Last year we had Shroom, a mushroom movie set in Ireland and shot in parts of Derry, Armagh and Monaghan.
Not having seen it yet Stalker cannot comment, but the critics panned the show, giving it a single star out of five. Recently though Mamma Mia! received the same rating by some critics, but the movie going public seem to love it. So you never know.
This year's mushroom related movie is - have you heard of it yet? - Puffball. With a title like that, the imagery that it conjures up is multivalent, steeped in perhaps many genres.
Once again the movie seems to involve magic mushrooms and paganistic rituals and even a little bit of hanky panky.
Stalker is keen to see this one! Not for the hanky panky of course, but for loftier filmic reasons. The movie is by the legendary film director Nicolas Roeg - he's made such classics as Don't Look Now, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Performance. Roeg says of his new movie " Puffball isn't a horror film, or a thriller. There’s a love story, but it's not a romance."
This movie has managed to receive just the solitary one star rating as well - however one should never let the critics make your mind up for you.
And there's an Irish connection too, it's set in Ireland, and set amongst the farming community.
Who knows, this one could be a winner ( although Stalker wouldn’t bank on it).
It's based on a novel by Fay Weldon and the PR blurb pitches it as a cross between Rosemary's Baby and Hammer House of Horror.
"Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect (Kelly Reilly) becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house. And when the neighbouring farmers take against the unborn child, it's her very survival that is threatened."
Readers can email reviews if they get a chance to see it - but don't blame Stalker if it's a stinkhorn instead of a lovely creamy puffball.
