The Covenant [Blu-ray]

Director: Renny Harlin, Roger Donaldson Renny Harlin

Overview

An ancient secret threatens to unleash the powers of darkness on a group of modern prep-school students when the sole survivor of a cursed bloodline returns to lay claim to the powers denied to him centuries ago in a supernatural teen thriller from director Renny Harlin and screenwriter J.S. Cardone. The story begins in 1692, when five families from the Ipswich Colony of Massachusetts formed a covenant of silence that would forever protect their remarkable powers. One family went too far, though, and as a result of their transgression they were forever banished from the land. Flash forward to the new millennium and the four Sons of Ipswich are now the student elite at the prestigious Spenser Academy. Bound by their sacred ancestry and sworn to silence, these four teens share a secret so remarkable that it has served to protect their families for hundreds of years. The past has a way of coming back when you least expect it though, and when the fifth Son of Ipswich returns seeking to harness the powers denied him in the past, the battle is on to ensure the safety of The Covenant and lay the one descendent who threatens to reveal their secret to rest once and for all.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/02/2007
UPC:	0043396170032
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMT
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:37:00
Sales rank:	24,571

Special Features

Audio commentary with director Renny Harlin; Breaking the Silence: Exposing The Convenant featurette

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Steven Strait	Caleb Danvers
Sebastian Stan	Chase Collins
Laura Ramsey	Sarah Wenham
Taylor Kitsch	Pogue Parry
Toby Hemingway	Reid Garwin
Jessica Lucas	Kate Tunney
Chace Crawford	Tyler Sims,Actor
Wendy Crewson	Evelyn Danvers
Kyle Schmid	Aaron Abbot
Stephen McHattie	James Danvers
Kenneth Welsh	Provost Higgins
Robert Crooks	Ryan Bael
Neil Napier	Coach Hamm
Larry Day	Off. Reeve
Vito DeFilippo	Mr. Hoffman
Frank Fontaine	Gorman Twoberry
Rob Burns	Mr. Pennyworth,Mr. Pennyworth
Pierre LeBlanc	Mr. Waugh
Barbara Basia Jasinski	Nicky's Bar Waitress,Actor
Steven Crowder	Party Kid
Jonathan Deveau	Semi-Driver
Dawn Ford	School Nurse
Paul Hopkins	Fireman
Travis Martin	Student
Basil McKenna	Patrolman Endore
Jon McLaren	Bordy Becklin
Charles Papasoff	Security Guard
John Robinson	Patrolman Byers
Sarah Smyth	Kira Snider
Paul Stewart	School Doctor
Jean-Loup Yale	Nicky the Bartender
Richard Zeman	Sergeant Sobel
Christian Baril	Dead Teenage Boy
Nicolas Cage	Actor
Harold Perrineau	Actor
Jennifer Carpenter	Actor
IronE Singleton	Actor
Wayne Pére	Actor
Xander Berkeley	Actor
Marcus Lyle Brown	Actor
Dikran Tulaine	Actor
Joe Chrest	Actor
Demetrius Bridges	Actor
Brett Gentile	Actor
Tomandandy	Composer

Technical Credits

J.S. Cardone

Renny Harlin	Director
J.S. Cardone	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Tom Rosenberg	Producer
Gary Lucchesi	Producer
Carol Kottenbrook	Executive Producer
Andre Lamal	Executive Producer,Producer
James McQuaide	Executive Producer
Andy Antoine	Special Effects
Luis Galdames	Sound Effects
Vincent Guisetti	Sound Effects
Eric Harwood	Sound Effects
Roger Donaldson	Director
Scott Einbinder	Executive Producer
Roger Mincheff	Executive Producer
Mindy Marin	Casting
Lucie Robitaille	Casting
Reg Ashby	Special Effects
Claude Letessier	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

More than 300 years after five families enter into a covenant of silence to escape witch hunts, thus preserving both the secret of their magic powers and their respective bloodlines, a quartet of their young male descendents have enrolled at the elite Spenser Academy. Laconic Caleb Danvers (Steven Strait) is the unofficial leader of this particular brat pack, which includes long-haired motorcyclist Pogue (Taylor Kitsch), laid-back Tyler (Chace Crawford), and constant troublemaker Reid (Toby Hemingway), who can't resist working his magic at inopportune moments. Things heat up when Caleb takes a fancy to transfer student Sarah (Laura Ramsey) and befriends a mysterious newcomer named Chase Collins (Sebastian Stan). From that point on The Covenant abounds in disturbing visions, suspicious accidents, and an alarming rise in the student population's death rate. The screenplay, while chock-full of clichéd and corny dialogue, nonetheless offers some surprisingly effective shock sequences and helps establish an oppressively malevolent mood that's sustained by conscientious trouping from key principals Strait and Stan. Director Renny Harlin, an old hand at this sort of material, deploys special effects parsimoniously until the climatic duel sequence, which echoes such films as The Matrix in its complexity and intensity. Pierre Gill's camerawork creates appropriately atmospheric images, and Tomandandy's pulse-pounding music accentuates the on-screen action perfectly.