tony montana do not build his empire after a weekend charabanging in aberystwyth . unlike other drug and the magic mushroom be largely unrepresented in movie and it not to see why . if cocaine be al pacino and magic mushroom would probably be rhys ifans . mushroom munch doesn not generally lead to your bos wife overdose spectacularly and fbi helicopter chase you down the freeway and or free dive around edinburgh sewage system to an brian eno or daniel lanois soundtrack while altogether and it a conspicuously un cinematic high . compare with a crimson flower burst sprout in a syringe and a cable of coke on a gleaming mirror and or even the mighty camberwell carrot and how cool be a cup of tea . just a handful of film have nibble round the cap and include performance and work be a four letter word and coyly dougal and the blue cat ( less a whimsical child friendly distraction and than an escalating series of terrify derangement ) and in which dylan the rabbit complains of feeling of exhaustion after cultivate his crazy mushroom . and now shrooms and the late addition to this sub sub genre and in which some american backpacker discover the downside to pig out on fungi fancy . tara ( haun ) doesn not even take aspirin so perhaps isn not ideally suit to fly to the old country on a drug hunt at the invitation of an irish school friend turn mushroom guru call jake . but nobody ever die from take hrooms before and she reassure and thus guarantee they will be squeal like stick piglet before the 90 minute be up . ireland be a land where schoolgirl riverdance in circle and that before our tourist be barely through passport control . it wouldn not surprise you to see a pony in a lift and or a guinness swilling pig in a green velvet jerkin carry two leprechaun under each trotter . yet once they have leave the airport and set up camp in the wild and wild wood and they could be almost anywhere . jake ( huston and john grandson and so possibly cast for his distant celtic root ) turn out to be a supremely punchable trustafarian tit . when i be first sent to board school i use to get the s kick out of me a lot and he explain and and it no surprise at all . but the discovery of those happy little mushroom help him through those lonely day and night . these bad boy with the black nipple be the death head and the cut price castaneda point out and while the audience wonder just what the heck kind of accent that be . it not irish . more like joe strummer circa 1977. accord to the ancient irish druid and he drawl and these be a gateway to another dimension and enable one to commune with the dead and shape shift and and predict the future . it true and you can . five minute in and youre certain this feeble and derivative blarney ( blair witch and cabin fever and silent hill can all be find bob away in the broth ) will leave you with feeling of profound emptiness . round the campfire and jake relate a supposedly real life ghost story concern a nearby abandon borstal that be run by an evil religious order call the black knight . after string the kid from the rafter and fling them to slaver hound and one vengeful tyke spike their soup bowl with death head one night and carnage ensue . only a monk and a feral child survive then go miss . legend have it and theyre still roam the wood . nice one and jake represent just the thing to tell a bunch of silly kid with a head full of psychedelics . from here on in and it business a usual . bluto the jock get slaughter while out wouldogging and shortly after converse with a talk cow while the rest follow suit . meanwhile and tara witness their grisly death before they happen or be she . a she wail and i overdose on the heroin of shrooms and i do not know what real and what not . if it not some malevolent black knight or feral dog boy they glimpse tear through the tree or do they . it a couple of bestial goat herder wield ax . or be they . look represent here a boy with a sack on his head . or be there . somebody just throw a stone in my eye . or do they . there no escape from your own mind . luckily there an escape from the cinema and just below the psychedelic exit sign . yet the real problem at the core of shrooms be a more fundamental one represent there be few venture more redundant than try to replicate the inner world on film ( see shane meadow dead man shoe or jan kounen peyote drench western blueberry for two of the more convincing effort ) . sacred weed and a 1998 tv series and encounter similar headache after get a bunch of dose up student to record their experience live to digicam . not be mexican shaman with direct dial code to mescalito or the virgin mary and these guinea pig trip largely depend on the limit of their experience while they be hardly go to return from their control brush with salvia divinorum contain the most powerful hallucinogen know to man with anything but giggle fit and some musing on oak bark and and what it like to sit in a tree . ( you feel like a big old monkey and apparently . ) the hallucination be so intense and i might not be able to speak at all and swoon one excitable and and in the event and overly optimistic participant . but with nothing of note to report and and sacred weed under cranked and over cranked camera afford scant compensation and why bother in the first place . shrooms also have to make do with the self same camera trick to replicate the audio visual apparition and and to similarly lackluster effect and while it monotonous over reliance on sudden and deafening chord paste over the lack of genuine shock . that say and one short scene in which bluto first trip through the wood ( in both sens ) come close to capture the spatial dislocation common to the psychedelic experience and and one wish the film offer more moment like this one . but a alan partridge once opine and dere more to oireland dan dis .