Review of Shrooms (2007) by Simon D — 07 Aug 2011

I love scary movies, even bad ones, but I had a hard time just starting to watch this. I figured it would be our typical teens go to another country and die movie... for the most part I was right. This movie is about dumb teens going to Ireland to do dumb things and be dumb and then die. It also bothers me a bit, being Irish, that they make it sound like doing shrooms in Ireland is a thing... I have never heard of this but I rolled with it. The movie has its moments when she has the "trips/seizures" and sees into the future, but that kind of makes it less scary at the same time. This movie didn't really give me the creeps and it wasn't gory so I don't know what they were going for. The one plus I will give it for sure is it kept me interested enough to watch it to the end.

Spoiler?: I would also like to add that there were quite a few moments that just don't make sense. All this bad stuff is happening and its origin is quite obviously the mental or obedience hospital (whatever it was) and they decide to go to it. They have no reason to go there, they aren't there to destroy the source of evil like we see in some movies, they just decide to go there when things start getting hectic. They have to go out of their way to go there. Makes no sense. "All these bad things are happening, lets go to the worst and scariest place we can think of." Sorry, that bothered me, and I usually just deal with it, but this time I was just thinking "come on... Really? Why?".