2006 · fantasy · horror · adventure
The Covenant
Directed by Renny Harlin1h 37m2006
Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.
Our read: The Covenant (2006) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal fantasy · horror · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme fantasy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- epic-stakes
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