This TVfilm was a real turkey sorry Steven Miller. It begins with an horse chase a couple of Irish temple knights is chasing a woman on horse. Suddenly one of the knights throws away hes cross like shield and it turns into a box cutting the head of the woman. And now Presentday Somehow this Irish box gets into an American school behind a fake wall. And the students and Prof Ira (Lauren Holly) opens the box and hell breaks loose. The thing thats make this TVfilm so bad is the effects the banshee head is so fake. All the heavy noise that just makes the ears wanna take out divorce. No no no. As I say in the Summary this is "the scream of the viewer" for someone to turn off the TV.
Plot summary
In 1188 A.D., in Limerick, Ireland, Templar Knights chase a creature through the woods and trap her head in a box. In the present day Professor Isla Whelan and her two assistants are researching and labeling historical artifacts in the basement of the university where she works and they find an Irish glove and map with the name Duncan. Isla's estranged daughter Shayla Whelan finds a hidden space behind a wall with a box with the severed head, but they believe that it belongs to deformed person or an animal. Out of the blue, the head screams and they all bleed through the ears. They learn soon that the head is from a Banshee and in accordance with the mythology they are doomed to die. Their only hope is to find the lunatic and discredited Professor Broderick Duncan, whose expertise is in the feminine spirit in Irish mythology.
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Top cast
Lauren Holly as Professor Isla Whelan
Lance Henriksen as Broderick Duncan
Todd Haberkorn as Otto
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English 2.0
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Scream of the viewer
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Cheap and shabby
A cheap supernatural flick made on the budget of a TV film and with a one time Hollywood actress (Lauren Holly, of DUMB AND DUMBER "fame") as the lead. SCREAM OF THE BANSHEE fails from the outset, with a ridiculously cheesy medieval flashback and a really poor supernatural creature, which looks like it was knocked up in somebody's garage. Lance Henriksen is prominently billed but only appears for five minutes at the climax, so don't get excited. The film tries hard to make sense and in terms of plot and structure it's a bit like a '90s B-flick, but the execution is so cheap and shabby that it simply doesn't work.
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Lame, but I can think of worse ways to waste my time
The cast and concept seemed interesting, but I was dubious seeing that it was low budget and that it was SyFy. As far as SyFy movies go, it is far from their worst, but it is not one of their better ones either. The cast aren't terrible, but the only ones really to come above their material are Lucy Hale and Todd Haberkorn. Marcelle Baer is not bad either, but her character is written poorly, while the casting of Lance Henriksson promised much but mainly because he is only on screen for ten or so minutes his efforts seemed wasted. The banshee was rather fake sadly, though the scream was terrifying, and the choppy editing and artificial-looking effects don't help. Neither do the hackneyed scripting, the dull, predictable and ridiculous story, the lack of any real terror or suspense or the annoying stereotypes for characters. Overall, not a complete waste of time but still pretty lame. 3/10 Bethany Cox