What It Is: A few American backpackers meet an Irish friend for a nice shroom trip in the woods... and are then stalked by a serial killer.Why I Watched It: It's a slasher movie about shrooms!
What I Thought: It wasn't a very good horror movie about shrooms.
The film follows the horribly standardized slasher movie plot seen in House of 1000 Corpses, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Touristas, etc. The violence in Shrooms wasn't at all groundbreaking so it had very little to offer aside from the novel concept of having the poor victims be tripping during the whole thing.
The fact that all the survivors were high meant that many strange visuals and scares could be easily justified since the sights didn't actually have to be real at all! It was an interesting twist, but not enough to redeem the movie from mediocrity.
Speaking of twists, there's a decent reveal at the end but again, it just wasn't enough.
Highlights: The reveal and an awesome setting in the mist woods of Ireland.
Who Should See It: I don't know. Bored horror buffs I suppose.
How Soon: No hurry.
2 comments:
wow, it sounds interesting enough, but yeah. i think i'd see it too, if for no other reason than just out of curiosity to see how they acted and filmed it. but yeah. it sounds like the movie Mood Swingers... give it a look if you've not seen it, James recommended it a few years back and it was actually pretty decent, especially for a drug/murderer-type movie.
Yeah, I reviewed this over on my blog last week. I didn't give it quite as much credit as you did. HA! I thought it was pretty much shit all the way around.
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