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Shrooms (2007)

Director: Paddy Breathnach

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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…

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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 2007-11-20 12:21:47

Time Out London Issue 1944: November 20-26 2007

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  • laura said...
    Posted on Mar 27 2008 12:22 this film fuckin rocks and robert hoffman is sex on legs he needs get naked on film!!!
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  • bas said...
    Posted on Dec 21 2007 16:42 I don't give a fuck what anybody else says shroom rules.
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  • sabrina said...
    Posted on Dec 11 2007 01:05 this movie freakin rocked!LINDSAY HAUN is such an awsome actresse and i give her performance in this movie 2 thumbs up!i was so shocked at the end of the movie.it was truley a twist to the story.
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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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