Review of The Covenant

Low budget possession film with an interesting twist. The SFX are mostly substandard which is a disappointment. I have seen some fan-based horror makeup videos on Youtube and Facebook made by teenagers that come very close to the makeup work done in major Hollywood films so I felt there isn't any excuse for the poor work made on this film today. The acting wasn't very good with the exception of Owen Conway who plays the husband. Conway did a pretty good job considering the script doesn't have rich dialog. The film is yet another possession film that gets the whole catholic rituals wrong. But the story does have an interesting twist on the possession genre that I'm surprised other filmmakers haven't explored. What might happen if the possessed happens to be pregnant? and what about the child born from that woman? But the film does drag on in the beginning so the pace doesn't pick up until halfway through the film.