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Rating: Shrooms is a horror film from 2006, released in our theaters on August 22, 2008.
The plot tells the story of a group of five American friends who decide to isolate themselves in an Irish forest to try the famous hallucinogenic mushrooms. Despite the warnings, a girl in the group ingests a very dangerous mushroom, believed to grant powers of foresight. Gradually, the friends start to have disturbing visions and begin to disappear one by one.
The basic idea of the film is interesting and original, but the inclusion of too many clichés of the genre penalizes it. It's perhaps for this reason that the movie has been greatly underrated and soon forgotten (unjustly).
The setting is very well constructed and the scary moments are well-executed. Furthermore, the idea of creating confusion for the viewer, questioning whether what's happening is real or just the effect of the mushrooms, is genius and fairly well-exploited. The flaws of the film lie in the continuous déjà vus or genre clichés, compounded by the mediocre acting and some script defects.
A notable advantage of the film is the framing, which is well thought out and significantly contributes to maintaining suspense and tension, especially in the second part of the film where jump-scare scenes dominate.
The ending might not have been impossible to foresee, but in the end, not too easy either.
In conclusion, "Shrooms" may not be a masterpiece, but it is better, for example, than the umpteenth chapters of "Saw" and the like.
Recommended viewing.
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