Take a bunch of daft American teenagers, send them over to Ireland to meet their hippy pals and go taking mushrooms in the middle of the woods, add in some inbred peasant goatherders living in middle of said woods, supposedly true campfire story of a children's home nearby run by sadistic monks that tortured the children before going on a rampage killing them all that supposedly haunt the area, have one of the teenagers flip out and having premonitions of something hunting them, then people start to go mising.. yeah, you get the idea.
Formulaic b-movie horror it is, nicking bits from blair witch, texas chainsaw massacre, the JUDDERMAN and whatever else it can find along the way but strangely not the complete utter gashfest I was expecting. Really, really nicely shot, some well excecuted 'tripping' camera effects, and half decent attempt at 'is this real or are they just hallucinating?', plus an amusing talking cow.
Other than that, expect plenty slow tension building with a 'boo!' at the end of it, some silly plot devices, completely idiotic reasoning by the main characters and a really silly ending.
But for all the faults, I couldn't actually say it was bad, and i was expecting a 'so rubbish it's actually good' movie with this.
So I'm not going to recommend it, but I can't say I didn't enjoy it a little.
Shrooms is out now. If you having nothing better to do, and an easily frightened girlfriend.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492486/
