This scene scared the holy bejeezus out of me as a kid … as an adult and parent myself now, I can’t help but feel the power of acts and consequences. Darby was retiring/being replaced by Michael and they kept it from Katie. When she found out, she went off the rails, packing up their home and animals for relocation. She went up on the mountain to get the horse, in a sad, frightened and angry state of mind and this ensued. 2:38 … here we see the awful realisation hit Darby of what his choice lead to. In these times, work and money were the line between life and death. He’s responsible for this and the outcome is unknown. Parents across the world often put themselves and their feelings first, above the human life they helped create and often heartbreaking outcomes are the result. Not on my watch, I went through it with my own parents, and I’ll never do it to my son. 👍🏼
I’m 37 now, I haven’t had any existential realizations in correlation with this scene other than it scared the fuckin begeezus outta me as a kid too hahaha
This gave me nightmares when I was about 6....I've never forgotten this scene even though its been 40 years. Amazing how fear stays with us from childhood
This terrified me as a kid too. Always stayed with me. I'm about to show my 5 kids ages 9 to 3 for a halloween movie, and I came to check if I'll need to send the younger ones out. Yep! Looks like only my 9 year old boy will be watching it with me. 😂
I see a lot of people give this movie flack for being stereotypical and like yes, that's a fair assessment, but Disney absolutely nailed the details on the banshee. She's cloaked, combs her hair while keening, and only starts keening before Katie vanishes on the hill. And even though she is a sinister presence, she's not evil and merely carrying out her duties.
I saw this classic when it came to the cinema, I would have been 6 years old & this frightened the heck out of me . Plus when the death coach come out of the sky . Woo , now at 71 years old and watch it on D.V.D. Still waiting for King Brian to grant me a wish for my youth back 😊 ❤
Now, this type of banshee is an evil fairy whose moaning cries bring nothing but bad luck. - Blarney Kilakilarney, The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold (1981)
Interesting thing is, in the original stories Darby's encounter with the banshee happened quite differently. She actually wasn't trying to be scary; someone (actually Darby's neighbour, although he didn't know that at the time) had stolen her Golden Comb & she wanted it back.
I've not seen this, since a lad of 6 or 7. But, my opinion of the SFX then, has not changed. As a kid, I knew Disney, capable of doing better. Heck, I've seen other studios, do better. I wasn't frightened then and how it looks, was as I remember...even some 50 plus years, on. BUT, it was nice to see a young Sean Connery.
She could have been? The same horse--which was previously revealed to have been a pooka--knocked Darby down a well earlier in the movie under orders of King Brian to bring Darby to his lair.
@@Jordan81577 Absolutely! Genuinely like, the only bad special effect I can think of in this whole movie is the one involving Darby falling down the well. Everything else is GREAT for something made in the late 50s
@@Jordan81577 Brilliant combination of optical effects. You have miniatures, rear projection, mirror/glass projection, and lots of forced perspective (especially the scenes with the leprechauns.) Most of it is all done at once, "composited" by using all the tricks above, and then filmed on set. So when you see them walking over the top of the mountain with the lightning behind them, they're probably relatively far away on a set made to look like a mountain path with a canvas backdrop behind the actors, then a "mountain" miniature or painting in the foreground that seamlessly blends with the mountain path in the background, and then some glass in front of the camera upon which they can project the lightning & clouds. You sandwich it all together to complete the illusion, then film it. Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula movie from 1992 also did this. Lots of brilliant optical effects. If you're into special effects, it's one of the best. It's also only _one_ of two movies I'm aware of that did "old guy makeup" perfectly; the other being The Exorcist. Max von Sydow was only 44 in The Exorcist. _Fantastic_ makeup.
It DOES look a lot like that! All the locations in this movie were fabricated and/or shot outside Ireland, but the Rock of Dunamase is downright uncannily similar to Knocknasheega now that you mention it.
I was 6 when this came on TV and I couldn’t watch the banshee parts, way too scary. It took several more years before I could watch the whole thing. Way too intense. Just think what Disney studios could do with Lord of the Rings.
I've always wondered how they did the effect of the banshee in this movie and who was the actress playing her? She still scares me to this day! 😱🙈🤣. I always thought that the actress playing Pony's mother was the actress who also played the banshee? Maybe? What do you guys think? 🤔🤔🤔
According to Internet Movie Database (IMDB) She was played by a Panamanian-born actress/dancer named Joanne Genthon. She also had parts in major films such as Oklahoma, Vertigo, Some Like It Hot, and A Star Is Born. Unfortunately, she was almost always uncredited, so she never got the recognition she deserved. It's too bad: She was a beautiful actress and could have had a great career in Hollywood.
I don't understand The Banshee is supposed to simply warn, not take. The Dullahan takes. More over Katie was just fine she just hit her head, sure it could've been severe she was just out cold not dead.
I think here she's not really "coming" for Katie, but is just showing herself before Darby as the O'Gill's banshee, since it's said usually only the family she keens for can hear (and in some cases see) their respective banshee.
Back when Disney live action movies weren't lazy redos of their animated classics.
There's a small handful of them that aren't too bad, but you make a fair point there.
This scene scared the holy bejeezus out of me as a kid … as an adult and parent myself now, I can’t help but feel the power of acts and consequences. Darby was retiring/being replaced by Michael and they kept it from Katie. When she found out, she went off the rails, packing up their home and animals for relocation. She went up on the mountain to get the horse, in a sad, frightened and angry state of mind and this ensued. 2:38 … here we see the awful realisation hit Darby of what his choice lead to. In these times, work and money were the line between life and death. He’s responsible for this and the outcome is unknown. Parents across the world often put themselves and their feelings first, above the human life they helped create and often heartbreaking outcomes are the result. Not on my watch, I went through it with my own parents, and I’ll never do it to my son. 👍🏼
I’m 37 now, I haven’t had any existential realizations in correlation with this scene other than it scared the fuckin begeezus outta me as a kid too hahaha
Absolutely, the scariest shit ever
You're absolutely right. I never never knew true joy or true terror...until I became the daddy of a baby girl...
Yeah saw it when I was ten years old and it got me👻☠️
That's not a Horse.
This gave me nightmares when I was about 6....I've never forgotten this scene even though its been 40 years. Amazing how fear stays with us from childhood
SAME! I literally came here to see if that fear was still there, and yep! There it is! lol. It is indeed amazing…
Same, this scene terrified me
Traumatic, nothing but traumatic as a young lad watching this
Yup. 😂 most would think it silly nowadays but when i was little, this was about the only thing I could remember from this movie
This terrified me as a kid too. Always stayed with me. I'm about to show my 5 kids ages 9 to 3 for a halloween movie, and I came to check if I'll need to send the younger ones out. Yep! Looks like only my 9 year old boy will be watching it with me. 😂
One of the best Irish film's ever made 💯💚🇮🇪☘️👍👻
In America.
The banshee is still the scariest shit I've ever seen since I was 4. I'm 40 now😂
Disney cared so much about details. They didn't have to show the banshee combing her hair, but by god they did.
I see a lot of people give this movie flack for being stereotypical and like yes, that's a fair assessment, but Disney absolutely nailed the details on the banshee. She's cloaked, combs her hair while keening, and only starts keening before Katie vanishes on the hill. And even though she is a sinister presence, she's not evil and merely carrying out her duties.
@@SankaJonesCreations
He pronounces the name correctly too, as two words
This scene, viewed when I was 4, began a near life long anxiety about death. Thanks Walt!
I saw this classic when it came to the cinema, I would have been 6 years old & this frightened the heck out of me . Plus when the death coach come out of the sky . Woo , now at 71 years old and watch it on D.V.D. Still waiting for King Brian to grant me a wish for my youth back 😊 ❤
I prefer this over most CGI. Never heard of this before until somebody mentioned it on Reddit's r/tipofmytongue.
Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House!
@@QuarrellaDeVil Correct! They did use a lot of the same sound effects from that album for the Banshee's keening.
Still raises the hair on my arms...and I am 50 years old now.
Sean Connery as a very young man.
Now, this type of banshee is an evil fairy whose moaning cries bring nothing but bad luck. - Blarney Kilakilarney, The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold (1981)
Still gives me goosebumps
Terrified me and my sisters as kids!! 😅
The banshEEEeee! 😂
That banshee is a steel/ghost type. It went away when he threw the lantern, but a bit later he attempts to hit it with a blunt object to no avail.
It should have though, the good folk don't like iron!
A very young Sean Connery, shaken but not stirred
If you are of an age to have seen this movie when it came out, the scene is often mentioned as the scariest thing you saw as a kid.
Interesting thing is, in the original stories Darby's encounter with the banshee happened quite differently. She actually wasn't trying to be scary; someone (actually Darby's neighbour, although he didn't know that at the time) had stolen her Golden Comb & she wanted it back.
I've not seen this, since a lad of 6 or 7. But, my opinion of the SFX then, has not changed.
As a kid, I knew Disney, capable of doing better.
Heck, I've seen other studios, do better.
I wasn't frightened then and how it looks, was as I remember...even some 50 plus years, on.
BUT, it was nice to see a young Sean Connery.
This scene scared the shit out of me as a kid. Lol 😂
The banshee was banished by a tiny firefly lantern which exploded like a small nuke.
The movie that guaranted Connery the Bond role
So how did Katie get hurt? Was she kicked by the horse?
She could have been? The same horse--which was previously revealed to have been a pooka--knocked Darby down a well earlier in the movie under orders of King Brian to bring Darby to his lair.
@@SankaJonesCreations also interesting that special effects in 1959 look way more realistic than the special effects in movies today
@@Jordan81577 Absolutely! Genuinely like, the only bad special effect I can think of in this whole movie is the one involving Darby falling down the well. Everything else is GREAT for something made in the late 50s
@@Jordan81577 Brilliant combination of optical effects. You have miniatures, rear projection, mirror/glass projection, and lots of forced perspective (especially the scenes with the leprechauns.) Most of it is all done at once, "composited" by using all the tricks above, and then filmed on set. So when you see them walking over the top of the mountain with the lightning behind them, they're probably relatively far away on a set made to look like a mountain path with a canvas backdrop behind the actors, then a "mountain" miniature or painting in the foreground that seamlessly blends with the mountain path in the background, and then some glass in front of the camera upon which they can project the lightning & clouds. You sandwich it all together to complete the illusion, then film it.
Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula movie from 1992 also did this. Lots of brilliant optical effects. If you're into special effects, it's one of the best. It's also only _one_ of two movies I'm aware of that did "old guy makeup" perfectly; the other being The Exorcist. Max von Sydow was only 44 in The Exorcist. _Fantastic_ makeup.
She could have just fell, it was night.
🎯🙄👼🗡️ 🎶 Ring-a Ring a Rooooosie...as the liiiiiiight decliiiiiiiines...I remember Dublin City...in the raaaaaaaaare ould times...🎶 - The High Kings.
The Rock of Dunamais outside Portlaoise
It DOES look a lot like that! All the locations in this movie were fabricated and/or shot outside Ireland, but the Rock of Dunamase is downright uncannily similar to Knocknasheega now that you mention it.
@SankaJonesCreations it is it I looked it up ,Google it ,it's been in lots of films
At 5yrs old after having the shit scared out of me… I started drinking
I've never seen this movie before but I would like to.
I was 6 when this came on TV and I couldn’t watch the banshee parts, way too scary. It took several more years before I could watch the whole thing. Way too intense. Just think what Disney studios could do with Lord of the Rings.
Disney sure knew how to scare kids, in a beneficial way of course.
I've always wondered how they did the effect of the banshee in this movie and who was the actress playing her? She still scares me to this day! 😱🙈🤣. I always thought that the actress playing Pony's mother was the actress who also played the banshee? Maybe? What do you guys think? 🤔🤔🤔
I never thought about it, but now you've got me curious,
According to Internet Movie Database (IMDB) She was played by a Panamanian-born actress/dancer named Joanne Genthon. She also had parts in major films such as Oklahoma, Vertigo, Some Like It Hot, and A Star Is Born. Unfortunately, she was almost always uncredited, so she never got the recognition she deserved. It's too bad: She was a beautiful actress and could have had a great career in Hollywood.
@@christiangibbs8534 I just looked her up! Wow. She was a beautiful lady! 😍 I'm less scared of that banshee now. 🤣 Thanks for the information. 👍
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I don't understand The Banshee is supposed to simply warn, not take. The Dullahan takes. More over Katie was just fine she just hit her head, sure it could've been severe she was just out cold not dead.
I think here she's not really "coming" for Katie, but is just showing herself before Darby as the O'Gill's banshee, since it's said usually only the family she keens for can hear (and in some cases see) their respective banshee.
@@SankaJonesCreations: Banshee's only Keene when a Family Member is about to die. Katie wasn't dead and Darby was fine and well for a man his age.
@@coltonbell8284 well head injuries are bad news, so she could have been about to die until the use of the 3rd wish.
On a sadder note, the actress in real life of a heart attack at age 38
@@DemonKingBadger: How old was she when she got the role of Katie O'Gill?
I wonder if the Banshee caused the storm
As I child, I felt evil in this film.
Reminds me of tales of Aileen The Burner... When his eye opens the whole world burns ...
Aillen plays the harp every Samhain that puts everyone to sleep and he burns the fortress at Tara. Until Finn MacCool saves the day!
"DIVIL TAKE YE"!!!!!!!