Jan 18 2008'Shrooms' Trailer is Totally Trippy, Man
You know how much fun it is to watch other people do drugs, when you're not doing anything yourself? Pretty great, right? That wonderful feeling of awkward exclusion combined with the realization--like hearing the description of a long, crazy dream--that nothing someone is saying matters outside of their own imagination. What if I said someone combined that with an equally pointless, cliched teen slasher flick? I'm saying just that!
Watch the trailer below the cut, if you aren't already in line at the theater. Wonder if it's actually Jason Mewes or just a character trying desperately to look like him (it's the latter). Note the clever cinematic tricks being used to convey the feeling of actual madness produced by magic mushrooms (is that slight double-vision I detect?). And thank Kyle for finding this gem.
Reader Comments
1. Mer - January 18, 2008 1:55 PM
Ha, somebody has certainly never done mushrooms in their life.
Although I did like that "default scream" tossed in at the end.
2. Kyle - January 18, 2008 2:26 PM
I am more excited for the taglines on the poster - when it hits. Something like "A trip they'll never forget" or "Some trips must be paid in blood".
3. databody - January 18, 2008 4:40 PM
this looks like something they would show in D.A.R.E.
4. Christhefuzzy - January 18, 2008 6:34 PM
HA! That's the scream the "fast zombies" from Half-Life 2 make!
5. Brian - January 18, 2008 6:37 PM
i seen this film aaaaaaaaaages ago! its not too bad actually!
6. shootingstar05 - January 18, 2008 6:38 PM
actually, the tagline isn't that clever:
Get ready to get wasted.
oh, i will.
7. martygras9 - January 18, 2008 6:39 PM
I'll take you back one further, Christthefuzzy. That scream is originally from Dark Forces for the PC.
8. Connor - January 18, 2008 9:46 PM
This is what they should show in health to steer students away from doing drugs.
9. Radioactive Bumfluff - January 18, 2008 10:14 PM
What a god awful movie!!! The film is full of problems.
1. The film is set in Ireland, yet there's only two Irish people in the movie, and they're inbred farm boys!!
2. The main guy in the movie is supposed to be Irish, yet has an English accent!! wtf!!
3. The American kids, just get off a plane at the start of the movie, and the dumb fuck English guy picks them up from the airport, and takes them searching for mushrooms in the forest straight away and goes camping! Hello!!! They just got off an 8 hour fucking flight from the States, so they're probably tired and hungry, not really in the mood to go camping and go searching for mushrooms!!
There's loads more stupid things throughout the movie, but don't wanna spoil the movie for you, (or save you from watching this stinking pile of cack!!)
Personally I'd rather fuck a melon that watch this shit again!!!
10. Elle Driver - January 18, 2008 10:48 PM
Shrooms are awesome. Why must Hollywood shit on everything I love?
11. cyril - January 18, 2008 11:08 PM
that scream is from StarCraft when you select the science building...
12. ZenKimchi - January 18, 2008 11:16 PM
The scream sounded like a TIE fighter to me.
13. nightcrow - January 19, 2008 6:51 PM
came out in UK ages ago!
14. DanRusk - January 20, 2008 2:40 PM
That scream is the same as the nickelodeon cartoon "Ahhh! Real Monsters"
15. Dan - February 16, 2008 1:29 PM
The scream was clearly from the sound you get when you click on "The Academy" in Starcraft. As for the nice "Thunk" noises which sound like somone getting stabbed, I presume, that's Morrowind right there.