Shrooms (2006)

Country of Origin: Ireland / UK
Year of Production: 2006
Running Times: 86 mins
Length:
Format: Super 16mm / Super 35mm
Colour Format: colour
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Capitol Films  Ingenious Film Partners present in association with Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board / Nordisk Film A/S Film Production and the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission
Co-Produced by Nepenthe Film
A film by Paddy Breathnach
A Treasure Entertainment / Potboiler production
NIFTC Head of Production: Andrew Reid
Executive Producers: James Clayton, Duncan Reid, Kim Magnusson, Gail Egan, Simon Channing-Williams
Produced by: Robert Walpole, Paddy McDonald
Co-Producers: Nina Lyng, Eva Juel Hammerich
Associate Producers: Rebecca O'Flanagan, Katie Holly
Production Manager: Carol Moorhead
Pick-Ups Production Manager: Clare Kavanagh
Production Coordinator: Cathy Mooney
Assistant Production Coordinator: Michelle Carew

SCRIPT
Written by: Pearse Elliott
Script Consultant: Nic Ransome

DIRECTION
Directed by: Paddy Breathnach
1st Assistant Director: Andrew Hegarty
2nd Assistant Director: Alex Jones
3rd Assistant Director: Jonathan Shaw
Trainee Assistant Directors: Keith Barry, Rory Shaw
Additional Trainee Assistant Director: Denis Fitzpatrick
Script Supervisor: Kathleen Weir

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Nanu Segal
Steadi-Cam Operator: Roger Tooley
Additional Steadi-Cam Operator: Paul Edwards
Underwater Photography: Mark Maidment
Focus Pullers: Dave Wyatt, Mark Maidment, Conor Hammond, Eric Greenberg, John Bailie, Kurt Savage
Clapper Loaders: Andrew O'Reilly, Andy Gardner, Mark Byrne
Camera Trainee: Rory O'Riordan
Camera Grip: John Dunne
Trainee Grip: Eoin Reilly
Gaffer: Warren Ewen
Best Boy: Pat Ryder
Electricians: Tim Fletcher, Richard Nevin, Liam Moran, Steven Carthy, Mike Mooney, Dermot Coleman, Carlo McDonnell
Generator Operator: Martin Holland
Rigger: Gary Donoghue
Still Photographer: Liam Daniel
Video Assist: Melissa Kenny
Lighting: ARRI Lighting Rental Limited
Camera Equipment Provided By: Production Depot

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Edited by: Dermot Diskin
Assistant Editor: David O'Brien
Post-Production Supervisor: Clare Kavanagh

MUSIC
Music by: Dario Marianelli
Music Coordinator: Maggie Rodford
Music Editor: Christopher Benstead

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Simon Willis
Additional Sound: Jim Corcoran
Boom Operator: Andrew Felton
Additional Boom Operator: Pat Doyle
Sound Trainee: Kevin Lawler
Additional Sound Trainee: Richard Fleming
Sound Re-Recording Mixers: Peter Blayney, Tom Johnson
Dialogue Editor: Fionn Higgins
Foley Recording Mixer: Don White
Foley Editor: Brendan Geaney
Sound Post-Production: Ardmore Sound
Additional Protools Systems Supplied By: Gearbox Sound and Vision

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Rosie Hackett

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Effects Makeup Designer: Cliff Wallace
Special Makeup Effects: Simon Rose

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Team FX Ltd.
Special Effects Supervisor: Kevin Byrne

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Alexander Marthin
Digital Effects Artist: Michael Holm
Digital Compositors: Patrick O'Casey, Peter Hartwig
Digital Effects Consultant: John Kennedy

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mark Geraghty
Art Director: David Wilson
Assistant Art Director: Rory Bruen
Production Buyer: Keavy Lalor
Property Master: Dave Peters
Dressing Props: Seamus Kelly, Keith Cullen
Stannd-by Props: Dermot Blighe
Trainee Stand-by Props: Ross Swetak
Art Department Trainee: Aine Smith

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Accountant: Rory MacDermott
Assistant Accountant: Fionnuala Dorney
Post-Production Accountant: Billi Webster
Production Assistant: Mike Hayes
Assistant to the Producer: Sarah Power
Transportation: Michael Phelan

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Clodagh Tierney
Assistant Location Manager: Brendan O'Sullivan
Location Scouting: Miriam Coleman
Locations Assistant: Dearbháile O'Hanlon
Locations Trainee: Karl Daly
Location Services: Shoot NI

STUNTS
Stunts: Niamh Connell, Ken Doherty, Samantha Heaney, Paul Valentine
Stunt Rigger: Paul Burke

CASTING
Casting: Kelly Martin Wagner, Natasha Cuba
Casting Director - Ireland: Rebecca Roper
Casting Director - Prague: Victoria Flidr
Casting Directors - UK: Rosalie Clayton, Sinead MacManus
Casting Assistants - LA: Joanne Bloom, Dominica Posseren
Casting Interns: Chuck Dukas, Chris Gehrt

CAST
Lindsey Haun (Tara)
Jack Huston (Jake)
Max Kasch (Troy)
Maya Hazen (Lisa)
Alice Greczyn (Holly)

and
Robert Hoffman (Bluto)

Don Wycherley (Ernie)
Sean McGinley (Bernie)

Toby Sedgwick (Black Brother)
Andre Pollack (The Dog)
Jack Gleeson (lonely twin)
Mike Carbery (paramedic)

Anna Tikhonova (mysterious woman 1)
Goranna McDonald (mysterious woman 2)
Jake Allen (lonely twin double)
Berry Murphy (lonely twin's brother)
Joe Murphy (feral boy)
Joe Phelan (young lonely twin)
Peter McMahon (Black Brother double)
Thomas Creighton (Bluto double)

PLOT SUMMARY

A group of American teenagers on holiday in Ireland experiment with magic mushrooms. But the hallucinations they experience make them targets for ghostly creatures.

AVAILABILITY

Germany
Theatrical Distributors: Ascot Elite Entertainment Group

Sweden
Theatrical Distributors: Atlantic Film

Taiwan
Theatrical Distributors: Long Shong Entertainment Multimedia Company

UK
Theatrical Distributors: Vertigo Films

TIMELINE

2007
February
10: Germany - shiown at the European Film Market

September
14: Spain - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

Get Ready to Get Wasted

KEYWORDS

drugs, ghosts, hallucinations, magic mushrooms, teenagers

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008