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Shrooms (2007)
Director: Paddy Breathnach
Synopsis
When five American students arrive in Ireland to go on a camping trip with their old buddy Jake, they are in high spirits. Jake has promised them the ‘trip of a lifetime’ because he claims Ireland has the best magic mushrooms in the world. It sounds like a blast, but when they start tripping things don’t seem so funny. They’re off their heads in the middle of nowhere and something evil is watching. One of the gang is missing and another is having visions of their gory deaths. As the gruesome night unfolds it seems they really are going to get wasted…
Movie review
From Time Out London
Every element of Paddy Breathnach’s Irish slasher movie is so familiar that it feels like a dog-eared horror anthology found down the back of the sofa. Lured to rural Ireland by their college pal, Jake’s promise of the ultimate ‘magic mushroom’ trip, five American students (nice girl, jock, babe, geek, quirky hippy) are fed mind-altering fungi and spooky campfire stories about the sadistic Black Brother, whose ghost roams the woods. This is after they’ve run down a goat and met a pair of inbred, indigenous pig-fuckers called Ernie and Ernie. The kids are soon off their faces and up to their necks in gore. Reality is bent of shape, sanity slips away, and friendship is tested – with flashes here and there of ‘Ringu’, ‘Cabin Fever’ and ‘Severance’. ‘I’ve overdosed on the heroin of mushrooms,’ whines the annoying Tara, ‘and I don’t know what’s real and what’s not.’ Director Paddy Breathnach and scriptwriter Pearse Elliott think this is ‘Blair Witch’ on hallucinogens. It ain’t. They also think we’ll be so bowled over by the signposted ‘sucker punch’ ending. We weren’t.Author: Nigel Floyd
Time Out London Issue 1944: November 20-26 2007
Cast & crew
Director: Paddy Breathnach
Cast: Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Alice Greczyn, Robert Hoffman, Maya Hazen, Don Wycherley, Sean McGinley, Toby Sedgwick full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 84 mins
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