Shrooms - In the intoxication of death

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Movie
German title Shrooms - In the intoxication of death
Original title Shrooms
Country of production United Kingdom , Denmark , Ireland
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Paddy Breathnach
script Pearse Elliot
production Paddy McDonald ,
Rob Walpole
music Dario Marianelli
camera Well Segal
cut Dermot Diskin
occupation

Shrooms is a horror / mystery film by director Paddy Breathnach from 2007. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was then released directly on DVD in most countries.

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American student Tara spends her vacation with some friends in Ireland. There they want to camp in the forest with a friend named Jake and, under his guidance , collect and consume psychoactive mushrooms , so-called shrooms . As Tara moves away from the group, she accidentally eats a mushroom that gives her foreboding abilities.

By the campfire that evening, Jake tells a story of an abandoned orphanage that is said to be not far from the campground. A sadistic monk is said to have tortured and killed children there. One of the children is said to have poisoned his food in revenge for the murder of his brother, whereupon all the children were killed by the monk. The monk and the child are now supposed to sneak around and haunt the forest as ghosts. As the film progresses, Tara's friends die after hallucinations in which their friends are killed by the ghosts.

She is the only survivor to wake up when she is rescued by paramedics. In the ambulance, she realizes that she killed her friends in a frenzy caused by the mushrooms. The film ends with Tara killing the paramedic, escaping from the ambulance and wandering through the forest, confused.

Reviews

  • Oliver Hüssen had "the whole time the feeling that a great idea was simply badly implemented."
  • On the Rotten Tomatoes side , the film achieved an average rating of 22 percent from the critics and 27 percent from the audience (as of September 27, 2018).

Awards

Contrary to the negative reviews the film received upon its release, the work was nominated twice for the Irish Film and Television Awards 2008 in the categories of “Best Director” and “Best Film”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Shrooms - In the intoxication of death . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2007 (PDF; test number: 112 634 DVD).
  2. ↑ Oliver Hüssen: Shrooms - In the intoxication of death. In: Zelluloid.de. February 19, 2008, archived from the original on January 24, 2016 ; accessed on September 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Shrooms - In the intoxication of death at Rotten Tomatoes (English) Template: Rotten Tomatoes / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing, accessed on September 27, 2018.

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