Film Information

Jessica as: Kate Tunney
Production Status: Completed
Directed By: Renny Harlin
Fellow Cast: Toby Hemingway, Chace Crawford
Release Date: 8th September 2006
Screenwriter: J.S. Cardone
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13
Runtime: 97 min.

In 1692, in the Ipswich Colony of Massachusetts, five families of powerful witches commit to a covenant of silence to protect themselves against the witch hunters, but one of the families transgress their pact and is banished from their lands. Along the centuries, the power and the covenant are transmitted through their descendants and when the eldest son is eighteen years old, he ascends to a higher power. However, the use of magic addicts and if used in excess, ages the warlock. In the present days, four wizards teenage friends are in high school and their leader Caleb Danvers is close to his eighteenth birthday and consequently to ascend. He has just met Sarah Wenham and they are dating, when the appearance of darkling and supernatural dreams haunt the group. Sooner they find an evil warlock, descendant of the fifth ancient family that wants to strip Caleb’s power.

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Trivia

Filming Locations:
• Montréal, Québec, Canada
• Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

Budget:
• $20,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office:
• $23,380,495 (Domestic)
• $14,216,976 (Foreign)

Facts:
• The party in the beginning of the film is supposed to happen at the end of summer in New England. Filming, however, took place at the end of October in Montreal. The cast and crew had to endure the cold during the shoot.

• Despite the popular misconception, the film is not based on a novel, graphic novel or any comic-book title. The confusion comes from the fact that Sony had a comic-book of the same name created for the purposes of promoting the movie. Just prior to the release of this movie, Top Cow Comics printed a four part comic-book miniseries by Aron Coleite and Tone Rodriguez entitled The Covenant. Neither the authors of the comic-book miniseries nor Top Cow Comics is mentioned in the movies’ credit sequences, so the comic-book miniseries is not regarded as source material by the makers of this movie.

Jessica Quotes

“Renny being involved was big because he’s so experienced. So you feel like you’re in good hands coming into it. It’s not just like a typical horror film. It was cool that the guys had the power and were the witches, because in a lot of movies you see the girls as the witches. I thought that was different.”

“You have to wait and see because the evil one is the surprise in the end. You just have to see it. It’s about the guys and they’re witches and they’re they’ve got these powers from their families, and it’s hard for them to deal with.”

Critics Quotes

“This is cobbled-together teenybopper tripe about feuding male witches apparently they can’t even be granted the manlier dignity of being called ‘warlocks’ with nothing to offer but classic bad dialogue. The Bad Male Witch taunts the Good Male Witch by asking, ”How ’bout I make you my wee-yotch?” Seriously, Renny Harlin: What are you doing?”
- Entertainment Weekly

“Utterly stupid and full of lazy plotting and lazier dialogue, this is just idiotic enough to entertain on nights when you want to give your brain a rest.”
- Empire Magazine

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