The Covenant (DVD)

Plot In 1692, in the Ipswich Colony of Massachusetts, five families of powerful witches commit to a covenant of silence to protect themselves against the witch hunters, but one of the families transgress their pact and is banished from their lands. Along the centuries, the power and the covenant are transmitted through their descendants and when the eldest son is eighteen years old, he ascends to a higher power. However, the use of magic addicts and if used in excess, ages the warlock. In the present days, four wizards teenage friends are in high school and their leader Caleb Danvers (Steven Strait) is close to his eighteenth birthday and consequently to ascend. He ...

The Covenant When I first saw the Covenant advertised on one of my other DVD’s I knew it would be a movie I would enjoy, even if it did look like your typical teenager suspense/horror movie with the plot being reinvented from other movie ideas that I would no doubt find familiar. Knowing that I enjoy such movies regardless of how familiar they are to others in their genre, it was an easy buy with the hope of the added bonus it would actually be completely different and blow me away. ---------------------------------- I give you the plot outline: ---------------------------------- Back in the 1600’s there were five ...

If a film is directed by Renny Harlin then you are getting a cast iron guarantee that the film will be dumber than the guy who thought up shipping football abroad for an extra game. Mr Harlin always sails close to the line and whilst his films can never be classed as high art, at least some of them are entertaining. I have to admit that I've enjoyed the likes of Deep Blue Sea, Long Kiss Goodnight and even Cutthroat Island wasn't as bad as it's box office suggests. In truth the man can blow sh*t up. However The Convenant doesn't have anything to blow up and thus it is a complete turd. The film starts with a hokey medieval introduction to the ideas of groups ...