Once they arrive at their spot in the woods, Jake tells everyone to leave all their cell phones behind in the van so when they are tripping on shrooms they wont accidentally call the cops or an ambulance or other unnecessary calls. On their first mushroom hunt, three of them stumble across the dreaded Deathshead Fungi that Jake explains are so powerful that it kills most people by causing their heart, lungs and kidneys to explode. Legend has it, if you survive eating it the mushroom gives you the power to communicate with the dead, shapeshift, and have the gift of premonition. The ancient Irish druids believe it is a like a portal to another dimension.

Before Jake can find the others and warn them about these shrooms, Tara finds and accidentally eats one. She goes into seizures and stops breathing, only to be resuscitated by Jake. When she regains consciousness, Tara says she knew he was going to save her as she saw it in her head. She soon begins to have visions and see and hear things no one else can see.

With their first day of Mushroom hunting complete, they set up camp and make a fire. Jake tells a story about The Black Knights who had a house in those woods. Terrible things go went on in the house. Legend has it one of the Black Knights known as the Black Brother beat kids in the house with a spike weapon. There is a story of The Lonely Twin, a boy who was disfigured by the evil brother and forced to watch his twin brother be hung. The lonely brother went on a rampage but his body and the body of the evil Black Brother were never found. It is said they both still roam the woods and kill people with a metal spike to the face.

That same night everyone has a bit of a fight before bed. Everyone eventually goes to sleep but Tara has a vision her one friend Bluto goes into the woods and gets viciously killed. She wakes up to see he is missing, but finds him wandering in the woods. She brings him back to camp before before something back happens to him. However, the next morning Bluto is missing again and when they all go to phone help they find that Ludo went back to the car and stole all the cellphones. The guys and girls split up, and the girls end up finding Ludo's body slashed and buried in the woods. With Bluto already dead and Tara seeing visions of her friend’s deaths by a black clad killer, it is quite obvious there is something more dangerous in the woods than just a bad shroom trip.

Shrooms is a very simple horror film that is executed very well. It's use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in the story causes a good mix of fantasy and reality as some people see things while tripping and others don't. Most of the trips have some nice blurred camera effects to let us known what we see is someone tripping and at time this makes you feel like you yourself are witnessing these things. The cinematography was excellent as despite a lot of the film being running through the dark woods, there were still some great looking shots in the process. The film wasnt high on gore most the kills go unseen but the little blood it had was good and there were some other effects that caused me to jump a few times.

The acting wasn't anything spectacular, but suits the film well. Lindsey Haun who plays our heroine Tara does a good job of showing she can scream and yell a lot in the woods. Max Kasch plays the stoner of the group who reminds me of Jay from Kevin Smiths films, and he provides some good humor with his "karate" skills. I found a scene with Robert Hoffman who played Bluto to be hilarious when he was tripping and encountered a "talking" cow.