Research: 'Shrooms' 2007

'Shrooms' - 2007




'Shrooms' is about 3 American couples that travel to Ireland in such of the infamous trip you receive from magic mushrooms in that area. They camp out in the woods and whilst sitting round the campfire a terrifying tale is told that might have more truth to it than they realize. As the trip they are on gets more powerful people start to disappear and see horrifying images and people stalking them through the woods. It all starts to go wrong when the main character Tara eats a deaths head mushroom which are forbidden to eat. She instantly goes into convulsions and the campfire story becomes her reality. All characters are killed of one by one until Tara is rescued. The audience are then given the idea that all the killings could of possibly been due to Tara and her psychotic 'trip'.



When looking at the opening of 'Shrooms' i found this to be the perfect opening like 'The Hole' as the end of the film is shown at the beginning, This is the story line we are going for. I liked this opening because it had a girl running through a dark misty wooded area whilst disturbing images flashed up. This would be interesting to use as we could tie in images of the extent of the stalkers obsession. I looked further on through the film to see if there was any ideas that I could use for my opening sequence. I liked how they used shots through the trees of people running with the camera far away from the actor’s panning round them. I also liked how they used low shots of people crawling along the floor. Another part that I liked was the make-up and gore they created as we are looking to make our piece gory as we can to create more fear and tension.