What I’m watching: The Covenant
As you may have guessed, we don’t go out to the picture theatre much, and watch most of our films on DVD. Thanks to the New Year clearance sales, members of the family have aquired a range of films that we haven’t seen before and amongst them was “The Covenant”. I have to say that I really enjoyed this movie but felt it really had the potential to go a bit deeper and even be a bit more scary. That said, the male eye candy was exceptionally fine in it’s various stages of dress or undress ;-).
Frivolity aside I did enjoy the concept of the film, especially that these powers were conferred on the male side of the family, and only one son in the family, when so often in books and films it is the women who hold it. It changed the dynamic considerably, from my point of view, and the thought that young men were coming into power at the age of 13 and ascending to full power at 18 is quite terrifying, especially when you learn how seductive the casual use of that power is and what the long term ramifictions of it are. I can’t say I know of many 13-18 year old males that I’d feel comfortable around with powers such as were exhibited in the movie :-).
The special effects were also excellent, in my opinion. The Darklings, though, I felt could have been explained in more depth and their fright factor used even more. Eeeuw, and don’t get me started on the spiders <shudder>! Guaranteed creep out material for me using something we all come across just about every day. And really, when you think about it, that really is scary. Something that’s as normal about your house and home or workplace as a spider… just think of the potential (sorry, I’m shuddering here again.)
Have you seen any good scary movies lately?
