Step aside mr. potato because mushrooms is the new veggie of choice in Ireland
Added 5/23/2009
When Sid ponders a horror film set in Ireland automatically the mind goes to the Leprechaun series. It made us believe we'd found Ireland's #1 cause of death. Well our little friend the Leprechaun has some competition coming in the way of fungi. However these are not your average mushroom you'd find on a nice chicken marsala. These are magic mushrooms in their most potent form. And naturally when you're ingesting the world's most potent shrooms the best place to be is not on your couch in peace but a haunted forest.
We start out with a group of 5 as they take a trip to Ireland exclusively to camp out and eat some shrooms. They probably could've just done that in the states, but hey we're not asking questions. The main character Tara took the flight hoping she'd land her summer flame Jake to further things along. Jake lives in Ireland and set this whole trip up for them. He appears to be the world's ultimate authority on the shroom. After they get to the camp ground and set up shop Jake orders the crew not to eat the black tipped mushrooms which usually cause death or worse if you survive after eating it. It will bring on very dark visions and communications with spirit world. Yikes! Tara happened to trail off before she heard the warning and eats one of the black tip shrooms causing her to have some insane hallucinogenic visions. She begins to see the hooded ghost that lurks the woods and one bu one see's how all her friends will die. From here on out it's pretty choatic and creepy. You get a lot of trippy visions, some inbred hillbillies, and a talking cow. You really can't go wrong in any sense with a combo like that.
The film appears to get a bad rap from most reviewers but it's pretty good. The film has a very dark creepy vibe which is perfect for the whole shroom trip experience. It's not something you're going to be terrified while watching, but you will have a few jumps. Also the ending finishes up the flick with a very nice twist which is so rare to find in the horror of today. The real message this one shows is to keep you a** at home if you plan on trippin balls.
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decent low budget horror movie
Added 4/28/2009
"Shrooms" is decent little horror movie with a good message.
The message is that brain altering drugs can cause some real problems to ones brain and sanity. The psych wards are filled with people whose trips left them with multiple personalities. And many others suffer from this caused condition in silence. I personally knew at least three people who had bad trips that turned them very violent, so this movie is grounded in reality far more than the average horror flick. Although it's hard to relate to the main cast members traveling to Ireland and instead of seeing the many awesome sights the country has to offer; going off for a mushroom trip? What a waste of time! So is there a dog boy hunting them down? or is it a hallucination that they all share? You will have to see this competently acted movie to find out. And you could do far worse than this movie ( at this budget).
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A good movie
Added 4/20/2009
This movie was a wonderful surprize to me. I was not expecting much when I first watched it but it turned out to be a very good movie. I liked how the movie kind of kept you guessing thru the hole thing.
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Propaganda
Added 4/15/2009
I'm not going to review this movie based on it's quality. I'm going to be honest that I'm no professional critic, and did not pay close enough attention to the different aspects that make a good movie. I can however say that it does not come close to 5 stars.
Instead I'm just going to expel the reason I'm writing this review:
I believe this movie is part of propaganda to further scare people away from going near magic mushrooms. Type the word Shrooms into google and you get one movie, and look! It's horror. Subconciously, that alone can deter people with negative vibes and add a great deal to any skepticism or ignorance they had earlier, feeding on fear. There are enough ridiculous folklore/rumors about shrooms that circulate the mainstream, based solely on their "hallucinogenic" properties.
Okay, the movie does give a very brief background of the true nature of magic mushrooms, but this was necessary for it to achieve anything somewhat decent. Overall, as a movie, it was alright - nothing special. The plot was rather stupid. If not as propaganda, I can't help but wonder why this movie was even made. Maybe the people behind it thought they had a grasp on something original - the idea of integrating magic mushrooms and horror....?
If you're considering watching this movie based solely on the title, (yes I admit it is what lured me in) SAVE YOUR TIME AND MONEY. Not worth it. The only thing psychedelic about this movie is the characters physically hunt for and eat shrooms. It ends there.
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Decent, psychidelic slasher
Added 11/6/2008
What happens when a group of college kids take a trip to Ireland to partake in some psychidelic mushroom eating? They get slashed to bits by an insane killer that's what! Shrooms doesn't try to do anything new, but for its brisk running time, it manages to deliver some great atmosphere (thanks to the genuinely creepy Irish woods) and some surprisingly decent acting (the gorgeous Lindsey Haun is the lead screamer here, and Step Up 2's Robert Hoffman is here as the over-sexed jock) to boot. Where Shrooms disappoints is in terms of its gore, of which the film actually comes up pretty light. What little blood there is is fairly done, but gorehounds and slasher addicts will be disappointed. Still, there manages to be some good psychidelic film tricks, and a twist ending that you'll either dig or hate, depending on your degree of jadedness with the genre. All in all, Shrooms isn't a bad trip (seriously, no pun intended), and is worth checking out for slasher fans.
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