paddy breathnach's SHROOMS (2007)

part of me wouldn't have minded enjoying Shrooms; the premise isn't necessarily the worst that teen horror has to offer, and it's put together handsomely enough. but damned if it doesn't use its psychotropic premise as an excuse not to make any sense, and as such forgoes any real scares despite the odd tense moment. and more egregious than the nonsense is that the film gets so caught up in its boring, hackneyed twist that it almost entirely forgets to mislead beyond a bit of cursory j-horror aesthetic pilfering. we're misled into thinking there's a supernatural element to the proceedings, and its three manifestations could have been genuinely interesting and even (gasp!) scary in their dynamic interrelations, but despite their seeming high profile, the script never thinks to treat the supposed ghosts/monsters/whatevs as anything but a throwaway red herring.