07-14-2022, 10:34 AM
(seen on Hoopla)
A small group of college kids travel to Ireland to do mushrooms. Because as everyone knows, Ireland is the mushroom capital of the world. Their holy grail is the magic mushroom (Psilocybin). How do you identify it? It has a dark nipple on its cap. (In this regard they're much more revealing than the ladies in this movie.) But it's tricky, because there's also the notorious Death Cap, which looks just like it (dark nipple on the cap). The blond in the group, during a senseless moment (of which there are many, and no one seems immune), spontaneously eats a mushroom she comes upon. Yep, a Death Cap. It kills most people who eat it, but those who survive gain prophetic visions. Well, this blond goes into convulsions and stops breathing. Fortunately, a guy is there to give her mouth-to-mouth. This brings her back to life and she is immediately fine, except now she keeps having visions of members of the group being brutally killed. Yes, this is prophetic.
But I forgot to mention the indigenous people of Ireland. You see, while these college kids are driving out into the middle of nowhere so they can more easily be murdered one by one, they have an accident, hitting and killing a ram. Two yokels come out of the woods nearby and give them sinister looks. "Those are indigenous people," someone in the know says. "They just want the roadkill." He drags the carcass by the horns towards them and drops it, then returns to the group so they can head onward. Sure enough, the two indigenes cry their delight and descend upon the ram.
Okay, that takes care of the indigenous people of Ireland. About these college kids. They have a strange way of greeting each other. They jump in from off-screen to say hello. It's always startling to the person being greeted. These jump-scares make up a big part of the movie. Oh, and I wanted to ask DM about a line in the movie when one of the college kids notes that another one has OD'd on the heroin of shrooms.
There's a lot more to this tale, but I better leave some things unsaid lest I spoil it all.
Highly recommended for those seeking a deeper understanding of Ireland and its thriving shroom culture, and to realistic depictions of shroom trips that include a talking cow.
A small group of college kids travel to Ireland to do mushrooms. Because as everyone knows, Ireland is the mushroom capital of the world. Their holy grail is the magic mushroom (Psilocybin). How do you identify it? It has a dark nipple on its cap. (In this regard they're much more revealing than the ladies in this movie.) But it's tricky, because there's also the notorious Death Cap, which looks just like it (dark nipple on the cap). The blond in the group, during a senseless moment (of which there are many, and no one seems immune), spontaneously eats a mushroom she comes upon. Yep, a Death Cap. It kills most people who eat it, but those who survive gain prophetic visions. Well, this blond goes into convulsions and stops breathing. Fortunately, a guy is there to give her mouth-to-mouth. This brings her back to life and she is immediately fine, except now she keeps having visions of members of the group being brutally killed. Yes, this is prophetic.
But I forgot to mention the indigenous people of Ireland. You see, while these college kids are driving out into the middle of nowhere so they can more easily be murdered one by one, they have an accident, hitting and killing a ram. Two yokels come out of the woods nearby and give them sinister looks. "Those are indigenous people," someone in the know says. "They just want the roadkill." He drags the carcass by the horns towards them and drops it, then returns to the group so they can head onward. Sure enough, the two indigenes cry their delight and descend upon the ram.
Okay, that takes care of the indigenous people of Ireland. About these college kids. They have a strange way of greeting each other. They jump in from off-screen to say hello. It's always startling to the person being greeted. These jump-scares make up a big part of the movie. Oh, and I wanted to ask DM about a line in the movie when one of the college kids notes that another one has OD'd on the heroin of shrooms.
There's a lot more to this tale, but I better leave some things unsaid lest I spoil it all.
Highly recommended for those seeking a deeper understanding of Ireland and its thriving shroom culture, and to realistic depictions of shroom trips that include a talking cow.
