The Pact 2

June Abbott (Camilla Luddington) is a young woman that lives with her boyfriend, the police officer Meyer (Scott Michael Foster) and works cleaning up crime scenes. June has dreadful visions at home of the deceased killer Judas and his victims and she draws her visions in her leisure time expecting to make a book. When her stepmother is cruelly murdered in a copycat crime, June believes that Judas must have returned from the afterlife. But she becomes the prime suspect of the FBI Agent Ballard (Patrick Fischler) that is investigating the cases. June contacts the former victim of Judas, Annie Barlow (Caity Lotz), expecting that she might help her. But when Annie is murdered, Meyer warns June that Agent Ballard is the copycat killer; but June is alone at home with Ballard. Will she survive? "The Pact II" is a movie with a reasonable story but a messy screenplay and bad acting of Patrick Fischler and Scott Michael Foster in the roles of two important characters. The plot is hard to be followed and I slept two consecutive nights trying to watch "The Pact II". Only yesterday night I succeeded in watching this movie, but I do not recommend it. My vote is three. Title (Brazil): "Pesadelos do Passado 2" ("Nightmares from the Past 2")

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This movie is like a long journey by an old train - boring, a bit senseless and a bit of joy at the end that it has finally come to an end. Fans of the genre can easily skip it, but if someone is bored, it can be seen.

Two years after the first part the sequel came out and usually you expect not much of them. Most of them are cash grabs and mostly they add nothing special to even justify their sheer existence. Not so with The Pact II! Instead of director Nicholas McCarthy we get two directors with Dallas Richard Hallam and Patrick Horvath, the budget must have been much higher (already assumed because of the way better camera work) and with Camilla Luddington not only a very beautiful actress, but also someone who immediately transports the film out of the amateur-like appearance of the first part. Even FBI agent Ballard, played by Patrick Fischler, did a great job by playing this type of personality that you immediately want to hate. Scott Michael Foster didn't convince me in this movie at all though. Maybe that was a lack of chemistry thing between him and Camilla. Part two may not have that many scary moments as the first one, but therefore it adds way more tension via the writing. And it does show another thing very clearly. By letting the main actresses of both movies act together in some scenes, you can compare the screen presence perfectly. But don't get me wrong, the first part is essential for the story and you should see it before watching The Pact II. I still like the first one, just found myself enjoying this part here way more. A sequel that is better than the first one. Who would have thought?

Horrible , horrible boring picture .I feel like they felt obligated to make a part 2 for The pact , but why . Why to cripple such a well made horror movie , ill tell you why : to milk the dead cow of money. Sure they could have made a better film i believe but they failed miserably .This movie is not horror , it is plain boring from A to Z. Have you ever wondered how the first one would look like if they took all of the scary and interesting parts out , well here you go .This time i agree with the score it got on site ,you know what ? it should get an even worse one. One good thing are the actors, who are by the way are not so good but still if it wasn't for them , the movie would probably look like a trash can.

the pact II (2014) directed by the duo of Dallas Richard Hallam and Patrick Horvath is everything anyone would expect from a low budget sequel to a sleeper hit like the first pact movie. there are many issues with this movie but also a few positives. so let's get started. firstly the script is very messy in the way that it goes about telling its story. it attempts to tie a supernatural element to a real life serial killer plot line (much like the first pact movie) and fails in almost every way. the biggest issue here is that it tries extremely hard to mirror the script of the first movie but pales in comparison. the story they intended to tell here could have been pulled off but its execution was awful and messy mainly because of what type of movie it is trying to be. the pact II tries very hard to be more of a horror movie than a mystery where the first movie was a carefully crafted blend of the two genres. this means that the pact II tries to tell it's story through jump scares and ghostly visuals. this comes off as very cheap and annoying. in no way is the story itself bad, it's just the way it's executed and the over abundance of cheap scares rather than actual mystery. in technical terms the camera work, lighting, and score all pale in comparison to the original. they are not necessarily bad it's just that they aren't really given a chance to truly shine due to the over abundance of jump scares. the acting is also something that should be mentioned. the acting in this film is truly the most horrifying part. this probably wouldn't have been such a major issue if the acting in the first movie wasn't so great. the lead does an alright job but everybody else give awful performances in every regard. the only real positive thing I can say about this messy, messy film is that the first 20 minutes are a pretty darn good buildup and also had the only scene of any real tension in it. I wont spoil it, but this scene is actually very good. if the film had more scenes like this one it probably would have fared much better. overall The Pact II is a cheap imitation of its predecessor with none of the diligent story telling and excellently directed scare scenes of the original. a messy script, bad acting, mediocre direction, a less than memorable score as well as an over abundance of cheap jump scares this movie fails in almost every way. the verdict: 3.5/10

It's difficult for me to rate The Pact II. I don't think it does anything horribly and it maintains the low-key, left-from-center tilt of the first film, but it doesn't really add anything besides more back-story and a new central character. It isn't particularly frightening, with none of the stand-out scares or nightmare sequences of the original, but it isn't painful to watch and the acting is serviceable. The Pact II is a film where you can't really give much of a synopsis without ruining the plot. Who everyone is, where Annie (the lead from the original, played by Arrow's Caity Lotz) figures into the events, what the intention of the film is... It can be said that June Abbott (Camilla Luddington, the new Lara Croft, doing a pretty killer American accent), is a crime-scene cleaner who becomes involved in a series of murders linked to the original film when an FBI Agent, Ballard, begins to push in on her life, suggesting she has a connection with the investigation beyond scraping blood off the walls. Ballard, by the way, is portrayed by the always quirky Patrick Fischler, whom I most fondly remember from an enormously weird diner sequence in David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive'. He was intense and bizarre in that, and he's been intense and bizarre pretty much ever since. He is, for me, the shining point of The Pact II, as giving him a larger role than I normally see him get proves to be the best part of the film. June also has a mother (Amy Pietz) and a cop boyfriend (Scott Michael Foster) who think she works too much, and they both figure prominently in the story. As June becomes more involved with the investigation and the case becomes more personal, the film begins to lose touch with reality, much as the original did. Bad dreams, visions of the dead, phantoms yanking characters into and out of rooms and lost hours invade the story and are probably meant to scare, but for the most part we're just wondering when Annie's going to show up and where exactly the film is heading. When Annie does arrive, pulling bits of the first film with her, it is sadly not the breath of fresh air the movie needed to liven things up. It just keeps limping towards a conclusion, occasionally waving its hands and shouting 'boo', trying to ape the original's panache. The film does conclude, kind of. The climax eschews any sense of dread or otherworldly malice in favor of stabbings, beatings and revelations, à la Scream, only (thankfully) without the self-referential winks and the nods. Apparently, someone saw the first film and saw franchise potential, because the ending comes with a promise of more. "It's starting again," a character says. More what, though? And what's starting again, exactly? Murders? Floating bodies? Bad dreams? The questions that were answered in the film pretty much sealed the deal on the original's back-story, so we're left scratching our heads as to what the hell they're talking about. Patrick Fischler is awesome, and I'm more than happy to watch Caity Lotz and Camilla Luddington duke it out with the otherworldly, but The Pact II does little more than coast on the high praise of the original, and its suggestion that it's not quite done yet feels more like a threat to entertainment than to comely young twenty-somethings. 4/10 - It's below average, but it's not offensively bad

I've never written a review for a film but after seeing the amount of negative reviews, I felt it needed to be done. So bear with me! Like I said, after reading so many negative reviews I was hesitant to watch the Pact II. Being a big fan of the first film, I didn't want this one to ruin it. Typically, the sequel doesn't hold as much excitement as the first film. This movie was completely different. The story was a little cliché, as most horror films are; you see it over and over. But they make it work by putting in old characters and starting to add new ones. It wasn't nearly as slow as the first film but this one was a bit faster paced. I feel the character development wasn't all too extensive but you get to know and feel for them quickly. I enjoyed this one so much more than the last film and I am very eager to see a 3rd (hopefully). I hope you'll give this movie a chance!

The heroine of the 1996 film "Curdled" is a young woman who works for the post-murder cleaning service; The heroine, or rather the damsel, of "The Pact II" does the same job, but that is where the similarity ends. To begin with, this film is distinctly lacking in humour. June is closer to murder than her job; her mother was the victim of a serial killer known as Judas - as in the Biblical connection - and now after a 20 year hiatus, he's back. The only problem here is that Judas is dead, one of his intended victims got the better of him. So who is committing murders in her neck of the woods now, and is she being haunted by something not of this Earth, or is she simply going mad? Dream/nightmare sequences and the like often present problems for the director, not to mention the viewer, and they are not handled well here. Terrestrial murders and hauntings? Not a good combination, but if you like your damsels feisty and showing plenty of cleavage, you might find that some consolation for the dismal plot.