Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Last Saturday I went to see "Shrooms".
Some media wag in the UK has summed up "Shrooms" as 'Blair Witch on Acid'. (Good line, that. It made it onto the poster!) That is a pretty accurate description, seeing as "Shrooms" deals with a group of disparate teenagers sampling natures' favourite hallucinogenic of choice in an isolated forest miles from civilization, whilst being picked off one by one by a force or forces unknown.
"Shrooms" is not a particularly original film. The plot is just a variation on a theme which has been mined many, many times over the years (how many films can you name about a group of isolated teenagers being butchered in interesting ways?), and the ending is not a surprise. But all is not lost because "Shrooms" does boast interesting imagery and cinematography, a handful of jump-out-of-your-seat scares and a good performance by Lindsay Haun. Actually Lindsay Haun is really good. She makes up for the (sometimes) variable performances of the rest of the cast.
"Shrooms". Not bad, but nothing new.
Some media wag in the UK has summed up "Shrooms" as 'Blair Witch on Acid'. (Good line, that. It made it onto the poster!) That is a pretty accurate description, seeing as "Shrooms" deals with a group of disparate teenagers sampling natures' favourite hallucinogenic of choice in an isolated forest miles from civilization, whilst being picked off one by one by a force or forces unknown.
"Shrooms" is not a particularly original film. The plot is just a variation on a theme which has been mined many, many times over the years (how many films can you name about a group of isolated teenagers being butchered in interesting ways?), and the ending is not a surprise. But all is not lost because "Shrooms" does boast interesting imagery and cinematography, a handful of jump-out-of-your-seat scares and a good performance by Lindsay Haun. Actually Lindsay Haun is really good. She makes up for the (sometimes) variable performances of the rest of the cast.
"Shrooms". Not bad, but nothing new.
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