Thursday, July 27, 2023

Banshee Chapter (2013)

James is researching MK Ultra, a program in the 1960s where the government experimented on people using the chemical DMT-19. Everyone who took the drug experienced the same phenomenon. 

When James discovers a contact who can provide him with the drug, he decides to take it while a friend films him.  He tells his friend if anything happens to him, to make sure his book gets finished.  At first everything is normal, but then James starts to hear noises.  The cameraman also hears the noises so seems it’s got nothing to do with the experiment.  But then James face gets distorted and he disappears. The cameraman is later by the police as he’s wandering around but he vanishes three days later.

Anne, who has been friends with James since college, wants to know what happened to him. She heads to his home and finds the police have not gathered evidence. His notebooks, his manuscript, and a tape on MK Ultra are all all within view.  She discovers the broadcast James heard can only be found in the desert on certain nights. So she heads out into the middle of nowhere to see if she can pick it up. When she does, she ends up scared of something in the dark.

When she finds Thomas Blackburns name, she calls about MK Ultra but he hangs up.  Anne goes to his house and gains entry with a ruse. But he’s not stupid and next thing you know she feels odd and he tells her he’s dosed her with DMT-19. Now Anne wants to solve the mystery before something happens to her, but odd things are starting to happen.

This movie starts slow, then I got really interested in it, but once Anne and Thomas started driving around, it slowed down again and I lost interest in how it ended. Blackburn is a Hunter S. Thompson figure, with some situations seemingly taken out of Thompson’s life.

 

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