Shrooms (2007)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Paddy Breathnach

Writer:

Pearse Elliott (writer)

Release Date:

16 August 2007 (Russia)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Get Ready to Get Wasted

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Ambulance | Talking Animal | Broken Leg | Child Torture | Flashback

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Lindsey Haun	...	Tara
Jack Huston	...	Jake
Max Kasch	...	Troy
Maya Hazen	...	Lisa
Alice Greczyn	...	Holly
Robert Hoffman	...	Bluto
Don Wycherley	...	Ernie
Sean McGinley	...	Bernie
Toby Sedgwick	...	Black Brother
André Pollack	...	The Dog
Jack Gleeson	...	Lonely Twin
Mike Carbery	...	Paramedic
Anna Tikhonova	...	Mysterious Woman 1
Goranna McDonald	...	Mysterious Woman 2
Berry Murphy	...	Lonely Twin's Brother

Runtime:

84 min | Germany:86 min (European Film Market)

Country:

Ireland | Denmark | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:18 | UK:18 | Germany:16 | Portugal:M/16 | USA:Unrated (with warning) | France:-12 | Netherlands:16 | Italy:VM14 | Australia:MA (2008) | Finland:K-18 | New Zealand:R16

Company:

Capitol Films

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Cows are normally on big fields with other cows not alone in a dark forest without grass to eat.

Soundtrack:

Tiger

These shrooms are laced...

I cannot remember the last time a horror movie irritated me to this degree...SHROOMS is about a group of American friends (who actually don't appear to like each other much) who go to Ireland for vacation. They're obviously spoiled brats because the only thing on their mind when they're in freakin' IRELAND is getting their hands on some magic mushrooms ASAP. They meet up with some Irish friend (who is obviously British faking a bad Irish accent) that the lead girl (played by the creepy little girl from JC's VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED--the rest of her face has now caught up with her forehead, thank goodness) is creaming over. They immediately go camping in the woods and searching for shrooms. VotD girl gnaws on a mushroom that the Irish-but-British guy specifically said not to eat because it's poisonous. Soon she starts flipping out and having flash-forwards about her friends dying. It's up to her to save her friends from the ominous backwoodsmen, the creepy black-hooded ghost that pops up between people legs and/or above their heads, and the obvious overused plot twists in the script.

It seems like every line of dialogue spoken by the obnoxious 20-somethings in this movie features the word "shrooms." And you thought JUNOisms were annoying! If you took a sip of your Irish coffee every time someone in this movie said "shrooms," you'd be dead before the first jump scare.

The only good thing about SHROOMS is the movie poster, which features a skull shaped out of SHROOMS in the moonlight. Cool!