SEBASTIAN STAN plays the new guy in school who turns out to be the long lost descendent of another original family from Ipswich who returns there, powers in full force, desirous of gaining even more.LAURA RAMSEY plays the new girl in school who experiences some creepy events in her dorm when not otherwise making out with Caleb.He fools around a bit with Sarah, uses some profanity, and must contend with Chase's nefarious plans. STEVEN STRAIT plays a teen who possess supernatural powers that are about to become stronger and more dangerously seductive on his 18th birthday.WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13 For intense sequences of violence and action, some disturbing images, sexual content, partial nudity and language. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Some teens might be drawn by the cast and/or supernatural plot. As strange things start occurring in their private school, Caleb, his friends, and Sarah try to figure out what's going on and stop any dangerous activity before it's too late. Instead, it's Chase Collins (SEBASTIAN STAN), another transfer student who also immediately hits it off with Caleb - platonically - but soon draws the suspicions of him and his friends.įor they sense that he might also possess "The Power" and that worries them since if he's already ascended, that would make him the most powerful and dangerous of the bunch.
And we're not talking about pretty Sarah Wenham (LAURA RAMSEY) who draws Caleb's attention when not getting the lowdown on him and everyone else from her roommate Kate Tunney (JESSICA LUCAS). While most of their kind - including a fifth family - were hunted down and killed in the Salem Witch Trials, a few of them bonded into a covenant that's kept them safe and secret for the past 300 years.īut that's all about to change with the arrival of a new student. That's not only because it means they'll be adults, but also because that's when they'll "ascend" into possessing supernatural powers far greater than the ones they inherited at the age of thirteen. PLOT: It's the beginning of school at Spenser Academy and friends Caleb Danvers (STEVEN STRAIT), Pogue Parry (TAYLOR KITSCH), Tyler Simms (CHACE CRAWFORD) and Reid Garwin (TOBY HEMINGWAY) - all descendents of the original families that founded the Ipswich Colony of Massachusetts in the 17th century - are looking forward to a near year as well as all of them turning eighteen. QUICK TAKE: Suspense/Horror: A group of young men must contend with a newcomer - who seems to possess similar supernatural powers to theirs - and his nefarious plans regarding them. (2006) (Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan) (PG-13)