"Get Ready to Get Wasted"
I first watched this film with my mum (a+ parenting, right?) way back in '09-ish when I was about 14 and it's been one of my all time favourite movies ever since. I'd probably go so far as to say it was one of the films that sparked my obsession with horror in general.
But garnering on average only a 4.7 on IMDb I can't help but feel maybe a tad weird for giving it a perfect 10.
I suppose it's basically your average teen camping type movie, but I feel like it has a bit more of a twist what with it not being a classic Friday the 13th style slasher film.
The film takes place in a remote area of Ireland, when a group of 5 "Yankee junkie mother fuckers" go to meet Jake (Jack Huston; Not Fade Away) a friend of typical stoner Troy (Max Kasch; Red Eye) and self proclaimed hallucinogen aficionado. They arrive there in the midst of shroom season and fancy sampling the wares the place has to offer.
The beginning of the trip (no pun intended (;) goes seemingly according to plan; everything is going fine, shrooms have been picked and as always we even get to see some action between one of the couples. (I'm not a pervert dw, I just don't that think these movies work without a bit of a romp)
But then oooooooh no, something goes wrong in a horror movie oh my god!
The only single female, Tara (Lindsey Haun; The Color of Friendship) decides "I think I'll risk total organ failure" and eats the a Death's Head shroom, after being warned not to by the way, and goes into what can only be described as massive fucking convulsions, only to be rescued by Jake. (who she totally doesn't have a thing for man, omg no way!)
Now, a camping style film wouldn't at all be complete without a scene set around a camp fire with everyone trying to fuck with each other and scare each other shitless, and this film is no different. Jake tells the story of a militantly Catholic borstal type school for boys who are...lets just say, difficult. He tells of a set of twins where one was hanged and the other forced to watch, another was left to live with the dogs and ended up becoming feral. All at the hands of someone only known as the "Black Brother". Now of course, the stories these guys are telling just so happen to be true, because "if it's true, you know it can happen to you". The school also happens to be not too far from where they're all staying.
Tara, because of the effects of eating the deadly shroom, starts experiencing visions of the moments just before her friends are killed, but hey it's just a bad trip right?
They end up having to split to go and find Bluto (Robert Hoffman; Step Up 2) who mysteriously vanished and took all the shroom tea with him...minus all his clothes. What we then see is that the night before, Tara had pulled him away from basically having an argument with a cow in the middle of the woods, but she got him back into his tent and everything seemed fine, he was just a little out of it.
Well he must have been a lot more out of it than they'd previously thought because the next day they stumble across his corpse, (well it's more a case of him stumbling on top of them) with his junk bitten off.
Yep. Dick...gone.
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| "a fuckin' cow, that can fuckin' talk" |
Slowly but surely each of the group start getting picked off one by one, the remaining few now believing that Tara is really seeing what she says she is and isn't just tripping balls. So they start utilising her new found abilities to try and find the others. Almost like a human Sat-Nav I guess.
But even with the help of Tara's crazy brain they can't stop the inevitable, and it's only a matter of time before the group is completely whittled down by an unknown killer, who they believe to be none other than the Black Brother.
I'm not gonna go into the ending really because I'd not want to give too much away just incase anyone reading this hasn't seen the film.
I'm also calling bullshit on almost everyone who says that they figured out the ending right away, unless you're Sherlock Holmes or some shit then I highly doubt it okay. Even when I watch it now, knowing the ending, I can't figure out exactly how it went down.
I do love the casting for this film also, aside from Hoffman, I'd not heard of or seen any of the other members in anything before. I always think it helps not knowing the actors, because for example I can't watch Daniel Radcliffe in anything without feeling like I'm just watching a Harry Potter spin off. But obviously it's only a matter of time before you start seeing people you know appearing in multiple things.
Like I said at the beginning, I rate this film ever so highly. 10/10, 5 stars, A+...love it. But that's probably because it's the film that got me obsessed with the genre as a whole, so I may be a little biased.
I do think it is definitely worth a watch, however. Even just to say you've seen it and end up completely slating it online, you can never have too big of a repertoire. But you never know, you might end up joining the small group of us who genuinely love this film.
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