Shrooms
Shrooms is a 2007 psychological horror film written by Pearse Elliot and directed by Paddy Breathnach. The film stars Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, and Max Kasch. Its plot follows a group of American students and their English guide who are stalked by a serial killer while out in the woods looking for psilocybin mushrooms.
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.
More details
author | Pearse Elliott |
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contentLocation | Ireland |
director | Paddy Breathnach |
editor | Dermot Diskin |
genre | crime horror |
keywords | abandon break camp collect college friends even galerina garda garda síochána ghost story haunt haunted house jock jump kill morning murder psychedelic experience sole survivor trip twin brother |
musicBy | Dario Marianelli |
producer | Paddy McDonald Rob Walpole |
productionCompany | Treasure Films |
publisher | Vertigo Films |
theme | psychological horror serial killer slasher |