So last Friday we let you know production on Nicholas McCarthy’s horror joint THE PACT had been completed. Remember, McCarthy’s the cat wisely transforming his Sundance short into a full-length feature.
Four days later, we now have an extended synopsis for THE PACT, as well as a new promo poster for the film. As you can see, a cool retro style is implemented, with a grainy washed out image of a lone female in the woods. I’m definitely diggin’ it!
Starring Caity Lotz (below), Casper Van Dien, Haley Hudson, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Sam Ball and Agnes Bruckner:
Based on Nicholas McCarthy’s acclaimed spine-chilling Sundance 2011 short, and from the Producer of Xavier Gens’ SXSW sensation THE DIVIDE, comes a terrifying ghost story in the classic horror tradition of Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, Argento’s SUSPIRIA and Nakata’s RINGU…
When their mother dies, sisters Annie and Nicole finally begin to face their disturbing childhood, and the time they spent locked in the ‘punishment room.’ Soon Nicole visits her mother’s house to deal with the estate and spend the night — and mysteriously vanishes. Annie reluctantly returns home and begins rooting through her mother’s belongings for answers, happening upon a picture of her mother standing beside an unknown young woman, and feeling an eerie presence…
Soon their cousin Liz, charged with caring for Nicole’s infant daughter Eva, joins Annie in the house, and all seems relatively calm — until Liz too disappears in the middle of the night. Desperately searching the house for her, Annie suddenly feels a hand grip the back of her neck before being brutally attacked by a violent, unseen force. Escaping with Eva and scared for her life, Annie’s frantic search for clues continues while she begins to experience visions of a mysterious figure hunched over, head in hands, rocking…
Unfolding like an intensely atmospheric and horrifying nightmare, with an extraordinary twist that will shock and surprise even the most well versed of horror fans, THE PACT delves into secrets so sinister, so deeply unsettling, so downright scary, that audiences will experience the true meaning of fear right up to the final unforgettable frame.
Sounds pretty intense, ay? Certainly a welcome title around these parts.
More on THE PACT as we rake it…