Shrooms (2008)
Shrooms (2008)
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Cast
as Tara
as Jake
as Troy
as Lisa
as Holly
as Ernie
as Bernie
as Bluto
as Mysterious Woman #2
as Mysterious Woman #1
as Paramedic
as Lonely Twin
as The Dog
as Black Brother
as Lonely Twin Double
as Lonely Twin's Brother
as Feral Boy
as Young Lonely Twin
as Black Brother Double
as Bluto Double
Critic Reviews for Shrooms
All Critics (18) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (14)
Even casual horror buffs have seen it all before.
[A] half-baked effort.
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.
As perhaps befits a film so concerned with being 'under the influence', Breathnach's hallucinogen-driven giallo turns its very derivativeness into a virtue, confounding viewers with a gleeful overdose of cinematic references.
Shrooms may seem great while you're under its spell, but once the drugs wear off and you wake up, it fades pretty quickly ... Still, it's not a bad trip while it lasts.
Besides a few swell looking shots, this movie is just garbage.
Audience Reviews for Shrooms
The Cow: I mean dead fucked. "Get Ready To Get Wasted" Shrooms is a movie that offers an interesting premise, but by the twenty minute mark, I realized what I really knew all along. It's nothing new. It's the same old, same old slasher, but the characters are going to be on mushrooms. It creates some solid, trippy imagery that will be something of a fond memory of anyone who has ever tripped before, but as far as a movie to watch; it's nothing special. So a group of friends travel to Ireland to meet up with a friend and go into the woods, camp, and find some magic mushrooms in the woods. The first night out one of the girls eats some mushroom that she shouldn't have. One that had a black dot on the top and goes into a seizure. She doesn't die, but the mushroom gives her the ability to see what she doesn't want to. She can see what's going to happen before it does. Soon it dives into exactly what you knew would happen from the very beginning. It's nothing more than another slasher trying to be the next "cult" hit. I liked the first twenty minutes or so where we were getting to know the characters. The acting was bad, but I expected that so it was no big deal. Also, the movie actually was visually not too bad. It created its atmosphere out of the cloudy, damp Ireland woods setting. Nothing original, but not a bad setting at all. If you want to watch a movie that is just another slasher because you love slashers, Shrooms may be worth a shot. If you want to see something new and original, it's not here in Shrooms. There's definitely an audience for this out there. You know those guys who love psychedelics love shit that's based off of psychedelics. The only problem is the audience for this particular film isn't that wide ranging.
Super Reviewer
Well that was a waste of time.
Super Reviewer
Couldn't finish it because I had a good idea where the film was going.... I've seen it all before- bad acting, young unlikable/shallow college kid characters, stupid jump scares, camping in the woods, etc. Usually I watch movies like this despite how tragically awful they are, but this time I stopped myself and watched something better. It felt good.
Super Reviewer
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