Shrooms (2007) poster
2007 · horror · mystery · supernatural · monster

Shrooms

Directed by Paddy Breathnach1h 24m2007
ElsewhereIMDb4.618kRT18%
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • intense
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

How every film is hand-scored →

A group of American teens comes to Ireland to visit a friend who takes them on a camping trip in search of the local, fabled magic mushrooms. When the psychedelics start taking hold, the panicked friends are attacked by ghostly creatures; but how can they determine whether what they are experiencing is reality or hallucination?

Our read · Shrooms (2007) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · mystery · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Where the cast leads
Where to watch
Not on streaming here right now.Check JustWatch Check Letterboxd
More info & search links
Fingerprint

The shape of Shrooms

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

You want trippy Irish woods horror where mushrooms blur guilt and reality.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 15attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug usegraphic violencejump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if drug-trip slasher confusion and grim twists will leave you cold.

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
Nearest by DNA

Eight films that read most like this one.

Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”

Your take
Rate it
star-clip-1-0star-clip-2-0star-clip-3-0star-clip-4-0star-clip-5-0
React
Discussion

Discussion

cmd enter to post

What does your Movie DNA look like?

Rate a few films you've seen. We map your taste across the same twelve axes and find the films you'll actually want to watch tonight.

Calibrate yourself