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[goodgem]

A group of American teens come to Ireland to visit an Irish school friend who takes them on a camping trip in search of the local, fabled magic mushrooms. When the hallucinations start taking hold, the panicked friends are attacked by ghostly creatures; never able to determine if they are experiencing gruesome reality or startling delirium. When one teenager unknowingly eats the dangerous Death's Head mushroom, the group's nightmare takes a deeply sinister turn...

--UK Release Date: 9th of November 2007--

[spot]

The movie's producers must have been so annoyed. It gets scripted that way because magic mushrooms were legal in Ireland, they start putting the movie together, they pass the point of no return and bang, the Irish government bans them in January last year. The whole plotline disintegrates. I wonder if they had insurance?

[spot]

You're not coming back, goodgem? I wondered whether you wanted to talk about it rather than just fly-post. http://www.google.com/search?source=...=Google+Search does tend to imply that you're just walking through with a pastebrush.

I bet the script-writers screwed up on the time it takes for the death-cap to kill people. "Death generally occurs six to sixteen days after the poisoning", for example, and "due to the delay between ingestion and the first symptoms of poisoning, it is commonplace for patients to arrive for treatment many hours after ingestion".

Death-Cap, note. Not Death's Head. The one exists, the other doesn't.

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by spot

Death-Cap, note. Not Death's Head. The one exists, the other doesn't.

There's a death's head hawk moth, I wonder whether it was one of them?

The whole thing sounds like rubbish, though - how could they be attacked by "ghostly creatures"? I bet they were just people, dressed up.

[Bez]

I'm not a lover of Horror films although I liked Silence of the lambs, Carrie, The exorcist. I like psychological thrillers and some of them are pretty gory but at least there is 'story' behind them.

Anyone watch 'Cold Blood' on Wednesday night TV ?

[Galbally]

Oh you mean thats what those mushrooms were then??? And now I understand why we have so many American teenagers walking around here tripping of their heads seeing leprechauns. I have to say though, a few people have died here due to extascy, many from road deaths, many from cigarettes and drinking, but how many have died from eating death caps recently, hmmmn, I must check that one out.

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by Bez

I'm not a lover of Horror films although I liked Silence of the lambs

Why did they munge the ending so badly, though?

Seriously I am getting sick of horror films consisting of a group of teenagers.
I love horror movies.. they are my favorite.. the scarier the better.. If I can't sleep that night it was a good movie.

[SouthAPT]

IMO, there hasn't been any good horror movies made in a while. I agree, the groups of teenagers is old new. I think Im just too old now and movies dont really scare me.

[goodgem]

Seeing teens getting eaten by ghostly creatures... is exciting.......
what do you think pepz?? if they saw the ghost before, or after they ate the shrooms..
Can't wait to see this film.......