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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
User reviews of this film
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- Will H said...
- Posted on Jan 11 2011 06:53 the secret window meet psychedelic mushrooms, loved it watched it twice laughed every minute of it
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- holly said...
- Posted on Feb 08 2010 07:10 scariest movie ive ever seen! must see
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- moonshine said...
- Posted on Aug 19 2009 17:15 was so incredibly bored with this film that i began to work out my age in days, then weeks, then months, and then did that with every person i knew. it was slow, predictable, stupid and i saw nothing scary about any aspect of it.
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- wil said...
- Posted on Jun 28 2008 00:15 what a bag o' pish!
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- Dan said...
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Posted on May 17 2008 20:43
The ending is so predictable that if you havn't guessed it withing, say 15 minutes of the film, then you probably will LOVE this film, because you're too dimwited to know otherwise.
It's a paint by numbers film.
Everything is exactly as you'd expect.
It is also utterly silly, i don't think they planned this... but some of the things you are expected to find scarey are just a complete joke.
The "locals" for example.
Rented this film for free (thanks blockbusters for the free vouchers) - So i don't feel i've lost out.
It's mindless entertainment at its most mindless.
But it is entertaining nonetheless. - Report as inappropriate
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- Max said...
- Posted on Apr 15 2008 12:52 Film was ok. Nothing great though. Wasn't THAT predictable. It wasn't anything that original either. Learn to spell Sabrina.
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- Poop said...
- Posted on Dec 23 2007 21:28 I would recommend this film to anyone (over the age of 18)... Great movie, loved every second. very scary!
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- *(sabrina)* said...
- Posted on Dec 07 2007 18:00 DISH FILM WAZZZZ SIKKKKKKK MAN I SWEAR 2 GAAWDD U PPZ NEED 2 WTCH IT MAN :D ;)
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- gurpreet lyall said...
- Posted on Dec 04 2007 16:24 best film iv seen all year ... highly recommend it
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- Hannah said...
- Posted on Dec 03 2007 20:01 Acting was bloody abysmal but it was jumpy and a bit gory so good for fans of a scare. Not the best film and stupidly predictable but meh, i'm not whinging over lost time =P
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- jake said...
- Posted on Dec 03 2007 17:35 I havent seen it yet dont ruin it
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- becca said...
- Posted on Dec 01 2007 01:05 Its just every stereotype o a horror, not original in ANY way. I saw the ending coming way off and it didn't even make sense...
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- cabage said...
- Posted on Nov 30 2007 13:56 Mr J Bond stfu u complete nap ty gg
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- miss lolly said...
- Posted on Nov 29 2007 19:50 hilarious but jumpy...if you are 18-30 its a must see
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- Mr j bond said...
- Posted on Nov 24 2007 16:57 shaken not stirred
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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
Rated: 18
Duration: 84 mins
UK Release: Nov 23 2007
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