Saturday, July 21, 2012

112 - The Pact

    After their mother dies, a pair of sisters return home.  One of them disappears.  The other one is left to investigate how that sister disappeared.  Supernatural forces seem to be at work in the house.
    This was a much more interesting movie than I expected.  It started a little slowly, and I thought it was going to have more content focused on brooding over objects in the house, but that seemed to be over with by the half hour mark.
    There are a lot of elements to the story that are predictable.  A psychic of some sort is brought in, and that played out almost exactly as I anticipated.  But the story does have a twist to the structure that makes it a little more satisfying than expected.
    I was a bit annoyed with the very end.  Tacking a scare onto the ending didn't make any sense in the context of this movie.
    I was also happy that the title remains a mystery for much of the movie, and is never explained explicitly.  While this might seem like a trivial point, wondering how the title figures into the story is something that keeps things interesting.

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