By Jon Donnis
Black Mandala has unveiled Blood Covenant, a demonic horror film shaped by a strikingly collaborative vision. Directed by Mariano Cattaneo, Spencer Keller, Kate Trefry, Bret Miller, Javier Yañez and Hasan Can Dağli, the film leans into obsession, ambition and the price of creation, all filtered through a dark supernatural lens.
At its centre is a horror writer who has fallen apart. Once full of promise, he now finds himself buried under debt, creatively empty and close to losing everything. With nowhere else to turn, he carries out an occult ritual that summons a demon offering what he wants most. His lost inspiration returns, and the stories begin to flow again, but the gift is poisoned from the start. Each new piece of work demands a sacrifice, measured in flesh, binding success directly to suffering.
As his reputation grows, so does the cost. Fame arrives alongside physical decay and moral collapse, until creativity and pain become impossible to separate. The film treats inspiration as something dangerous and consuming, asking how far someone might go to be heard again, and what remains when the price has been paid too many times.
Blood Covenant features an ensemble cast drawn from across international genre cinema. Joe Keery, Maika Monroe, Aria Bedmar, Agustín Olcese, María Eugenia Rigón and Bruno Giacobbe bring the story to life, grounding its supernatural horror in raw, human desperation.
