The Covenant (2006)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Sadly Over-hyped

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This movie is absolutely amazing! Not because it's good, because it's certainly not. Seeing a movie that is such a train wreck is highly entertaining, and I must say there is not not a thing about this movie that I did not find hilarious. I watched this with my friends, and it was tons of fun to criticize. I highly recommend everyone do this: just get a bunch of your'e friends over, make some snacks, and get ready to laughAs far as actual criticism goes, this movie fails at most aspects. The aesthetic of this movie is very dated: lots of crushed blacks and overall ugly yellow and blue saturation over most scenes, with terrible special effects. Dialogue is some of the most non intentional funny stuff. For example, I distinctly remember the lines "Harry Potter can kiss my ass" and "It's like a penis, but smaller", which were some of the most quotable among my friend group afterwards. The guys are supposed to be witches, I think, but their powers are never really explained, and every time the use their powers its just very cringe inducing and laughable. I don't think anyone in the production of this movie really knew what the plot is, so most of the time we had no idea what was going on and what characters motivations were. There is a twist I guess at the end, with one of the pretty boys turning out to be evil, and I guess it made sense,but it wasn't very good.It's very clear this movie was made for teenage girls or gay guys, because there are lots of scenes of just shirtless, sweaty guys in bed, or shirtless guys by the pool, etc. All of the main characters are very JCrew modelesc looking bad boys with very generic white boy names. There is also a romance in this, but both the leads have such one note terrible acting and bland chemistry, so it didn't really land.Overall though, this is such a quotable and stupid movie, so if your'e looking for that, you've found it. This is on Netflix, so it's easily streamable. If you love "so bad its good" movies, and want to have some fun, this is perfect. I could not recommend more how great this is to watch with friends and make fun of.

Plot; Four young men, the descendants of Colonial witch families, prepare for The Ascension; a time when they will come to posses great power, but at a terrible cost. Plays a lot like The Craft, but without, well, the craft. Looking like a mid-90s WB pilot, it has lots of pretty people, a poorly thought out mythology and not a whole lot else. Strictly for those wanting to see a pre-Winter Soldier Sebastian Stan chew scenery and spout lines like "I'm going to make you my Wee-yotch!".

After transferring into a new school, a woman learns that her group of friends belong to an old family of witches hoping to protect their family's long-held powers when a similar witch arrives looking to settle a long-held dispute.This turned out to be quite a fun if slightly flawed witchcraft effort. One of it's better qualities is the rather enjoyable time this spends setting up the group and their powers, as the beginning of this features their quest for avoidance and ignorance by their arrival at the party with it's supposed escape resulting from a fine CGI-enhanced car chase through the woods. These early scenes do well to set-up the second half which offers far more overt displays of power as they begin using their supernatural powers to great effect as the onset of the different curses, the magical fixing abilities and especially the brawling which is all sorts of fun. The scenes of them flying around into numerous obstacles around the room after being hit with supernatural powers makes scenes like the battle on the highway, the fight in the bar-alley and the beat-down in the dorm-room being quite fun while letting loose with the supernatural abilities in grand style. Most impressive with this style is the barn-finale, which showcases their dynamic powers into truly fantastic action-packed spectacle scenes of their powers flying around into the situation and being a really nice fight overall. Also impressive here is the attempts at suspense which comes off really well as the supposed encounter in the bathroom and the continuous visions of the dead student around their lives there's a really healthy mix of positive points to help this one overcome the few small problematic areas in here. The biggest issue in here is based off the films' positive as the over-the-top display of their supernatural powers looks quite lame and unrealistic. Basically this just devolves into someone standing around as a series of lame CGI shock-waves come out of his body while the other one goes flying around on wires which looks utterly unrealistic and even manages to take away the horror built up through the rest of the film. The other flaw here is the toned-down feeling here as the rating really ends up holding this one from letting loose with their powers or spells which are never as gruesome or intense as they could've been to staying in check with the rating. These here are what hold this one down.Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and Brief Nudity.

I personally love this movie but as anyone who has done research into the so-called witch hunt it didn't happen directly in Salem anyway. The idea that it is the males that are the witches wasn't believable to me. That was one of the problems. Witchcraft has always been a female oriented idea. Men have been within this circle but not primary. So therefore many get confused between sorcery and witchcraft but this is fiction so the premise is fine. I thought the dialog was typical for the age range of those within the story. There was nothing wrong with the acting at all and the overall premise of the story very unique and the special effects were awesome. It was an enjoyable movie not meant to be exactly scary but more of a psychological thriller with a paranormal twist. I think this movie is highly underrated and overly criticized compared to other movies that have come out of this type. I would have chosen something else to use instead of spiders in the magical end of things because the use of spiders is redundant in these types of movies but it did make its impact quite well even so. This story is about young people who are in their very late teens on the edge of adulthood so the interaction of all of the characters was portrayed quite well. Sebastian Stan was excellent as the antagonist in the film and should have gotten more credit for his part in the movie. This was a unique departure into the world of early colonists that were accused of witchcraft and what they had to do to remain alive and in the background. Also how the overuse of their gift had a very dark consequence and beguiling draw that had to be avoided at all cost. They likened it to an addiction that was very well portrayed in the movie.