A 2011 Syfy Monster movie directed by Steven C Miller that has a professor (Lauren Holly) finding an Ancient Artifact that her daughter (Marcelle Baer) opens and accidentally unleashes a creature with a power scream that can kill.
It also stars Lance Henriksen, Eric F Adams, Edrick Browne, Todd Haberkorn, Garrett Kurtis, and Leanne Cochran.
It aired on March 26, 2011.
Tropes for the film:
- Distant Prologue: The movie stars at 1188AD when a surviving knight traps the titular banshee and then the films jumps to present day (2011).
- Fright Deathtrap: The Banshee kills her first victim after being released by scaring him until he had a heart attack.
- Hollywood Spelling: Two characters watch a video clip of a man who mutters something that sounds like "bean see". One of them jokes that it might be Spanish for "beans, yes" but the other promptly types it into a search engine and - in about two seconds - informs him that it's Gaelic for "banshee". The problem with this is that the "see" part of that Gaelic term is spelled "sidhe", and "bean sidhe" is in any case pronounced "banshee". There's no way she could have Googled it that quickly (if at all) if she didn't already know that.
- Our Banshees Are Louder: The Big Bad is an evil Banshee released by a group of archeologists. Her scream itself doesn't kill (though she can make it do so if she wants), but hurts at higher volume and marks those who hear it as her victims. She then proceeds to torment and haunt them until they want to die, at which point she brutally kills them. She's also a shapeshifter with powerful Your Mind Makes It Real illusion powers.
