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Jan 10, 2014 · "The Banshee Chapter" starts out documentary-style, with words on the screen informing us of the secret CIA program from the 1950s and 1960s codenamed Project MKUltra, which involved chemists and doctors injecting hallucinogenic drugs into people in order to study the results.
- Lovecraft and found footage!
- Verdict
By Cliff Wheatley
Updated: Aug 16, 2021 11:58 pm
Posted: Feb 13, 2014 7:04 pm
A mixture of H.P. Lovecraft’s From Beyond, The Blair Witch Project, and the real-life Project MKUltra experiments conducted by the U.S. Government from the 1950s to early 1970s, Banshee Chapter is an impressively adept and character-focused horror movie. It’s not perfect by any means, and there are cheap thrills that detract from the true creativity of the movie, but overall Banshee Chapter should deliver the goods for most horror aficionados.
A young novelist named James (Michael McMillian) goes missing when he doses himself with an experimental drug that the government was testing decades before. His friend and journalist Anne (Katia Winter) undergoes a mission to find James and along the way stumbles onto a government conspiracy involving this mysterious drug and, apparently, creatures from another world. Helping Anne in her quest is the Hunter S. Thompson-esque Thomas Blackburn (Ted Levine), who had correspondence with James before his disappearance.
While the movie has its share of cheap jump-scares and some impressively disturbing monster make-up, the true success of Banshee Chapter comes in its character development and the tension that results from it. The relationship between Anne and James is explained by the former early on, but separately we get glimpses of a romance that never fully blossomed, adding layers to the dichotomy between the two. This desperate desire to connect but never doing so until it’s maybe too late.
Banshee Chapter is a fun ride that mostly sticks to its guns about the world it builds and the characters it develops, never foregoing logic for shock value – something all too rare in horror these days. While the narrative/found footage combo can get frustrating, horror fans looking for something new and under-the-radar to watch on a stormy night ...
- Cliff Wheatley
Jan 8, 2014 · “Banshee Chapter” is an effectively creepy horror-mystery whose journalist heroine tries to find out what happened to a friend — one last seen ingesting “an enhanced form of a rare contraband...
Banshee Chapter (sometimes referred to as The Banshee Chapter) is a 2013 American horror film and the directorial debut of Blair Erickson. The film had its first screening at the Fantasy Filmfest on August 22, 2013, and released on video on demand on December 12 of the same year.
Although it relies to a large extent on found footage, fear not the format -- The Banshee Chapter is actually a well-made, delightfully acted and best of all honestly scary brain twist of a...
Jul 27, 2013 · The Banshee Chapter is filled with cliched jump scares (way too many of them, seemingly coming every 10 minutes) – complete with ridiculous over the top soundtrack; some risible, completely inane dialogue; terrible stilted acting from Katia Winder and worst of all the awesome Ted Levine is totally wasted, in both senses of the word, in his ...
Jan 10, 2014 · The story in “The Banshee Chapter” creates an almost instantly captivating tale around urban legends that arose after it was made public of the black ops experiments the Government implemented on citizens during the 60’s and 70’s using LSD.
