You could really do worse than including this in your St Patrick's Day horror lineup. The production value is relatively low, but you've got Lauren Holly and Lance Henriksen who clearly knew what the assignment was. The assignment was to give us a campy holiday themed movie, and at least those two delivered.
The movie starts with the death of the titular banshee, whose head is sealed in a magic puzzle box during the Middle Ages and then somehow eventually winds up in the basement of a liberal arts college that is being catalogued by Lauren Holly's professor character, Isla Whelan, and her two longsuffering TAs. The TA's, whose names I don't remember but the guy is kind of a horndog and the girl is kind of a sad sack, are actually quite convincing as two young people who just wanted to get this job out of the way so they can go on Spring Break without worrying about their grant money. Less convincing: Whelan's college student daughter who is obsessed with her boyfriend and resents her mom for always being at work. The movie was constantly demanding that I care what happens to these two doofuses and I just could not. Anyway, the group finds the box with the head and somebody bleeds and opens it by accident. The head screams and it's not long after that before everybody starts experiencing supernatural shenanigans. Some of them are spooky, like what happens with poor sad sack. Some are unintentionally hilarious, like what happens to horndog. Some of them are neither, but dang does Lauren Holly do her best to sell it anyway. Then there's daughter and boyfriend who I still did not care about until the scene where she started turning into a hag in the middle if a make out session and tried to eat his face in a more literal fashion. That part was funny. Then I stopped caring about her again until the end.
Eventually, but not nearly soon enough, they realize they need the help of an expert and that's when they decide to seek out Henriksen's character, who is the sort of expert who has lost his ever-loving mind and whom the characters already know better than to trust, but he's their last! Option! OMG!!! Henriksen hams it up accordingly.
If you're compiling a list of goofy movies for a themed drinking contest, this might be a good one to consider.
The movie starts with the death of the titular banshee, whose head is sealed in a magic puzzle box during the Middle Ages and then somehow eventually winds up in the basement of a liberal arts college that is being catalogued by Lauren Holly's professor character, Isla Whelan, and her two longsuffering TAs. The TA's, whose names I don't remember but the guy is kind of a horndog and the girl is kind of a sad sack, are actually quite convincing as two young people who just wanted to get this job out of the way so they can go on Spring Break without worrying about their grant money. Less convincing: Whelan's college student daughter who is obsessed with her boyfriend and resents her mom for always being at work. The movie was constantly demanding that I care what happens to these two doofuses and I just could not. Anyway, the group finds the box with the head and somebody bleeds and opens it by accident. The head screams and it's not long after that before everybody starts experiencing supernatural shenanigans. Some of them are spooky, like what happens with poor sad sack. Some are unintentionally hilarious, like what happens to horndog. Some of them are neither, but dang does Lauren Holly do her best to sell it anyway. Then there's daughter and boyfriend who I still did not care about until the scene where she started turning into a hag in the middle if a make out session and tried to eat his face in a more literal fashion. That part was funny. Then I stopped caring about her again until the end.
Eventually, but not nearly soon enough, they realize they need the help of an expert and that's when they decide to seek out Henriksen's character, who is the sort of expert who has lost his ever-loving mind and whom the characters already know better than to trust, but he's their last! Option! OMG!!! Henriksen hams it up accordingly.
If you're compiling a list of goofy movies for a themed drinking contest, this might be a good one to consider.
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