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Shrooms (2006)

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User Rating: 4.8/10 (2,276 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Paddy Breathnach
Writer:
Pearse Elliott (writer)
Release Date:
1 February 2008 (USA) more view trailer
Genre:
Horror more
Tagline:
Get Ready to Get Wasted
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Trailer For UK Horror 'Freakdog' (From Bloody-Disgusting.com. 20 July 2008, 12:19 PM, PDT)
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User Comments:
Flawed But Fun! more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
Jake Allen ... Lonely Twin Double
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Additional Details

Runtime:
84 min | Germany:86 min (European Film Market)
Country:
Ireland
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Company:
Capitol Films more

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Continuity: After one of them hits the goat with a pipe, blood gets splattered on his face. But in the next shot the arrangement on blood on his face is different. more
Soundtrack:
Tiger more

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9 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
Flawed But Fun!, 3 December 2007
7/10
Author: Mr Saxon from United Kingdom

If you're already high on magic mushrooms and experiencing vivid hallucinogenic images, are the ghosts you keep seeing really there? This is the appealing premise around which Shrooms builds its story and it's a good one.

When a group of American students camping in a remote part of Ireland (a strange choice of location really - once the main characters reach their destination they could be anywhere) begin indulging in the pleasures of shrooms only to start perishing, is it the work of local ghosts... or are they just seeing things? Firstly, I'd like to say that although this movie has flaws - the acting (with the exception of lead actress Lindsey Haun) is only adequate, the characters could have been better defined (you get the jock, the "Jay from Jay And Silent Bob" style stoner, the two bitchy girls and the pretty virgin) and the ending is highly derivative of another, better horror movie - there is still a lot to love about Shrooms.

The main reason that this movie worked for me is down to the direction of Paddy Breathnach. There is a real sense of dread and gloom in some of the scenes, and the way in which the main antagonist is filmed is done very well; whether he's jerkily moving through trees or rising out of murky water. The location is, in itself, a character - a place of shadows, threatening trees and gloomy ponds. Breathnach also manages to convincingly capture the feeling of being out of your head as the camera flickers, or fades in and out of focus as the effects of the mushrooms are felt. In my opinion the later parts of Shrooms successfully come across like a bad trip. There's also a wonderful sequence involving a talking cow that adds humour to the movie and I would have loved to have seen a few more sequences like that. I would go so far as to say that Breathach's direction reminds me of Eli Roth (whether that's a good thing or not is up to you) and that comparison is easier to make due to the similarities between this and Roth's "Cabin Fever" movie.

Having read some of the comments here on IMDb, I'm not sure why so many people are responding so negatively about Shrooms. Yes, it seems to draw from movies such as The Blair Witch Project and Silent Hill for inspiration but, at the end of the day, it entertained me throughout its entire running time. I'd definitely watch it again and would certainly recommend it to other fans of the horror genre.

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Any guesses which movie the ending ripped off? astromagnet
This movie is a lie...and comes pretty close to being propaganda... goodfight1873
Am I the only one who liked it? hamcjunkinn
No Magic Mushrooms in the US? lcassap
Irish guy? krazy_amz
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