Shrooms (film)
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| Shrooms | |
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| Directed by | Paddy Breathnach |
| Written by | Pearse Elliott |
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| Cinematography | Nanu Segal |
| Edited by | Dermot Diskin |
| Music by | Dario Marianelli |
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| Distributed by | Vertigo Films |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Countries | |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $4.9 million[2] |
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Plot
American student Tara and her college friends visit Ireland to meet with local resident and friend Jake, and go camping in woodlands surrounding a long-disused children's home. While collecting psilocybin mushrooms for later consumption, Tara eats a death bell mushroom (Galerina) and suffers a seizure after which she experiences dream-like trances in which she begins having premonitions of future events.
Around the evening camp fire, with Tara resting in her tent, Jake tells a ghost story of the empty children's home nearby, and of a violent sadistic monk who survived an assault by one of his charges, as revenge for killing his twin brother. Overhearing this causes Tara to have premonitions of the murders of her friends.
After a deathly row with his girlfriend and the others, aggressive
The following morning, unconcerned by Bluto's disappearance – the others consume the mushroom tea, only to become separated from one another in the woods while under its effects. The three women, arguing and squabbling, get lost until they themselves are split, and Holly and Lisa are violently murdered – in accordance with Tara's continuing visions – after an encounter with local woodsmen Ernie and Bernie.
Jake and Troy find Tara on the bank of a river, and tell her to meet them in the abandoned home to summon help. Upon investigating the property, Troy is apparently killed by the monk, and Jake escapes by jumping from a high window, breaking his leg as he lands. Tara finds him and the two flee the
Tara awakes as a Garda helicopter hovers over the camp, and is dispatched into an ambulance as the sole survivor. As her mobile phone rings, she experiences a rapid flashback and realizes that the death bell mushroom caused her to murder all of her friends. She asks the paramedic for help. Everything becomes quiet until we see her bloody hands holding a pair of bloody scissors which suggests that she has killed the paramedic. The film ends with Tara running in the woods.
Cast
- Lindsey Haun as Tara
- Max Kasch as Troy
- Jack Huston as Jake
- Robert Hoffman as Bluto
- Maya Hazen as Lisa
- Alice Greczyn as Holly
- Don Wycherley as Ernie
- Sean McGinleyas Bernie
- David McGinley as Dale
- Toby Sedgwick as Black Brother
- André Pollack as The Dog
- Jack Gleeson as Lonely Twin
- Joe Phelan as Young Lonely Twin
- Mike Carbery as Paramedic
- Anna Tikhonova as Mysterious Woman 1
- Goranna McDonald as Mysterious Woman 2
- Berry Murphy as Lonely Twin's Brother
- Joe Murphy as Feral Boy
- Stuart Rankin as Extra
Production
An Irish, Danish, and British co-production,[1] Shrooms was shot over a period of seven weeks in April and May 2006 in locations including Gosford Park, County Armagh, Northern Ireland[3] and Rossmore Forest Park in County Monaghan, Ireland.[4]
Reception
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Shrooms (2007)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
- ^ "Breathnach & Huston On Spine Chiller 'Shrooms' | The Irish Film & Television Network". www.iftn.ie. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ "Celebrating Northern Ireland's Most Spooky Films". Culture Night Belfast. 30 October 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ "Shrooms". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ Elley, Derek (22 August 2007). "Shrooms Review". Variety. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ Clarke, Donald (23 November 2007). "Shrooms". The Irish Times. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
