About this episode

Roger and guest co-host Bret Laurie discuss the over-the-top 2006 film The Covenant, exploring its campy elements and early-2000s aesthetic.

This week on Dark Night of the Podcast , Roger is joined by guest co-host Bret Laurie to revisit the gloriously over-the-top 2006 witchy teen thriller The Covenant . Set in a world where shirtless prep school warlocks rule the halls, the film serves up a perfect storm of CGI chaos, brooding stares, and powers that seem to work whenever the plot needs them to. Roger and Bret lean all the way into the camp, breaking down the movie’s early-2000s aesthetic, its very obvious (and very entertaining) homoerotic energy, and a villain who clearly never met a mirror he didn’t love. They also talk magic rules that make absolutely no sense, fight scenes that look like supernatural Abercrombie ads, and why this movie somehow remains ridiculously watchable. It’s cheesy, it’s dramatic, and it might just be the ultimate time capsule of mid-2000s teen horror. Buckle up… the Sons of Ipswich have entered the chat.

People in this episode

Host: Roger Conners

Guest: Bret Laurie

Topics covered

• film review
• teen horror
• 2000s aesthetics
• homoerotic energy
• CGI chaos

Keywords

• The Covenant
• 2006 film
• witchy thriller
• teen horror
• CGI
• homoerotic
• camp

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Covenant

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