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The Covenant (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 66
Fresh: 2
Rotten:64
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Consensus: A fangless teen warlock pic, The Covenant takes the 'super' out of supernatural. Oh, and let's not forget the word "natural," since the film's stars may be good-looking, but their acting has been charitably described as 'wooden.' Add to that an absence of scares and pervasive homophobia, and you've got one of the year's worst.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release: Sep 8, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $23,292,105
Synopsis: Renny Harlin (DIE HARD 2, DEEP BLUE SEA) directs this supernatural thriller about descendants of powerful New England families. The sons of Ipswich are legendary at Spenser Academy, the local... [More]
Starring: Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Toby Hemingway, Chace Crawford
Director: Renny Harlin
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Reviews for The Covenant
It's a horror film for the MTV generation, a horror film for the audience of "Laguna Beach"...
07/10/07
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05/12/07
Top Critic ... this falls well short of the Buffy-level resonances at which [Harlin] was presumably aiming.
01/27/07
The inclusion of a romantic subplot that feels as though it'd be more at home in a Harlequin novel...
01/09/07
The Covenant looks less like a movie and more like an extended boy band video -- and with about the same amount of depth.
01/02/07
Flying scenes, frat-boy face-offs and pyrotechnic punch-ups are punctuated by excruciating expository dialogue.
12/30/06
A patently silly supernatural teen drama, in which a bunch of Young Hollywood types flex their abs and aim their perfectly-calibrated glances at each other.
12/30/06
Daft but nonetheless enjoyable supernatural thriller, featuring some hilariously bad dialogue, impressive special effects and some genuinely creepy scenes.
12/30/06
Director Renny Harlin helms like a bat out of hell, and obviously doesn't know a pentagram from a mammogram.
12/30/06
Utterly stupid and full of lazy plotting and lazier dialogue, this is just idiotic enough to entertain on nights when you want to give your brain a rest.
12/30/06
O máximo que este O Pacto consegue é transformar-se, em seus instantes finais, em uma espécie de Mortal Kombat para imbecis. E, ainda assim, com dificuldade.
11/23/06
It's not a work of originality and the handheld camerawork gets tedious, but let's hope the message that power corrupts gets through
11/10/06
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10/13/06
Top Critic "A truly lacklustre direct-to-video teen thriller filled with corny effects, chiseled jaw stares and a lot of hokum about Salem witchcraft"
10/10/06
More nonsensical than scary, THE COVENANT conjures a cautionary tale for prep school pretties.
10/01/06
The film is not at all suspenseful or creepy, and the cast was apparently chosen for looks rather than acting ability.
10/01/06
There are worse things for a horror-thriller about supernatural high-schoolers to not be. Like not scary. Or not thrilling. Or not as entertaining as an episode of Charmed.
09/30/06
Surely nothing Hollywood did in its darkest, most debauched hour could possibly justify the penance we're paying that allows Renny Harlin to continue directing movies.
09/30/06
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