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Time Out rating:

<strong>Rating: </strong>2/5

User ratings:

<strong>Rating: </strong>3/5
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Time Out says

Tue Nov 20 2007

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

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Release details

Rated:

18

UK release:

Fri Nov 23 2007

Duration:

84 mins

Cast and crew

Cast:

Lindsey Haun, Toby Sedgwick, Sean McGinley, Don Wycherley, Maya Hazen, Robert Hoffman, Alice Greczyn, Max Kasch, Jack Huston

Production Designer:

Mark Geraghty

Editor:

Dermot Diskin

Cinematography:

Nanu Segal

Music:

Dario Marianelli

Director:

Paddy Breathnach

Screenwriter:

Pearse Elliott

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Rated as: 3/5 (8 ratings)

  • i lasted 15 minutes, my remote on-off switch 3 seconds more.. was it really shot in ireland? . the british character seemed to have a dick van dyke accent and back projection in car scenes so bad swear they were driving in an elephant stampede at one point.

    Gee Sun Nov 4 2012
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • the secret window meet psychedelic mushrooms, loved it watched it twice laughed every minute of it

    Will H Tue Jan 11 2011
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  • scariest movie ive ever seen! must see

    holly Mon Feb 8 2010
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • 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.

    moonshine Wed Aug 19 2009
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • what a bag o' pish!

    wil Fri Jun 27 2008
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  • 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.

    Dan Sat May 17 2008
    Rated as: 2/5
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  • Film was ok. Nothing great though. Wasn't THAT predictable. It wasn't anything that original either. Learn to spell Sabrina.

    Max Tue Apr 15 2008
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  • this film fuckin rocks and robert hoffman is sex on legs he needs get naked on film!!!

    laura Thu Mar 27 2008
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  • I would recommend this film to anyone (over the age of 18)... Great movie, loved every second. very scary!

    Poop Sun Dec 23 2007
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • I don't give a fuck what anybody else says shroom rules.

    bas Fri Dec 21 2007
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