Shrooms - February 2008

When five American college students arrive in Ireland to go on camping trip with their old college buddy Jake, they are in high spirits. Jake has promised them the ‘trip’ of a lifetime’ because he claims Ireland has the best magic mushrooms in the world. It sounded like it would be great fun. Now that they are tripping things don’t seem so funny. BLUTO, one of the gang is missing. TARA thinks he’s dead because she feels she has seen his death before but nobody believes her they think she is just out of it. They’re out of it too. That was the whole point of coming here, but there is something out there, something watching them, something that will kill them if they don’t get out of the forest and get help.

Director: Paddy Breathnach
Producer: Rob Walpole
Writter: by Pearse Elliott
In Theathers: February 1, 2008
UK: November 23, 2007
Distributed by Vertigo Films (UK)
Genre: Horror

Casts:

• 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 McGinley as Bernie

Shrooms is a 2007 horror film about a group of American backpackers and their Irish guide who are stalked by a serial killer while out in the woods looking for psilocybin mushrooms. The film was written by Pearse Elliott directed by Paddy Breathnach, and stars Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, and Max Kasch. Reporting on the Horrorthon screening Patrick Thompson stated that Shrooms was the first film to be booed.