Review of Shrooms (2007) by Krisztian H — 04 Sep 2008

This isn't nearly as bad as I anticipated it to be. The story keeps some of its promise all the way through the second reel. The killers' designs are actually interesting and fear-inducing, though the kill scenes themselves are pretty uninspired (most boring and ineffective castration ever too).

It's too long a thing to explain how this story could have been salvaged. Simply put, some injection of humor and cliche removal. As a silly ghost/slasher story taking itself soberly seriously though, it's not as bad as most things I endure. I'm actually gonna rewatch this, if only to be scared shitless again by the wolf boy.

Retooling the image would require taking a more uniformed approach to camera effects, instead of compiling a diversified packet of "the camera tricks I learned in film school". The "tripping" could have been more consistently rendered and indicated, delineated from other different or "non-tripping" segments. There is no sense of blur or contrast here between "what is the trip vs. what is real" because the filming techniques seem too arbitrary instead of purposed.