Though most of the short films at Sundance are presented in programs with other shorts a select few are paired with feature presentations where the content seems to be fitting. Such is the case with The Pact, a short ghost story by Nicholas McCarthy which will screen in advance of Calvin Lee Reeder's The Oregonian.
Firefly's Jewel Staite stars in this one - and, seriously, why have we not seen more of this woman? - which the director says is intended as an homage to his two favorite directors: Val Lewton and Dario Argento. You can get a brief taste with the trailer below.As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother's death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.