Shrooms

(2006) ***

Five teens meet up with a friend in Ireland to trip on some special druid magic mushrooms. They drive out to a mystical looking forest and proceed with said trip.

Tara ignores Jake’s warnings about the dreaded black topped druid super shrooms and takes one anyway. She starts having violent and disturbing hallucinations.

In the morning the rest of the gang partake in Jake’s mushroom tea and the bad trip begins for all. Tara sees each person being murdered. Bluto has a conversation with a cow.

Jake and Troy seem to be being pursued by a serial murderer. They are all running in different directions through the mystical druid forest and no one knows what is real or what is hallucination.

Whoa, talk about your bad trips. I think I would have rather opted for the brown acid at Woodstock then to have gone through what these folks experienced. Why Jake would invite them to travel thousands of miles so they could be totally freaked out I’m not sure.

This film is confusing and surreal, just as I expected. I much prefer the happy sixties or seventies trippy type films, though it really wasn’t bad. I gave it an extra ½ point for originality.