Shrooms (2007)

 

Meh....

Mushrooms, psychedelics, a ghost story... What could go wrong and who will be the final girl? 

The answer might astound you. There will be murder and mayhem and hallucinations induced by mushrooms. Now I don't want to give the movie a bad rap, but seriously this was very cliche and the final twist wasn't even that twisty.

Lets get into some positives. The opening scenes were very well done and seemed very gripping and haunting. The problem was that that is where the good ended. 

As the movie was progressing I was becoming more disillusioned and my initial zeal about the impacting opening scene was dwindling with each cheesy line, unintelligible conversation and bad graphics. Now to defend the movie, even though the sound and imagery wasn't as great, I am getting the feeling that this wasn't a high budget movie (Now I don't know if this is true) so I am assuming they made do with what was around. This was also quite a few years ago so it is also possible that this was wonderful for its time and that the lines and movie wasn't cliche then. 

Now acting wise, I actually quite enjoyed it. The jokes were funny, the acting was good and the groups interactions were/felt real. When they acted scared you believed them and that's what made you sit closer to the screen. 

The ending really disappointed me as I saw it coming from a mile away and not in a good way. 

All in all, I didn't love the movie and I didn't despise it. It was just Meh... 

(Love the poster by the way!!!)

• Visuals: 3/10
• Sound quality: 3/10
• Visual effect: 6/10
• Sound effect: 3/10
• Character growth: 6/10
• Acting: 8/10
• Total: 5/10