Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This movie came on TV one evening when there really wasn't anything else on, and being a horror fan, I thought I would give it a chance. It was astounding how terrible it was! I think I watched it through to the end in order to see if it would improve. It did not. SOME SPOILERS.. The basic premise is that there is a banshee, (a large, winged creature) killing and tearing local people apart and it does this by emitting high-pitched screaming and/or ripping people apart with its teeth and claws. Strangers get stuck together after some teenagers get attacked at their campsite and some of them get killed. The survivors run until they find some houses and are allowed in by two men. In addition to being huge, fast and winged, the banshee can cause hallucinations which it uses to clone people, which then allows it to get close to its victims. This hallucination ability is loosely explained suddenly by a zoology student who states that the low frequencies the banshee emits are too low for humans to hear and it becomes a hallucination if it gets too close to human eyes.I am not sure if the writers or the actors were bigger offenders here. Not only were the lines boring and not ever what they intended to be (cool, tough or funny), the actors were not able to convey much either. If you watch this movie, watch it with the intent to laugh AT it and you will derive much more entertainment from it. As a horror movie, which it is billed, it fails miserably.

While this film deserves to be panned for its overall failure, an outstanding and memorable performance by Kerry McGann redeems this lackluster effort from total oblivion. She is simply excellent as a local police officer who goes to battle with the dreaded titular banshee. Her portrayal of a strong and competent female character is refreshing in this sort of horror outing. Despite a weak script and poor dialog, she manages to make clear what a gifted actor can do in the worst of movies. It is only because of McGann that this is not a complete waste of time. The rest of the cast seems amateurish, as does the direction. The special effects are terrible and the cinematography is abysmal. The film is only recommended as an introduction to the work of Kerry McGann and little else.

Actually Banshee!!! is not quite as bad as the review title suggests, but it is hardly a good movie either, at least to me. The only things that stop it from being any worse than it turned to be were some pretty good prosthetic gore effects and a couple of scenes where it is energetically paced. But these few good moments fall far and between because the rest of the movie is to sum it up in one word...lame. The creature of the title is cheaply made, inconsistent and apart from the fact it kills it is not menacing at all. The look of the film also is not much better, the sets are decent actually but the filming generally is static and unfinished, with the use of various styles at the end proving to be too much. The dialogue is choppy and does flow very well, the story is underdeveloped with a high predictability factor, and the character especially the lead are irritating. The acting is not terrible, but it is never above mediocre level. Overall, I've seen worse but Banshee!!! was still a mess. 3/10 Bethany Cox

I have to agree with the previous poster who quite rightly mentioned the unfinished and/or incomplete feel of this movie. It's quite evenly paced but there are a few superfluous scenes used as "filler" which beggar explanation. For example, after the group witness two of their number killed in the most gruesome manner they very quickly revert to cracking jokes and giving someone a hard time because he needs to pee!!? I mean.. what?? The creature itself is passable given the budget but the Banshee of legend has more in common with the fairy folklore than what they have here, which seems to be some kind of hybrid "shrieker" from the Tremors movies, I was also reminded of Rawhead Rex (1986). The acting was patchy at best but the most disappointing element of this film was the ending where it descends into some kind of lame pseudo pastiche of visual styles which ultimately fails to impress. That said, I've seen a lot worse.