Nicholas McCarthy’s feature adaption of his short film ‘The Pact’ wrapped earlier this month. Content Media acquired the rights to the new spooky thriller and now a extended plot synopsis has appeared over at their official site. In addition to this update Bloody disgusting revealed a neat old school style teaser poster also. Kathleen Rose Perkins, Caity Lotz (‘Death Valley’), Haley Hudson, Casper Van Dien (‘Starship Troopers 3: Marauder’), Agnes Bruckner (‘Blood and Chocolate’) and Sam Ball ‘The Event’ all star. Check out the new plot and teaser below.
“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.”
Early Teaser For ‘The Pact’
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