Horrible Film


Going into this movie understanding it is low budget, I expected some tongue in cheek moments and not the best acting. The film itself has good editing and direction, and i can look past some of the special effects and for the most part they werent bad. obviously corny sci-fi original style CGI.

But the logic of the plot, and the actions the characters take, literally make no sense, and i had to watch the film in incriments because it was that bad to stomach.

The characters watch their friends get a stick rammed thru ones head and another get bludgeoned to death by the monster by having her head repeatedly smashed into a train rail by a flying gargoyle like creature, and 5 minutes later they are suddenly skipping thru the forest making jokes and bitching at each other like they are having a cranky day.

Then an old ugly irish idiot is hanging out in a bar saying he knows there is a banshee cuz he heard the screams, with cops who are in uniform, on duty, carrying guns, drinking away and downing shots of wiskey....ummm...what? There is pointless, incoherent dialogue thru out the movie, including irrelevant flashbacks and lame attempts at comedy.


The group of college kids stumble onto this house and are invited inside, and just then one more of their friends is attacked and ripped apart by this monster, and 5 minutes later they are back to joking and bitching and moaning like children as if they didnt just watch 4 of their friends get brutally slain by a monster that same day.

The female cop kills a giant centipede in a barn, and i guess that is the banshees child...how a centipede turns into a gargoyle creature is beyond me. The banshee also gets shot numerous times, and cgi slime sprays out, but it never slows down or gets wounded in anyway.

The group of kids are hellbent thruout the movie to turn on each other and start fights for no reason. it was like they had the memories of goldfish and kept forgetting about the murder and death and mayham they witnessed just 3 hours before.

Shawn and MJ make an appearance in the last scene in a rip off of the viral ghost video of the woman getting into a car and causing an accident. Also, there is no real clear explanation for what happened to the remaining characters. and there is a scene that is so far beyond stupid, you'll want to punch a baby.

The nephew, nicknamed rocker...yea...plugs in his electric guitar and rocks out a really bad 1980's hair band solo, complete with kicks, and knee slides, with his uncle and the main female character standing behind him like lost children and looking off into space, randomly throwing molotov cocktails at absolutely nothing.

This kind of idiocy, stupidity and illogical behavior ruins the entire movie. If you can sit thru this without getting pissed that this is how the makers of the film portray the human race, you are a retard.

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I must be a retard because I laughed myself silly! The guitar scene was hilarious!!

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I have to say while I agree with you wholeheartedly in the totality of horrible filmmaking, I have to disagree about a couple of things.

First, I saw this on Chiller channel and it is one of the few non-HD channels, so maybe this has to do with it, but I a hard time following the visual in this film. What I mean is, it is SO poorly filmed and dark that some scenes are really hard to make out at times. I mean it is hard to see what happened to the doggy (though I really didn't WANT to see what happened to Max to be honest and it bothered me that he is still alive and the man wants to help him but the Banshee starts in so he has to leave the dog in suffering); however, I had no problem seeing what was going on in other scenes (stake through the mouth was HILARIOUS!!!!!). You can't even really tell what is going on with the Banshee when she is killing the kid who needs to pee or the driver in the beginning. Plus the whole scene in the car and some of the other scenes are so incoherent that I have to wonder what the filmmaker was drinking when shooting the scenes.

To say the editing and directing was good is not how I would describe it at all. I have no problem with no=budget films. Sometimes they are awful but they have something unique or interesting about them that is done well (ie musical score, visuals, occasional effects, etc). This one had only some laughs going for it. I expect really bad acting (and boy was I rewarded with that), though the Banshee's acting wasn't too bad. heheh Only Max the dog was any good at emoting and following the script and cues. He was fantastic, actually. Everyone else? Not so much.

I will say some of the scenes did make me giggle. At least it had that (as opposed to Room 33). I am still trying to figure out how Lake is holding his beer can the entire time while they are running away from the Banshee after she kills the friend with the spear through the mouth. He never lets the beer can fall. I love how the kid falls down on the spear and plants himself basically. LOL I HATE that they gave putrid dialogue for Lake (though his joke about his granddad was funny) and that he's the token black kid and played as a fool, and even worse than the poor token black kid in Room 33. I have to say the actor that played Lake was actually not as bad an actor as the rest now that I think about it.

Then there's that whole illogical scene where the kid has to pee. I mean, what the heck is going on here? All the time they are arguing with the kid, he could have peed three times and danced. Not only that, but why not just pee behind a tree or right there; I don't see why he had a fit of shyness and decided he had to go into the trailer to pee. That scene was too much hilarity. I was yelling at the screen. Then I could NOT understand what the heck was happening inside the trailer. And when he peeks out of the door, why not run away back to his friends? The whole thing was ludicrous.

Oh and I disagree on the whole rocking guitar sequence. While totally ridiculous, I thought this was the one scene in the movie that was actually fairly well edited and shot and I liked his guitar riffs (I cracked up at the closed captions - "massive guitar riffs"). Plus it played well with the dingbat turned ninja assassin blonde bimbo throwing fire bombs and the other ditz trying to start the truck. I do love how when she finally gets the truck to start, she gives a very demure and ladylike "oh" and giggles and then is ejected by the Banshee through the roof and onto the ground in front of her friends. HILARIOUS! Plus I love how the amplifier blows out and the guitar ends. It wouldn't actually end if that really happened. Just the amplified guitar would. The guy would have started playing non-amp guitar and realized and stopped. Not stopped BEFORE. It was so stupid and funny at the same time.

I still am trying to figure out the ending. I get that bimbo girl turns into the Banshee (why?) and kills the people who pick her up, but what about before that?
Jennifer B Jacobs
Sports/Video Traders' Network
Greenville, NC

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