THE COVENANT is an appalling teen horror film directed by Renny Harlin, the once-great purveyor of such delights as DIE HARD 2 and CLIFFHANGER. The mighty have fallen and there's no evidence of Harlin's skill in this boring and derivative little movie that plays as a gender-swap rerun of THE CRAFT. After a promising credits sequence bringing to life images of the witch burning in Salem in the 17th century, we're thrown into a usual high-school type movie except this time you get the impression they're trying to make a HARRY POTTER-type film for teenagers.Straight away we're in the middle of poor CGI special effects used for no reason other than to show special effects and a bunch of utterly uninteresting cast members who couldn't act their ways out of a paper bag. Particularly to blame is the awful Steven Strait, whose lead Caleb has to be one of the most routine leads I've ever watched in a film. This guy has no personality whatsoever, nothing that makes him stand out, and I was yawning every time he appeared on screen. Then again, his insipid love interest is no better, and it's little surprise that Harlin films her tattoos more often than her face.This almost plot less mess involves four young warlocks who use their powers in the local bars and nightclubs until another kid at the school is found dead. Then it turns out a fifth member of the group, supposedly dead, is more than alive and the film ends with a battle between he and Caleb. That's it. The other guys hardly get a look in and the Draco Malfoy lookalike barely registers despite figuring prominently during the first half. The ending has to be one of the worst I've seen, just a couple of guys hurling 'magic bolts' at each other until one dies. It lasts about twenty minutes and the FX are as crappy as ever. It reminded me a little of the ending of THE MEDALLION, but even Julian Sands and Lee Evans look like distinguished thespians in comparison to the guys on show here.One sub-plot involves a 'spider curse' that causes horrible bugs to crawl over the female victim, but even these critters are poor CGI animations that rob any of the gross-out factor that might otherwise have resulted. Harlin is clearly bored of his role, acknowledging that his material is tired and predictable and choosing to focus instead on young girls in their nightwear and young men nude in the changing rooms in a hope to keep his audience's attention. It doesn't work. There's nothing to recommend in this film whatsoever.

I don't really have much to say about this film.The Dialouge is bad, the Character development is REALLY bad, and the plot is... I don't even have a word.And another thing...It sucks at being a horror film. Seriously. After the film had finished, I thought the genres it would get on IMDb were: Action, Fantasy, Thriller. Then I saw that Horror was also there, and I thought to myself *WHY????* It made the film even worse for me (Horror is my second favourite genre, with Thriller being my favourite)I wouldn't bother with this film. If you see it in the shop, don't buy it.

A movie that does not match the hype of what its somewhat, over the top commercials made it out to be. We have our usual string of cliché story, boy meets girl, boy needs to save girl, and damsel in distress. You can find this variety of movie in many places, but it still grabs a unique version on takes of magic. Using power comes with a cost, such as draining life essence. I will give this movie props though, for giving away a creepy atmosphere, and sometimes watchful music uses. If you wanna just have a nice time, not so great, but not terrible flick. You could always witness this one, it can be found to be affordable as well.

The result is pretty annoying as someone got the idea to combine a teen movie and a vampire-type mystery. But the movie was made in 2006! Thus, it is strange that showing muscular male torsos, smooth female legs, kisses in the rain / during lightning, nervous relationships, college competition etc, on the one hand, and flying in the air, insects in bodies and in dreams, aged youth, flashing eyes etc, on the other hand, could create a good entertainment. The scenes are stupid at times and no actor is interesting to watch, it seems they were picked thanks to their model-like appearance.Renny Harlin has made stuff of different quality, but this could have been avoided. Additional points from me due to shortness - 1,5h was not too painful :)