The Covenant is an entertaining film that makes for hard viewing for an audience that lacks concentration. The title, sounds grimy, bitter, ghastly, gothic and gets you biting your nails. Therefore, this movie will give goose bums with a dark introductory of the sons of Ipswich - Listen to this, Ipswich and witch, does it get you thinking! Well, Ipswich is well-known for it’s odd and fuzzy but atrocious stories.
This tale is about five families that were around for generations, nonetheless, these tetra-families have supernatural powers. This movie is about the gothic tale of Ipswich about witches, this goes about the mediaeval era (1600’s) in Britain. The concept of ‘witches’ gets us, normal creatures, bombarded with evil thoughts of supernatural creatures flying around on brooms. The movie is based on five Ipswich families but the fifth son was announced dead after a witch hunt in the 1600’s – however that phrase is not true, the fifth will appear later in the movie.
This movie is about four friends, Caleb Danvers (Steven Strait), Tyler Simms (Chase Crawford), Pogue Parry (Taylor Kitsch) ,Reid Garwin (Toby Hemingway), these boys are from families that have pronominal behaviours - the males of the families are the ones who obtain these superpowers, thus the father and the first sons inherit these traits – the boys are close friends and they just can’t get over their fantastical powers – as normal teenagers would. The movie takes place in a wilderness party, during this event a horrible scene happens a boy is killed (Christian Brail). Bad enough, the boys of Ipswich knew the boy and Caleb thinks Reid has something to do with it, however, this false assumption continues and the boys get a rough vibe around the group. Caleb meets an blonde damsel named Sarah, however, Caleb is charmed by this gorgeous mistress. The gang come across an appealing guy named Chase Collins (Sebastian Stan), through careful and critical investigations the four boys discover that Chase is the fifth son to the Ipswich blood line. Furthermore, they also assume that Chase manipulated Reid’s power to kill the boy at the party, then the fun begins.
This movie is set in the Suburban side of North Carolina and it is during the dark days of winter, making it a wonderful touch to the concept ‘witches’ – because witches appear in dark, gothic and vivid sets plus they’re accompanied by a dreadful guile. However, I have to criticise the graphics of the movie and the effects of the supernatural battles, overall it is a good movie, the ending is probably a case of adding the typical gothic touch, and perhaps those less pessimistic than myself might think it is a perfect tragic ending. Hence, I rate it 7/10. This is a MUST watch film, go and rent this DVD.
Vuyani Ndzishe, signing out….
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