The Murder Pact

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The preppies are at it again. In reality, the death of the fellow student was accidental, pictures taken or not. The film definitely had promise with the 4 remaining students becoming a pact in that they would not expose anything. The film went awry at the end. Our picture taker was certainly not everything that she pretended to be. It is also difficult to fathom the idea that the girl would take such revenge on her boyfriend for the Broadway interview that she had. The boyfriend, with his contacts, appears to look like some monster. The film had promise as it depicted the mistrust the friends begin to have with each other. If only it had ended better.

Supposed to be based on an Edgar Allan Poe's short story. I couldn't find the connection. It seems to be the young brats throwing tantrums and histrionics. A perfect score? It is enough to make me laugh.

Great movie, great cast. Nice to see movies made here in New England. I have never been a fan of movies with murder but, this was a real mind opener with a mystery to solve. I still cant tell if it was scary or a thriller that had me intrigued to learn what had happened.

This Lifetime thriller seems a bit deja vu at first - a bit 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' thing. But there is a clever conclusion twist that makes sense and saves the story. Some college kids get blackmailed after one of their friends falls off a balcony so they decide to get rid of the blackmailer. But then you can guess - things aren't over for them yet. The production is a bit more glossy than typical Lifetime. The cast is quite good too. Beau Mirchoff is suited to the rich player. Alexa Vega looks prettier here than in the 'Tomorrow People'. Renee Olstead of 'Secret Life' isn't quite slim enough to play a ballerina. Since the ending is clever, it's worth watching.

Even though the plot line has quite a few holes in it, they are easy to overlook. As this story progresses the four main characters get themselves into ever more deeper trouble by trying to disassociate themselves from an unfortunate incident. Rather than telling the truth about what they witnessed. The setting is a very snooty high end college that caters to the children of very snooty rich high end people. Very snooty high end Will LaSalle, his fiancé Camille and their friends Rick and Annabel torment insecure student Heidi and in a drunken state Heidi falls from the highest point on a building in which a party is being held. Lisa, also a student, who just happens to be there with her camera, photographs the four main characters looking over the edge of the building at the now dead Heidi on the pavement below. Lisa sees this as an excellent opportunity to get some much needed cash from the four very snooty rich high end students. But, the four very snooty rich high end Will, Camille, Rick, and Annabel will do anything to keep their very snooty rich high end names out of the scandal press. So they make a plan! I actually enjoyed this story because it's nicely written, acted, directed, and the production is on a scale that added a level of reality to the story. Unfortunately there are a few holes in the plot that are too obvious to miss but the plot has attention getting twists and turns as you watch these very snooty rich high end kids achieve exactly that which they wanted to avoid.

Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's famous short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Murder Pact" tells the story of four bratty college students who form a secret compact to withhold details from the police about the death of a fellow student named Heidi, who toppled over a terrace to her death. The ringleader of the brats is Will LaSalle, the son of a business tycoon, who hopes to head up the family corporation after the death of his father. Will wants to avoid revealing to the public that Heidi was pregnant with his child at the time he was standing next to her and possibly nudged her over the terrace railing. Will enlists his friends in the compact and masterminds the death of Lisa, a fellow student, who had photographed them at the scene of Heidi's death. Roderick is the rower on the crew team who is among the most spineless of the conspirators. He cracks under the pressure of keeping the secret. His girlfriend Annabel (Bels) also begins to cave in due to a case of the guilts. Bels is a dancer who lost 65 pounds and had a tummy tuck. But she lacks the fortitude to keep a secret, especially when a zealous police detective begins to ask questions. The conspirator closest in temperament to Will is her girlfriend Camille (Cam). An aspiring actress, Cam uses her influence from Will's family to get her an audition for a Broadway play. The film is cleverly framed by two auditions of Cam with the same New York producer. Things come to a head in a lavish masquerade ball thrown by Will. The film is worth watching for the final ten minutes, as the filmmakers pull out all the stops for a surprise ending. A personal physical trait of Will was his enormous, misshaped blue left eyeball. He is extremely sensitive about this condition and constantly inserts contacts to counteract being "a side show." But, by the end of the film, that big, blue eyeball is on full display as Will experiences a reversal of roles for the first time in his life in an ending worthy of Edgar Allen Poe.

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Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's famous short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Murder Pact" tells the story of four bratty college students who form a secret compact to withhold details from the police about the death of a fellow student named Heidi, who toppled over a terrace to her death. The ringleader of the brats is Will LaSalle, the son of a business tycoon, who hopes to head up the family corporation after the death of his father. Will wants to avoid revealing to the public that Heidi was pregnant with his child at the time he was standing next to her and possibly nudged her over the terrace railing. Will enlists his friends in the compact and masterminds the death of Lisa, a fellow student, who had photographed them at the scene of Heidi's death. Roderick is the rower on the crew team who is among the most spineless of the conspirators. He cracks under the pressure of keeping the secret. His girlfriend Annabel (Bels) also begins to cave in due to a case of the guilts. Bels is a dancer who lost 65 pounds and had a tummy tuck. But she lacks the fortitude to keep a secret, especially when a zealous police detective begins to ask questions. The conspirator closest in temperament to Will is her girlfriend Camille (Cam). An aspiring actress, Cam uses her influence from Will's family to get her an audition for a Broadway play. The film is cleverly framed by two auditions of Cam with the same New York producer. Things come to a head in a lavish masquerade ball thrown by Will. The film is worth watching for the final ten minutes, as the filmmakers pull out all the stops for a surprise ending. A personal physical trait of Will was his enormous, misshaped blue left eyeball. He is extremely sensitive about this condition and constantly inserts contacts to counteract being "a side show." But, by the end of the film, that big, blue eyeball is on full display as Will experiences a reversal of roles for the first time in his life in an ending worthy of Edgar Allen Poe.