The Covenant (2017)

The Covenant: Directed by Robert Conway. With Monica Engesser, Owen Conway, Clint James, Sanford Gibbons. After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It’s not long before Sarah begins to experience supernatural phenomena of a violent and hostile nature. Bewildered and desperate, Richard enlists the aid of a paranormal investigator who confirms that Sarah has become possessed by a powerful demon. Together, the three men will go to battle to save Sarah’s soul.

“After the death of her family, a woman attempting to move on by restarting her relationship with her estranged brother in their childhood home finds that a series of strange incidents is only the start of a supernatural force preying on them and must find a way to stop it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis one wasnu0026#39;t all that bad and did have some decent elements about it. One of the strongest elements at play here is the way it manages to really dwell in the idea that something supernatural is really happening as it builds up quite a solid mystery. The fact that it starts to occur right after her arrival with the strange visions and happenings from the crying in the distance to the voices whispering in the rooms that come out of nowhere all offer up some solid jump scares along the way. By tying that all into the running plot thread about her trying to cut herself and being so withdrawn over the incidents in her life, the first half gives this a rather intriguing premise to lay- out the series of revelations that emerge as this one moves along into the later realms unveiling the backstory about the actual causes of the incidents in her past. How easily it goes from the concept of the supernatural infesting the house to the idea of demonic possession and influence abound in their community with the mysterious strangers in their lives warning about their need to prevent interference in their plans and how it finally manifests in her full-blown possession that carries itself along for the final half of this one with all the traditional trappings of the style before which is still quite fun and cheesy with all the yelling, cursing and religious epithets offered that makes for a usual exorcism attempt. It does end this one quite nicely on that kind of high note which is quite fun as the altered bodily appearance and feats of supernatural strength that all great attempts utilize, and all make for quite a decent time here. Thereu0026#39;s still some flaws with this one, starting with the rather routine and clichéd storyline that never really offers up many original or unique surprises along the way. Itu0026#39;s all pretty much as expected how this one will play out and it follows through on that in here, making for quite a rather rudimentary feel at times with this one containing so many familiar plot-points that emerge from this one, which is what continually occurs through this one. The lonely recluse, the mysterious vague stranger, the troubled priest and the nosey religious neighbor interfering in everything are just some of the different elements brought up here, and in conjunction with the overly familiar plot line thereu0026#39;s just not a whole lot of interesting or original material found here that really just comes off as the vast majority of the filmu0026#39;s running time. Itu0026#39;s really hard to also find a large part of the film scary or thrilling as what comes off here is just plain bland or boring to sit through recapping her descent into madness from what happened to her in the past as that isnu0026#39;t all that interesting or enjoyable sitting through her moping around about the death of her family. It really makes the film somewhat tough to get into with these dull, lifeless scenes coming along at the very beginning that doesnu0026#39;t really show off any kind of interesting or chilling material to make for a chilling film at first. These here are the filmu0026#39;s problems.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRated R: Graphic Language, Violence, Brief Nudity and a mild sex scene.”