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‘The Covenant’
In honor of Witch Week here at Decider, I’m going to let you in on my movie night secret weapon: The Covenant. The soapy, campy 2006 movie about boy witches is best described as “completely bonkers” and yes, while it does have a 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, I want you to ignore that (and focus on the 62% audience score instead!). The Covenant — “the perfect homoerotic movie for the CW generation“ — stars Steven Strait (The Expanse), a pre-Friday Night Lights Taylor Kitsch, and pre-Gossip Girl Chace Crawford and Sebastian Stan. It follows four high school boys who descend from four colonial witch families that swore a pact of silence to not disclose their powers. As the boys approach 18 years old, their powers — which are inextricably tied to their life force — grow stronger. Weird things start happening at their boarding school just as a new student arrives and a mysterious death occurs, and… if I told you any more, I’d be veering into spoiler territory. It’s a movie that gets really weird really fast and doesn’t ask much of its audience beyond trusting that it’ll all lead to a place that makes sense. But really, it’s just a 96 minute long thirst trap with multiple locker room and swimming pool-set scenes. That is the real selling point of The Covenant.
