Amthermandes Shrooms is one of those movies you should already know everything about before even watching it, just based on the premise. A group of friends experiencing mushrooms trips in the wilderness, turns into a deadly fiasco indistinguishable from reality. A standard run-of-the-mill campy horror flick, complete with a horror movie starter-set cast; the smart and relatable lead female character, the annoying idiot jock, the goofball stoner, the b*tch, the outcast female, and the handsome nice guy (who also is occasionally, like in this case, the foreigner). The movie has good, maybe even great moments. I especially like the 2 "locals," their characters aren't new to this genre, but they're fun and quite creepy and add an interesting flare to the movie. Some of the effects are well done, and the story is entertaining enough to keep you interested, and the very end gives the movie a nice touch.However, the movie is riddled with clichés, the predictable jumps scares, and the gore effects aren't as good as they could have been. There's a part towards the end of the movie where they had so many chances to make to good, but it turned out rather boring. Everything else is pretty standard, nothing special or particularly bad about the acting, directing, or screenplay. In short, it's an average run-of-the-mill horror flick. If you're looking for something amazing, this isn't it, but if you're bored or are just a horror fan looking to enlarge your viewing collection, it's definitely worth a watch.My favorite scene: The scene in the home of the two locals, I love the dialogue between them, very unsettling.

volvic_apple I was intrigued after reading the back of the DVD for Shrooms as I have experience with many psychedelics including LSD, Psilocybin Mushrooms and DMT. I was curious to see if this drug-infused slasher flick would let me revisit my previous hallucinatory experiences or would it simply be another "Reefer-Madness"-esque gorefest. Sadly the latter was correct.The film follows the standard formula for a teen slasher film. We are introduced to a group of American college students, including but not limited to: The steroid-fuelled jock; the hot girl(s); the stoner; the handsome, intelligent guy and last but not least; the heroine of the story. And yes, they are picked off in that order. The group travel to Ireland to see the beauty of the Irish hills and forests but primary to take "Shrooms" (Psilocybin or magic mushrooms). After a night of camping and hearing tales of how the woods are haunted by murderous spirits, the group awaken to find that the jock has gone missing. So, naturally, the best solution is to take a load of shrooms and go into the woods looking for him. As the trip kicks in, the group become separated and are gradually picked off one by one by the strange, evil spirits in the forest. Are these evil spirits real or are they just part of the trip? That's this film's lure and unfortunately it doesn't draw the audience in all that well.The problem with "Shrooms" is that apart from the hallucination angle, it doesn't have anything special that separates it from other slasher films. Anyone who has seen any of the Friday the 13ths knows exactly what's going to happen in this film. Hell, anyone who's seen any of the Wrong Turn films knows exactly what's going to happen here. The character's are so cardboard that it's impossible to warm to any of them. I felt no fear or adrenaline watching or anticipating them being slaughtered. The fact that they are tripping throughout the whole escapade doesn't even add much to the development of the film. It seems that the shrooms only effect is to confuse and disorientate the individual before they're slaughtered. If the film was less of a slasher and more of a psychological thriller it would have been much more entertaining. If the film focused on the psychological and hallucinatory effects of the shrooms rather than simply hack 'n' slash then I would have been much more satisfied. Unfortunately this is just another run- of-the-mill slasher flick that will long be forgotten of.To conclude, I really cannot see anything positive in Shrooms. It's bland, boring and laughable. The film was clearly written by someone who has no experience with magic mushrooms, only what they learned in school (I.e "drugs are bad m'kay, you'll lose your mind!"). I'm annoyed that I wasted two hours of my life watching this when I could have watched something much more entertaining, or better yet I could have gone shrooming!

hr-boege-546-170392 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.

TdSmth5 What is it with Ireland and hallucinogenic mushrooms? This the second movie about mushroom and Ireland I've seen recently. Shrooms isn't as dismal and unwatchable as Puffball fortunately.Five American kids travel to Ireland for the sole purpose of getting high in the woods. They meet up there with some expert junkie. He teaches them what shrooms to gather and tells them two campfire tales at night, one erotic one and one horrific one. Both come true for the kids once they start taking shrooms.The main character, Tara, takes the wrong kind of shroom, one that gives her the power of premonitions and epileptic fits, and also, postmonition so to speak. She starts seeing all the horrible things that will and do happen to the kids. There's no shortage of villains, there are the local country folk, who in good movie fashion are these scary inbred types, there is some hairy creature thing, some other creature that looks like a witch with sharp teeth, and something else with a bag over its head. Despite all of Tara's warning the kids do everything wrong and get in trouble.The 3 girls are beautiful and the entire cast can act. There are some cool foggy forest images. Overall, things though are pretty slow and dull. Until, you get to the end and the surprise twist. That was really good and surprised me. Hard to recommend a movie solely for the ending though.