Too much suspension of disbelief required for ‘The Pact’

All families have their secrets. The dysfunctional clan at the centre of Nicholas McCarthy’s ghost story have an entire closet full of skeletons waiting to rattle their gnarled bones.

Unfortunately for us, ‘The Pact’ is expanded from the writer-director’s 11-minute short film of the same name and he runs out of ideas and dramatic momentum well before the bells have chimed on the first hour.