This isn't nearly as bad as I anticipated it to be. The story keeps some of its promise all the way through the second reel. The killers' designs are actually interesting and fear-inducing, though the kill scenes themselves are pretty uninspired (most boring and ineffective castration ever too).
It's too long a thing to explain how this story could have been salvaged. Simply put, some injection of humor and cliche removal. As a silly ghost/slasher story taking itself soberly seriously though, it's not as bad as most things I endure. I'm actually gonna rewatch this, if only to be scared shitless again by the wolf boy.
Retooling the image would require taking a more uniformed approach to camera effects, instead of compiling a diversified packet of "the camera tricks I learned in film school". The "tripping" could have been more consistently rendered and indicated, delineated from other different or "non-tripping" segments. There is no sense of blur or contrast here between "what is the trip vs. what is real" because the filming techniques seem too arbitrary instead of purposed.
This story definately had a twist as should have been expected with the name. I was expecting a cheesy movie but was pleasantly surprised because I enjoyed it.
When five American college students arrive in Ireland to go on camping trip with their old college buddy Jake, they are in high spirits. Jake has promised them the 'trip' of a lifetime' because he cla...( read more )ims Ireland has the best magic mushrooms in the world. It sounded like it would be great fun. Now that they are tripping things don't seem so funny. Bluto, one of the gang is missing. Tara thinks he's dead because she feels she has seen his death before but nobody believes her they think she is just out of it. They're out of it too. That was the whole point of coming here, but there is something out there, something watching them, something that will kill them if they don't get out of the forest and get help.
This film was a bit disappointing to be honest. I got easily distracted throughout it at parts, maybe if I didn't have a puppy fighting for my attention I possibly would have paid more attention to it.
It was ok and easy to watch. Not much of a compliment for a horror, I didn't find it really scary. It was a decent storyline and a nice twist to the end.
I loved that some of the scenes it looked as if you were tripping yourself, and the talking cow scene was absolutley hilarious.
There's almost nothing worse than when a movie falls apart at the very end. It makes it seem like such a waste, when you've been enjoying a film all along, and then the filmmakers do something so stupid to ruin all the good faith they've built up. Shrooms is just that type of film. For a low-budget horror film, I thought it was pretty well made, with some good photography, decent acting by a bunch of nobodies, a fairly interesting twist on the horror genre, a couple of cool trippy scenes, and it's all completely ruined by a last minute, unnecessary twist, that tore apart everything that I'd just seen.
Shrooms starts like a lot of horror films with a group of kids going into the woods to camp, take drugs and fornicate; and end up getting chopped into piece instead. What made it work for a good portion of the film is the care that the filmmakers take to make these cliche's somewhat different. The death scenes aren't fantastic, but the killer chasing them is made interesting by the fact that these kids are tripping out of their minds, so you're not quite sure if what they're seeing is real or a hallucination.
Each murder is telegraphed by the main girl Tara, who took some kind of super-shroom that should have killed her, but instead gave her the ability to see her friends gruesome deaths in advance. There seems to be some sort of black-hooded specter floating around these Irish woods, relishing in in the chance to chop them to bits. It also may be as simple as some mutated-redneck with a penchant for blood, which they strongly hint towards, by having a couple of backwoods brothers show up halfway through the film talking about their other crazy brother. But in the end the answer is even stupider, and ultimately doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense, in the way the killer is everywhere at once.
If they hadn't bothered with the last minute twist, I would have enjoyed Shrooms so much more. They should have left the murders a bit of a mystery, not giving us a firm grasp on what actually happened. Having a bunch of tripping-teenagers as our unreliable P.O.V. would have made it different and more ambitious. The film is nicely made, with some good, dark photography, trippy editing and creepy effects. It's also fairly funny in spots, I particularly like the talking cow scene, I thought it was pretty inspired. But ultimately a film is the sum of all its parts, and the stupid tacked on ending ruined, what could have been a decent little cult classic.
Sub-standard slasher that tries to be far more complicated than it is. All right if you're into talky, pretentious slasher flicks, but if you're going for something fun and bloody, you're looking in the wrong place. However, it does win bonus points for the talking cow.
This movie comes from Ireland, and yes it does deal with shrooms. A group of friends go with a friend to have a wild weekend shrooming. Of course someone has to eat a BAD shroom, and bam, who knows what is real, and what is fake. The movie was pretty good, it had some interesting shots I really liked. I kinda predicted the twisty ending. I agreed with John the death scenes should have been a little longer. The lesson we learned from this is Drugs are bad, we kind of already figured that out. Also if your last dying words to me are I love you, please do not share it out loud. I have to say those are the last words I would like someone to say to me. Good horror movie, you should give it a chance.
brilliant film, really unpredictable, fantastic ending, & the talking cow is hilarious! Really put me off ever doing shrooms lol. I recommend everyone who likes horror movies watch this!!
Shrooms to me was surprisingly original. And even more surprising to me was that it wasn't silly. Wich I have to say was kind of what I was expecting I meen it's a movie baced around kids going to Ireland to get high off of magic mushrooms. But somehow this director found a way to make it a actually really good horror movie. He could have gone in a million diffrent directions with this movie but chose to go the direction that no one was expecting him to go. Wich is what made this movie into somthing that kept your eyes glued to the screen and made you jump right along with the charecters. Shrooms had a good amount of blood and had pretty decent acting. All and all I have to say I extreamly enjoyed watching Shrooms, And it's definitly worth a check.
What a Title it just cracks me up saying it "Shrooms" who thought of this crap, i really don't mind wether or not that i will ever watch this film. For a Start a hate Mushrooms so just talking about a Shroom really isn't going to be my cup of tea!
"Don't eat the shrooms!"
Who wants to eat fungee anyway?... and even if you did want some all you'd have to do is find some weirdo and it will be growing off theey're foot!
This was better than I thought it would be. It wasn't scary, as in horror. What would be scary, is the reality of extreme hallucinations.
However, I did find this to be disturbing. The landscape was quite beautiful. There are many mushrooms, flowers and herbs that may cause these sought after effects, but they do come with a price. Shamans practice journeying with these as an aid--not the same reason most people want to try them. Becareful what you go a 'picking...therein lies a deadly poison.
I was expecting a real scary film, but i was dissapointed. There was only one bit that made you jump and that was at the end, but the plot was ok but the ending was rushed.
I liked the setting obviolsy because its in Ireland and there are too few films set in Ireland.The film made a good attempt to be creepy with the old house and the hooded figure.I also love films with a twist.
it wasnt very impressive sure it made me jumpy cause i have a thingy about dark and i was ready for bed to so i was kinda freaked out think id get major nightmares but al in all its was okayish
Well it could've been a lot worse. I didn't have very high expectations for this film, which perhaps explains why after seeing it I felt it was 'okay', decent enough but nothing special. The twist was a bit commonplace, it fit in with the mood of the film, but it is a twist that many other films have shown before, (especially over the past couple of years) and so I doubt any viewers were that suprised when it occured. Perhaps one of the problems with this film is the characters. I had no empathy for them (and certainly no sympathy, what do you expect if you pick something off the floor and eat it without checking it past the one person who knows what he's doing?). I didn't hate them either, which means that I cared very little as to the outcome of the film. It did its job of entertaining the viewer for an hour or two, but it's hardly the kind of film that leave the audience thinking about it afterwards.
A movie about a bunch of people in their young 20s who go over the Ireland in shroom season and start tripping after a night of horror stories about a local children?s institution. It?s basically lots of questioning whether they are tripping or whether people are actually dying and it gets old fast. There are lots of cheap scares throughout and the acting is sub par. The kind of acting you would expect from a generic horror film. I didn?t really feel sympathetic towards any of the characters and by two thirds of the way in I was just wishing they?d all die already so the movie could be over.
One minute the thing chasing them is a hillbilly, the next its some ghost in a cloak, the next it?s some manbearpig thing climbing trees. The movie had no focus. The big ?twist? at the end was terribly predictable.
It was good. Wasnt boring watched it all the way through but there were points where the film became ridiculous. It was a great film just un-realistic at points.
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