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Year:	2006
Country of origin:	Ireland
Director:	Paddy Breathnach
Genre:	Trippy 'horror'
Starring:	Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Maya Hazen, Alice Greczyn, Robert Hoffman
Rating:	1/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492486/
Tagline:	Get Ready to Get Wasted
Favourite line:	None worth mentioning

Offensively bad modern 'MTV' horror.

Three desperately annoying couples go to Ireland to collect magic mushrooms and trip out. On their way to the famous Irish Magic Mushroom Field they encounter some toothless farming types, who menace them briefly before wandering off with their roadkill. They set up camp, and the 'Irish' member of the party (the others are American) tells a spooky tale. Then the mushrooms kick in, and all manner of bizarre and unpleasant happenings occur.

Sounds ok, doesn't it?
Wrong.
It's woeful.
The characters constantly refer to the mushrooms as 'shrooms' in an attempt to sound cool, and deserve a bloody demise for that alone.
The direction is slipshod, using trippy filters in inappropriate places. A tripped out PoV shot is fine, as we are meant to be seeing the world through a characters eyes, but a tripped out generic shot of a character walking through the woods is not. It just doesn't make sense.
Crucially though, nothing really happens, and there is at least thirty minutes spent on people wandering through the woods looking edgy.
It's only an hour and twenty minutes long, and I was bored titless by the end.
One of the worst films I've seen in a while.