This movie is worth seeing for the opening title sequence alone, which matches images and music together in a rhythmic montage, while previewing motifs of the film with stunning transitions and sound effects. And, this high level of computerized special effects and photography and rocking music is generally sustained throughout the film. Autumn scenery and the picturesque buildings of the former realm of the witch hunters of the Massachusetts Bay Colony successfully invoke spookiness appropriate to the season and the themes of the movie. The young male actors are easy on the eyes, especially Steven Strait in the shower and swimming scenes. And, the plot is intriguing as it explores the consequences of a mysterious covenant among five families descending from the 1692 witches of Ipswich, Massachusetts. The line of male descendants on their eighteenth birthday ascend to supernatural powers common to witches. Of course, this necessarily involves teenage rivalries and rumbles that take on heightened dimensions, as the covenant members use supernatural powers to escape the normal consequences of youthful follies and to express overwhelming urges toward love and loyalty and pride.
Review of The Covenant
