Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Banshee!!! (2008)

A group of friends on spring break go camping, and end up in the woods where a Banshee is on the loose.  Soon after they make camp, the Banshee attacks, several are killed and the group flees to find help.

After managing to find a farm house, they hole up inside with the owner and his nephew, Rocker. The phones don't work, and the creature is able to make people hallucinate.  Rocker ends up having a showdown with the Banshee, using his guitar to fight it.  Yeah, you heard me - he fights the monster with killer licks from his guitar.

The biggest problem with the film is that it wasn't very interesting.  I found myself doing other things while it was on.  The kills start early in the movie which is preferable to one of those films where you wait fifty minutes before anyone dies. But the characters are supposed to be friends, and they don't seem all that concerned about the deaths.  At one point those who managed to successfully get away start joking around and seem to have forgotten that they just saw their friends die in horrible senseless ways.


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