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The sequel to The Pact centers on a young woman who investigates an incident that took place in a house where a previous occupant unwittingly summoned the Devil.
Want To Know What ‘The Pact 2′ Is About?
Things have been quiet on The Pact 2 front for a few months. But now that things are gearing up, we’ve got an official synopsis (via STYD) for the sequel that Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath wrote and will direct.
“Only a few weeks after Annie Barlow exterminated the plague that was the Judas Killer, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life in Los Angeles is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life. When Special Agent Kevin Dickey, the FBI agent assigned to wrap up the case of the newly deceased Judas Killer shows up at June’s door, he brings with him some terrifying news – there is a Judas copycat killer on the loose in her neighborhood! In the course of his investigation, Dickey shows June a picture of the copycat killer’s victim, and she is stunned to see that it’s the same woman she saw brutally murdered in her nightmares.
A series of hauntings begin to torment June, growing in frequency and ferocity over time. Now, not only does she see murder victims, but her dreams put herself in the role of the murderer. June fears that the spirit of the Judas Killer is the architect of some greater plan in which she must now play a part. June struggles to maintain her grip on sanity as she plunges into her own investigation of these events. No matter the result, the truth will be horrifying either there is true evil inside of her, or someone, or something, is determined to destroy her… IT’S NOT OVER.”
The Pact 2 starts shooting this Spring.
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Director Nicholas McCarthy Ties Up Loose Ends On ‘The Pact’
If you haven’t watched The Pact, you may want to skip this until you do. SPOILERS FOLLOW.
Otherwise: I disagreed with some of the more critical reviews out on The Pact. I found it, above all imperfections, to be an effective, well executed chiller. After its recent DVD release, however, several people I’d chatted with were expressing a similar point of view, and confusion. “It was creepy as F—, but what the hell was with the ending?” Usually I’m pretty good at figuring out these subtleties, but after some hard thought, I had to agree – while a couple of the shock sequences certainly took my breath away, the film left me with some questions that I couldn’t answer.
What was “the pact”?
What was with the blue eye/green eye – was there a meaning behind that?
Was Judas still alive?
I got in touch with the film’s director, Nicholas McCarthy, and asked him directly. It opened up a great conversation about the head-in-the-curtain hotel scene, some films that inspired these moments, and above all, some very honest and direct answers to the questions left behind. READ MORE
[AFM '12] ‘The Pact’ Director Finds A ‘Home,’ ‘Stung,’ And ‘Ginger Snaps’ Director’s ‘Orphan Black’
Celluloid Dreams will kick off sales at the AFM next week on a pair of genre titles from Los Angeles-based XYZ Films, says Screen Daily. Home is Nicholas McCarthy’s follow-up to Sundance 2012 hit The Pact (pictured). “It centres on a young woman who investigates an incident that took place in a house where a previous occupant unwittingly summoned the Devil.” The pic, which is NOT a sequel but a new film, is in pre-production. Sonny Mallhi, who served as executive producer on The Strangers, will produce.
Benni Diez will direct Stung from a screenplay by Adam Aresty about “A garden party that turns sour when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven-foot tall predators.” They are eyeing a March 2013 start in Europe.
Lastly, THR reports that “The Tudors”‘ Maria Doyle Kennedy has joined the cast of “Orphan Black,” the BBC America and Space sci-fi series from Canadian producer Temple Street Productions. Dylan Bruce and Jordan Gavaris have also been added to the first season shoot of 10 one-hour episodes to debut in 2013. “Orphan Black,” which will star Tatiana Maslany, is shooting on location in Toronto through February 2013. The series, co-created by Graeme Manson and Ginger Snaps director John Fawcett, portrays Sarah (Maslany), an outsider and orphan whose life changes on assuming the identity of a dead stranger who looks just like her. Kevin Hanchard, Michael Mando, Elizabeth Saunders and Ron Lea round out the main cast for “Orphan Black.” Watch the promo trailer inside. READ MORE
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[Interview] Casper Van Dien On Working With Nicholas McCarthy To Bring ‘The Pact’ To Life
Nicholas McCarthy’s Sundance hit, The Pact (review), is a supernatural horror pic that stars Caity Lotz (“Mad Men”), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers, Sleepy Hollow) and Agnes Bruckner (The Woods).
While the film is currently available on VOD, it hits limited theaters this Friday, July 6th if you want to see it on the big screen. I recently hopped on the phone with Van Dien to talk about his character, working with Nicholas McCarthy and utilizing the house in the film as if it were a character.
In the film, “Following her mother’s funeral, Annie reluctantly returns to her childhood home – a place that she’d rather forget. Now her sister Nicole and cousin have inexplicably disappeared, she is forced to unlock the doors to the past to discover the hidden secrets of the house and in doing so finds a room that she has no memory of. Things take a sinister turn and Annie soon realises that she isn’t alone in the house.”
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After their mother passes away, sisters Nicole and Annie reluctantly return to their childhood home to pay their last respects. While staying overnight in the house, the sisters sense a mysterious presence in their midst: noises startling them in the night, objects moving about, a fallen picture of an unknown woman posed next to their mother. Annie begins experiencing a series of intense and disturbing dreams – visions that lead her to uncover something terrible about her mother’s past that is finally revealing itself.
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’70s Throwback in ‘The Pact’ Concept Poster!
Nicolas McCarthy’s The Pact, which debuted at Sundance as a short, has just wrapped as a full-length feature produced by Preferred Content’s Ross M. Dinerstein.
And with the announcement, Bloody Disgusting was provided with an exclusive first look at a concept poster for the film that gives homage to classic horror from the 1970′s. Dig on it inside!
Caity Lotz (“Death Valley,” “Mad Men”), Agnes Bruckner (Venom, Vacancy 2, The Woods, Kill Theory), Sam Ball (“The Event”), Haley Hudson (“Ghost Whisperer”, Killer Pad) and Kathleen Rose Perkins (“Lie to Me,” “Trust Me”) and Casper Van Dien star.
In the ghost story hoping to return to Sundance, “as a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother’s death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.”
The film is said to be classic horror tradition of Alfred Hitchcock’s’ Psycho, Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Hideo Nakata’s Ringu.
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Ghost Story ‘The Pact’ Wraps Production
Nicolas McCarthy’s The Pact, which debuted at Sundance as a short, has just wrapped as a full-length feature produced by Preferred Content’s Ross M. Dinerstein, reports Variety.
As previously reported exclusively by Bloody Disgusting, Caity Lotz (“Death Valley,” “Mad Men”), Agnes Bruckner (Venom, Vacancy 2, The Woods, Kill Theory), Sam Ball (“The Event”), Haley Hudson (“Ghost Whisperer”, Killer Pad) and Kathleen Rose Perkins (“Lie to Me,” “Trust Me”) and Casper Van Dien star.
The ghost story — centered on two sisters’ return to their childhood home after their mother dies — could return to Sundance in January, according to Content Film topper Jamie Carmichael, who exec produced.
The film is said to be classic horror tradition of Alfred Hitchcock’s’ Psycho, Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Hideo Nakata’s Ringu.
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Cast Makes ‘Pact’ With Sundance Director
Bloody Disgusting exclusively learned that short film director Nicholas McCarthy will be making his feature film debut on The Pact, a full-length version of his short film that premiered at this past January’s Sundance Film Festival.
Caity Lotz (“Death Valley,” “Mad Men”), Agnes Bruckner (Venom, Vacancy 2, The Woods, Kill Theory), Sam Ball (“The Event”), Haley Hudson (“Ghost Whisperer”, Killer Pad) and Kathleen Rose Perkins (“Lie to Me,” “Trust Me”) all star in the horror drama to be produced by The Divide and Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens.
“As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother’s death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.” The film is said to be classic horror tradition of Alfred Hitchcock’s’ Psycho, Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Hideo Nakata’s Ringu.
Shooting is set to take place this week in Los Angeles.
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