Project Detail

Shrooms

Synopsis

A group of American teens go to rural Ireland in search of notoriously potent magic mushrooms. But legend has it that the area is haunted by the depraved ghosts of monks. After eating the mushrooms, the teenagers start to see terrifying visions and one of them turns up horrifically mutilated. Events spiral out of control as the friends are picked off one by one – but is this gruesome reality or a terrible hallucination?

Details

Year
2008
Type of film
Features
Running time
84 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Paddy Breathnach
Producer
Gail Egan
Editor
Dermot Diskin
Screenwriter
Pearse Elliott
Director of Photography
Nabu Segal
Production Designer
Mark Geragky
Sound
Simon Willis
Music
Dario Marianelli
Principal cast
Jack Huston, Cameron Douglas, Lindsey Haun

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Production Status

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Capitol Films

63-65 North Wharf Road
London W2 1LA
UK

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