(CelebNMusic247-News) The Banshee Chapter Available on DVD
A fast-paced thriller blending fact and fiction, Banshee Chapter is based on real documents, actual test subject testimony, and uncovered secrets.
The Banchee Chapter season 1 hits DVD just in time for Valentine’s Day on February 4, 2014
Synopsis:
On the trail of a missing friend (Michael McMillian) who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist (Katia Winter) – aided by a rogue counter-culture writer (Ted Levine) — finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin. A fast-paced thriller blending fact and fiction, Banshee Chapter is based on real documents, actual test subject testimony, and uncovered secrets about covert programs run by the CIA.
Here is what’s being said about The Banchee Chapter (review):
The Banshee Chapter works slowly, takes its time, behaving as a typical “whodunit” at first, with our fearless heroine squinting at computer screens and leafing through clues. Katia Winter, familiar to television audiences for her work in “Sleepy Hollow” and “Dexter”, is a wonderfully intelligent presence, thoughtful and worried, complex and cunning. Events start to spiral, and Thomas and Anna are deeper and deeper into the maze, with that terrifying “something”, the “something” that everyone who took that blue drug seemed to encounter, on their trail.
Structurally, the film is a bit of a mess. The cinematic point of view is unclear. It feels like a fake documentary at times, with a roaming floating camera going from face to face, but then there are also clear establishing shots that take a more omniscient point of view. There’s one scene where Anna goes out into the desert by herself to try to pick up one of those creepy “numbers stations” on the shortwave radio, and at times we see her speaking into her own video camera, but that format is abandoned to also give us medium shots of her at the wheel of the car. So it’s a bit confused, and Erickson can’t seem to decide which way he wants to go from scene to scene.
But that really becomes irrelevant because the film works its magic, its dark and awful magic, so that when we get to the final scene that takes place in the abandoned installation that was once the headquarters of Project MKUltra, we are wiped out, we are wrung dry from the high-pitched terror keening through the entire picture. The shadows are so black, the flashlight beams so dim and fragile, and nobody, nobody can see for sure what is really out there. – RogerEbert.com
Director: Blair Erickson
Writer: Blair Erickson
Cast: Katia Winter, Ted Levine, Michael McMillian
Distributor: XLrator Media
