It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

I saw this movie on Netflix after it came out in Theaters. It wasn't a great horror flick as I expected. Good enough for what it is and not to be overly critical about character development. It was fairly erratic. The big thing is that it was gripping to keep my attention and not walk away from it. We all have our own opinions and depends on what you expect from a movie like Shrooms.

high tension is one horror film that i like, also blair witch was not bad, so this is a mix of it. what is not fair...the film is not so bad as its rated, it is like some others underrated, and some other really really crap is higher rated then this, so give it a chance, its a nice way of passing the time, it it is written right ,-) ??? in Germany we said so...so try it out, it is worth i think it is not a homemade film, acting is okay... and even if it is predictable ... all in all it is a solid horror filmlike always...sorry for my Englishgreetings from cologne

I was intrigued after reading the back of the DVD for Shrooms as I have experience with many psychedelics including LSD, Psilocybin Mushrooms and DMT. I was curious to see if this drug-infused slasher flick would let me revisit my previous hallucinatory experiences or would it simply be another "Reefer-Madness"-esque gorefest. Sadly the latter was correct.The film follows the standard formula for a teen slasher film. We are introduced to a group of American college students, including but not limited to: The steroid-fuelled jock; the hot girl(s); the stoner; the handsome, intelligent guy and last but not least; the heroine of the story. And yes, they are picked off in that order. The group travel to Ireland to see the beauty of the Irish hills and forests but primary to take "Shrooms" (Psilocybin or magic mushrooms). After a night of camping and hearing tales of how the woods are haunted by murderous spirits, the group awaken to find that the jock has gone missing. So, naturally, the best solution is to take a load of shrooms and go into the woods looking for him. As the trip kicks in, the group become separated and are gradually picked off one by one by the strange, evil spirits in the forest. Are these evil spirits real or are they just part of the trip? That's this film's lure and unfortunately it doesn't draw the audience in all that well.The problem with "Shrooms" is that apart from the hallucination angle, it doesn't have anything special that separates it from other slasher films. Anyone who has seen any of the Friday the 13ths knows exactly what's going to happen in this film. Hell, anyone who's seen any of the Wrong Turn films knows exactly what's going to happen here. The character's are so cardboard that it's impossible to warm to any of them. I felt no fear or adrenaline watching or anticipating them being slaughtered. The fact that they are tripping throughout the whole escapade doesn't even add much to the development of the film. It seems that the shrooms only effect is to confuse and disorientate the individual before they're slaughtered. If the film was less of a slasher and more of a psychological thriller it would have been much more entertaining. If the film focused on the psychological and hallucinatory effects of the shrooms rather than simply hack 'n' slash then I would have been much more satisfied. Unfortunately this is just another run- of-the-mill slasher flick that will long be forgotten of.To conclude, I really cannot see anything positive in Shrooms. It's bland, boring and laughable. The film was clearly written by someone who has no experience with magic mushrooms, only what they learned in school (I.e "drugs are bad m'kay, you'll lose your mind!"). I'm annoyed that I wasted two hours of my life watching this when I could have watched something much more entertaining, or better yet I could have gone shrooming!

Shrooms takes a potentially interesting premise and goes nowhere with it. It has a unique setting in Ireland, but turns into a standard American-style killer in the woods movie. It has hallucinogenic mushrooms but little trippy imagery, and it has an ending you'll see coming miles away. In short, it has nothing.American college students go off to the woods for a bit of psychedelic mushroom hunting. Things start to turn bad when one of the students takes a particularly toxic shroom. This does not bode well for them or the viewer.The film has a number of issues one could go after. The characters are just too dumb to live. First, they decide it's a great idea to go gallivanting around the woods even after they learn there are a pair of creepy inbred shepherds wandering around. Then, they don't leave the woods to seek medical attention after one of them ingests a lethal mushroom that the resident shroom expert knows causes psychotic reactions. The ending, in which the protagonist turns out to have killed her friends in a toadstool-induced delirium, is all too predictable.However, the main flaw is that the filmmakers don't take advantage of their concept. With the exception of one scene involving a talking cow, there is no real hallucinogenic imagery in the movie. Had the director had any sense, he would have turned the movie into an hour and a half of psychedelic thrills. Even if it wasn't scary, it would at least have been interesting.