10 Horror Movie Twists That Made No Sense

Irish director Paddy Breathnach almost broke into the Hollywood mainstream via his charismatic comedy caper Man About Dog in 2004, a parochial comedy which fused local humour with the pacy thrills of a Guy Ritchie flick. Then he made Shrooms.

Following a group of insufferable students as they head to rural Ireland to trip on the titular magic mushrooms, the film could have been a fairly standard teen horror if it weren’t for the unbelievably dumb turn taken by its closing reels.

Yes, in time-honoured tradition, the film reveals that the hooded menace behind the film’s killings is not a demonic monk or any paranormal threat at all, but rather our very heroine, who’s so out of it on the eponymous psychedelic that she doesn’t remember slaughtering her mates.

What she does remember, however, is a series of elaborate set pieces in which her fellow travellers are murdered by a lank-haired ghostly figure plucked straight out of the then-waning J horror craze. So is our heroine just inventing these scenes to justify her delusions?

If so, how did she actually kill her friends? And why did her mushroom-addled mind feel the need to conjure up such specifically slasher-movie style demises for each of them?