunting feel to it, with the focus being a cupboard down the hall. It was interesting as Annie (Caity Lotz) investigated the mystery herself, as the police did not believe her and thought she had something to do with her sister’s disappearance. She discovers her mother had a brother, who she didn’t know about, and that the brother might be the serial killer Judas, who is still haunting the house.

The film doesn’t really give closure as to what happened to her sister, but given the other characters’ fate, we can only assume she suffered the same fate. I can’t really connect the film’s title to anything in the film, though, so not sure why it is called ‘The Pact’.

‘The Pact’ earned $7.2 million on a $400,000 budget. It was also nominated for Best Horror.