Shrooms (2007)

Wow! Such a good movie.

Load of rubbish!!

Absolutely Fantastic

Absolutely brilliant

Shrooms starts out as a promising low-budget horror with an interesting slant: a group led out into the Irish woods in search of hallucinogenic mushrooms (AKA 'shrooms'). However, following this decent first act everything soon descends into tedium, a state that, sadly, lasts for the rest of the film. Hence, from the time that Tara takes the wrong mushroom the film just becomes an interminable series of dream sequences, jump scares and a plethora of those annoying jerky edits that were all the rage in the mid-noughties to convey supernatural ghostly forms and creatures. As such, the film shifts from a bunch of bickering characters 'round the campfire to showing the same characters running around the woods, barns, a lake, and an old abandoned juvenile offenders house that was the scene of dread and violent acts (and the apparent source of the annoyingly jerky moving ghosts that punctuate the film). Of the characters, the young women start out as friends, but they mysteriously act like they are all mortal enemies as soon as they hit camp, while the males are split between the zen-like guide who knows the ways of the shrooms, an obligatory jock, a would-be Karate Kid, and a couple of ostensibly menacing Deliverance-style wood-dwelling yokels. There are various murders, with some gore (but nothing extravagant), and there is an apparent twist ending. However, of said twist, if you were listening to Jake's very detailed and curiously precise list of what happens if you imbibe the forbidden black-topped mushroom, then the conclusion is absolutely no surprise at all, and is thus very disappointing if you were expecting supernatural hi-jinks. In sum, I find films that are laced with dream-sequences to be a bit of a bore (although to be fair, since this one deals in psilocybin mushrooms then I guess such things are par for the course - but that does not make them any less tiresome). However, the final scene of the film, with a bloodied Tara, hands and face pressed against the glass of the back window of an ambulance for a very long time, is somewhat amusing. In fact, the scene is so protracted that you can almost see in the actor's eyes that she is thinking, "I've been madly staring out of this window for ages, when is the director going to shout "Cut?" Or did I miss that?" "Please shout "Cut!" as I feel really daft madly staring out of this window in my lame twist ending that is not a twist at all if you were listening to Jake's very detailed and curiously precise list of what happens if you imbibe the forbidden black-topped mushroom!"). Nevertheless, in the film's defence, Shrooms does have a talking cow, so that is something.

high tension is one horror film that i like, also blair witch was not bad, so this is a mix of it. what is not fair...the film is not so bad as its rated, it is like some others underrated, and some other really really crap is higher rated then this, so give it a chance, its a nice way of passing the time, it it is written right ,-) ??? in Germany we said so...so try it out, it is worth i think it is not a homemade film, acting is okay... and even if it is predictable ... all in all it is a solid horror filmlike always...sorry for my Englishgreetings from cologne

after the tripping began i hated every second of this movie. why is that? let me start with the story. its a typical teenager in the wood getting high and murdered story, with all the clichés that follows. the idea this time is that they are tripping on mushrooms, with isn't that bad an idea, but oh boy they messed it up big time. basically the story makes no sense and i had a really hard time figuring out what was happening. all the quick shifting from one location to another, and reality too dream/trip makes you confused, you cant tell what is happening. the shots are also made really badly, and you really don't see that much to the monsters (this time monks), other then a few seconds each time they appear. most you see of them is somebody walking around in a robe. i think they didn't have too much money for the effects. in all the surreal and fast edited scenes i stumbled across something weird, that i would like to point out. the one dude was killed in an old car, by a monk giving him a blow job? the writers must have been tripping. seeing how little effort and heart there is put into this s**t, it hurt me watching the nordisk film (danish film studio) logo in the beginning. when they use their money on crap like this, i don't wonder why danish film industry is in crisis. i would also complain, that i had a really hard time understanding what they where saying, especially the one character with an Irish accent, and the two hillbillies talking Irish. its okay they talk Irish, but put at least some subtitles on. or else it ruins the movie for the not Irish talking audience (the majority of the world population). but i have at least one positive thing to say about it. the settings in the woods and the light, gives it a dark atmosphere. combined with the mushrooms, there is some potential, but sadly not this time. so to conclude, i will say 1/10, because it is one of the worst made movies i have ever seen. and i will recommend potential audience to stay away from it, because you don't get anything other than annoyed, when watching it, especially if you want to see a horror movie or get scared.

I watched this movie several years ago when i was dating someone that had no money nor motivation so we watched horror flicks for a straight year lol. I have a point, there were only about a dozen that made an impression enough for me to recall it and recommend it to my friends. I loved this movie. Is it The Exorcist, no. But if you enjoy watching horror flicks anything you can get your hands on from Midnight Meat Train, to zombie flicks, to Saw.... You will love this. If I had to think of other movies that combined would create this I would go with Blair Witch Project meets young comedy Without a Paddle meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The movie has some funny moments but I would definitely not reference it as a comedy. It can be hard to follow at times and the characters can be annoying at times but sometimes it's necessary to not love all your characters. If you don't love horror flicks, you should pass but I'm thinking that if you are reading the reviews, this must be your genre. Watch the movie, I think most will really enjoy.