Number Rolled: 35
Movie Name/Year: Shrooms
(2007)
Genre: Horror
Length: 84
minutes
Rating: NR
Director: Paddy
Breathnach
Writer: Pearse
Elliott
Actors: Lindsey
Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Maya Hazen, Alice Greczyn, Robert Hoffman, Don Wycherley,
Sean McGinley, Toby Sedgwick, Andre Pollack, Jack Gleeson, Mike Carbery, Anna
Tikhonova, Goranna McDonald, Berry Murphy, Joe Murphy, Joe Phelan, Stuart
Rankin
Five friends meet up in Ireland with a sixth. Together, they
go camping in order to harvest some “magic mushrooms.” Tara finds the wrong
kind of mushroom, a deathcap, and accidentally overdoses on it. After someone
gives her CPR, she begins to have premonitions of an evil force taking out her
friends.
This movie seriously creeped me out. Not because it was
fantastic or the story was all that amazing, nothing that simple. Throughout
the entire movie I was having a horrible time with déjà-vu. I remember seeing
everything I saw past the twenty minute mark, but I can’t remember seeing the
movie. It’s actually really bothering me. This is not the kind of movie I would
seek to watch for reasons other than this blog. The Netflix blurb makes it seem
way too run of the mill. I’ve decided to assume I caught it on cable once upon
a time and move on, but I’m still creeped out.
The problem is, the Netflix blurb isn’t wrong. This movie is
very run of the mill. If it weren’t for my aforementioned personal experience,
it would have left absolutely no impression on me. Come to think of it, that
statement alone is kind of proved by that aforementioned experience.
I wouldn’t blame the actors, they were just fine.
Unfortunately, the story was pretty much every urban legend ghost story in
creation. Every time you expect something to jump out of somewhere, you’re
probably going to be right. The ending was mildly interesting at best. Just,
nothing made this movie stand out plot-wise. Basic of the basic. True
mediocrity.
I need to try and figure out where I’ve seen it before.
Overall Opinion – 2.5/5
P.S. The Random Rating – R (for explicit/prolonged drug use
and extreme violence)