Sci-FiHorrorFan I really enjoyed this movie.I thought Banshee Chapter was a very original movie and it was Very creepy and strange. This is a Horror movie done the right way.what makes this film work is its mystery.it has a very fascinating mystery that makes you want to keep watching so you can find out whats going on. I personally love movies like this, ones where the viewer has to figure things out. I Thought it was a very suspenseful movie and there were also some bizarre images in the movie. I'm sure if little kids saw this movie it would Freak them out.I mean some scenes freaked me out and I'm an adult.The Movie is about a Journalist Girl Called Ann played by (Katia Winter) that goes looking for a friend of hers who went missing after hearing weird radio like sounds And Music in his house. The boy and his friend went missing one after the other.The police suspected the boys friend for the disappearance but then he goes missing too so he stops being a suspect. The lead girl Ann thinks something else is going on and she doesn't think that the boys disappearing is any normal incident she thinks it has something to do with the weird radio noises they listened to before they disappeared.she also finds out about the government doing secret research experiments and she thinks the chemical the boys ingested may have something to do with the strange radio Broadcast. The girl finds audio footage of the two boys last moments together and she listens to it and tries to figure out whats going on.footage is also shown throughout the movie of people being experimented on in a laboratory by scientists.The girl meets up with a retired writer and he helps her to figure out what's going on and its not long before the two of them start hearing the creepy radio broadcast too and the girl thinks the experiments have something to do with it.Overall This is a good Movie and I liked it but there were some things that I found odd in the movie.I thought it was Odd that The lead girl seemed very comfortable walking around at night by herself most of the movie, its only until about half way through that she meets with the writer and he helps her and they walk around together looking for evidence, which I must also add is a bit odd because the girl Doesn't even know this man and yet she is still comfortable enough to walk around with him in the middle of the night?.she even goes to his house at one point and the guy starts giving her drinks and they drink together.I personally would not go to a mans house if I barely knew him and then start having drinks with him, he could put anything in your drink. As it Turned out Nothing happened but my point is something could have happened, you can never be too careful now a days.To end the review I will say this.This is not a Great film But it is a very interesting film mainly because of its mystery.The movie is also genuinely creepy and has that fear of the unknown feel about it which just goes to show you sometimes something you cant see is scarier than what you can see.This film was chilling and Creepy because the viewer never fully understands why the strange things are happening which is what makes this film work. overall I recommend it if you want to watch a movie that makes you think.I Thought it was an entertaining film.

Ringworm7 The title "Banshee Chapter" intrigued me, though the poster gave away the jump scares. (I saw this on Amazon, I can imagine it was better in the theatre and in 3D.) The MK-Ultra hook grabbed me, because I remember when the CIA documents were released via the Freedom of Information Act and President Clinton actually apologized to the country. However, it was when I saw the term "numbers stations" I knew I had to see this movie.Shortwave radio has been a fascination of mine since childhood. Having ham radio enthusiasts for parents means you get a few old radios to "play" with. The shortwave frequencies fascinated me endlessly because you could hear the cosmos, using radio astronomy you could hear pulsars, quasars, supernovas ... pretty cool, right? I'd listen for rhythms in the chaos, moving the dial the slightest of notches.Then I found the "numbers stations." And this is why I give this movie 9/10. That's only -1 for everything other reviewers complain about. Numbers stations are real, and they are quite spooky when you find them. The station used prominently in this movie is REAL, you can find it for yourself. I had listened to that station so often, for so many years, I'd had so many dreams and nightmares about it, that it made the movie feel very, very real to me. I'm pretty sure the film makers were counting on some audience members' familiarity with shortwave numbers stations, or with mind-altering drugs, to give it a boost.I recommend this movie to all my friends, *after* I play them a few numbers stations ... they say the movie is horrifying, truly scary. Great use of real facts, events and real news clips in an otherwise standard horror flick. Google "CONET Swedish Rhapsody" before watching and listen for a real scary treat at 2:48 in the recording, then watch Banshee Chapter.

begob Basically a missing person mystery with heavy reliance on sound/shadow jump-scares.Intriguing opening sequence, followed by a dull start to the investigation, where the pace flags. This is recurrent, and the story has to jump start with ... you know. Too many moving parts, I reckon, and it feels a bit contrived, always having to explain itself.Jump scares? At least ten. The first few are very effective, making me blush in my girly reaction. But near the climax you can tell the actress has been directed to angle the torchlight away from a dark space because there's going to be a ... Jump!Scare! Is it down to the scene itself, or audience fatigue? Hmmm.The actor playing the Hunter Thompson type stoner novelist is very good. Not impressed with the lead - standard strong woman issue, but she left me cold anyway.A lot of reviewers have praised the sound structure - thought it was good, nothing special.A Venn diagram of the story would overlap Cthulhu/alien/libertarian paranoia. Strangely it delivers a clunky anti-drugs message in the penultimate location - should have applied that to ... you know.ps. the novelist's voice is unmistakable - but I had to confirm on the Silence of the Lambs page.

Leon Smoothy Well, after having read facts about so called "number stations" before watching this movie, I was really interested in the subject. This one had passed under my radar for a while, so I didn't have very high expectations. But, I was wrong.There is a plethora of documentary-style, found footage-movies out there as you all know, so one automatically becomes a bit wary when a movie has that kind of feel to it, and therefore it's easy for serious film-buffs with at least some demands on reality-based content to pass on one flick that is really well put together and scary indeed too.This film is quite unique in it's storyline, dealing with intelligence-agencies's shady dealings, taking the story further and incorporating sheer horror. It somehow becomes more credible when the outset is/could be very real indeed.The actors do their parts very well here, keeping a low key, reality-style performance, and not really overplaying anywhere, giving it a far more involving, real feel than most other horror movies. If one wants to dig deeper in the subjects told here there is a lot of both chillingly real events that have actually taken place to read about, as well as theories of more fictional character.There is plenty of "shock-moments", but also a constant creepy, unnerving atmosphere that is rarely found in other movies anywhere, and you can't really see where things are going until they unfold. It tends to stick with you after you've seen it and set your own imagination going.So, if you like horror movies, thrillers and a story which has plenty of non-fiction parts in it, see this one and be prepared for paranoid nightmares afterwords!