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Paddy Breathnach (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Directors: Paddy Breathnach
  • Writers: Pearse Elliott
  • Format: PAL
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK
  • DVD Release Date: 5 May 2008
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001032022
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Slasher horror down in the woods, as three couples try some magic mushrooms - then wish they hadn't. When five American students arrive in Ireland to go camping with their old college friend Jake (Jack Huston), they decide to try out the local magic mushrooms, apparently the best in the world. But after they start tripping, reality and imagination begin to blur, as Jake tells stories of mutilated bodies and unsolved murders. Soon, members of the group start to go missing, and panic sets in when they begin to think something, or someone, is stalking them. But is it all just a case of bad trip paranoia, or is there really a crazed madman in their neck of the woods?

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Heavily influenced by the influx of Japanese horror films over the past few years, Shrooms is a muddled, yet intriguing film, albeit one with an identity crisis. Is it a conventional horror, or is trying to do something a bit different? Inevitably, it’s a little bit of both.

The basic concept could be the basis of any of the avalanche of horror films that have emerged in recent times: six American students in Ireland go hunting for some magic mushrooms. But what Shrooms does is try to distance itself from being a generic slasher movie, and instead attempts to inject some uncertainty. Yet when one of the party, after taking one of the ‘shrooms’ of the title, forsees trouble ahead, you can still pretty much see what’s around the corner.

Shrooms does work hard, though, with an at-times unsettling visual style, and some well earned jumps punching it above many of its contemporaries. But it’s not without problems of its own, not least the fact that the longer the film goes on, the further it goes off the rails.

But at least it had something to start with, and Shrooms does reward your time and money by the time the end credits roll. It’s far from the finest horror-thriller of recent times, but it’s got enough of an identity to hold its own. --Jon Foster

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3.0 out of 5 starsA fair 'teenagers get wasted in the country' horror
By Benminx on 15 Aug. 2011
Format: Blu-ray
Medium budget, Shrooms has a pleasant degree of gloss and decent acting.
However, let's face it, the entire plot is just a set-up to get teens in the woods and put them in harm's (and stupidity's) way. A small party of American students fly to Ireland to meet up with 'Jake' (a charming Jack Huston) who used to attend college with them. The educated tearaway with a gift for drugs, Jake is promising to show them the 'trip' of a lifetime by introducing them to magic mushrooms while they camp out in nature so that they can enjoy the experience undisturbed.
The group's relationships are nicely fleshed out with just a few scenes, with best buddies Lisa and Tara clearly viewing the less slick and well groomed Holly as an outsider. Holly is dating the skater kid who thinks he's a martial arts wizard, Lisa is dating dumb testosterone on-legs Bluto, and Tara is sweet on Jake.
The film has a nicely 'bleached out' visual look that makes the Irish woods feel eerie, and after the almost obligatory encounter with excessively retarded natives, the kids settle down at camp. After some medical drama and some nicely eerie scene-setting by means of an excellently told campfire story, the main plot kicks in, and the mushrooms start to affect people. It's a movie where you have to indulge it and go with the flow. Are they all tripping, or are they really being hunted by someone?
There's a lot of panic and running around, some enjoyably staged violence, and an interesting resolution.
It's not the best or the goriest horror you'll ever see, but it is memorable and enjoyable.
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3.0 out of 5 starsIt's not that bad
By Sparrow87 on 11 May 2009
Format: DVD
Shrooms is not as bad as a lot of these reviews have made it out to be. It is a bit uneven in pace and it really should have taken advantage of its 18 cert to ramp up the gore factor but otherwise it is okay, not a classic but okay.
There are far worse and better examples out there and all those who claim it to be one of the worst films they've ever seen are very fortunate not to have sat through some of the dross that I have.
Shrooms is about a bunch of American teens in Ireland visiting a friend and availing of the 'magic mushrooms' that are copiously littering the forest floor. One girl accidentally takes a 'Deaths Head' mushroom and things quickly spiral out of control with evil spirits in the woods, the group being killed off etc.
I agree with the reviewer who said they would like to see this premise revisited; if this or a sequel was ever re-made by a credible director and with a larger budget it has the potential to be a horror classic. Anyway, not too bad but they should have upped the horror in my opinion.
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4.0 out of 5 starsDamn good little horror/thriller flick, short on time and totally unlike Blair Witch (thank God)
By DAVE HORN on 13 Jun. 2009
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
I approached this film with trepidation after hearing mixed reports, mainly through my son and what his mates had said.

Some had aligned it with "Blair Witch" (and the cover blurb proclaims "Blair Witch on acid") which I absolutely loathed but any doubts proved groundless when I watched it. I was very pleasantly surprised. It is a damn good little horror/slasher film and bears no relation whatsoever to "Blair Witch" (thank goodness).

Director Paddy Breathnach (it is Irish after all) provides plenty death, destruction, blood and guts so it's not family viewing, hence the 18 rating which is just about justified.

I do have one criticism. The film is shoddily short on time, the end coming at only 1.21 then credits roll with music by Lindsay Haun (one of the actresses) and the Big Brothers.

A reasonable, though hardly generous, crop of extras comprise a director's commentary, 3 deleted and 2 alternative scenes, 2 alternative endings, bloopers, cast and crew interviews and a "behind the scenes".
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3.0 out of 5 starsDon't take it too seriously
By CatFitz on 3 Feb. 2011
Format: DVD
This is the kind of horror film to get when you don't want something too serious, and it's great for those kind of people, like me, who enjoy a horror film which is a bit OTT and people do ridiculous things in ridiculous places. There's plenty to get sarcastic about in this. Want to take some mushrooms? Well, clearly the only place to go is a forest in Ireland, and as this is supposed to be somewhere rural you need a couple of inbreds to lurk around looking deformed.

So, the happy campers settle in for a night round the camp fire and Jake, the guy in charge, tells a tale of an old children's home in the woods where the monks used to torture their orphan charges. In the woods there are two kinds of mushroom, one which gives you hallucinations, and one which supposedly gives you premonitions of future events. One of the children in revenge for his treatment doses the black monks' food and it drives them insane. The home is now abandoned but are there monks still haunting the woods for the unwary?

Tara takes one of the bad mushrooms and starts having premonitions of her friends' horrific deaths, and then they start disappearing one by one.

Yes, it's not going to win awards for its sparkling dialogue, and there are often things which happen which are just pretty stupid. Tara might well be very organised and is supposed to be the 'mother' of the group, but to pack tampons for everybody is a bit weird. However, there is something about this film which makes it good enough to watch the whole of. And there's a talking cow.
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