SHROOOOOOMS ON FILM!!!

A henpeck tries to poison his mother-in-law with toadstools.

Horace Glutz is an expert on mushrooms and toadstools. A simple dinner party with the family, and brother-in law Bertram's uninvited pool hall buddies, turns sour when the main dish of mushrooms turns out to have been toadstools - or was it?

Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.

The story is about the dangers of staying outdoors during a storm warning.

Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.

This experimental silent short is very rare (filmed in 8mm) and only lasts 11 minutes. Nigel Gordon, film student, filmed Syd Barrett while he tripped on mushrooms. This film is made up of two parts. Part 1: Syd tripping at Gog Magog Hills. Part 2: April '67, Pink Floyd right after they signed their first recording contract, with EMI Records at Abbey Road Studios.

Expecting a nuclear disaster in 1962 Conner moved to Mexico where he spent time in search of mushrooms.

A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professional career. He is befriended by an older female artist who is fond of hallucinogenic mushrooms. When his wife is late for their anniversary celebration, he drinks and takes mushrooms with the artist. He wakes up to find she has died and is fearful he may have accidentally killed her.

The tale about pease Romeo and mushroom Juliet.

In colonial Mexico, a wealthy plantation owner forces his slaves to taste some-times poisonous mushrooms, which are used in a family recipe and served at lavish parties.

A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.

A boy meets a friendly forest creature named Yia Yia who appears to be related to the Ginseng King.

A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter and used to cure an actress.

Animated first feature by Gary Reynard, who wrote, directed, drew and designed the film. His protagonist, a blond wanderer who is dying in what seems to be the desert, eats what he thinks are poisoned mushrooms to end his misery. But they revive him instead and lead him to a series of adventures. The animation is simple, resembling children's drawings. The music is by Mills College music Professor Maggi Payne.

How drugs have influenced artistic production in the course of the last 200 years, focusing on major European and American literary figures and visual artists.

A young woman is seduced by a Russian mushroom picker with voracious appetites.

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and mayhem at the hands of two charming old ladies.

Based on a famous short story by Pushkin, this film tells of a youthful, innocent and pure love story that begins as a girlish joke. Liza is eager to get to know her young neighbour but cannot do so as their fathers are not on speaking terms. Her response is simple and direct. With the help of her loyal servant Nastia, she dresses up as a peasant girl and goes pick mushrooms in the nearby woods....

Multi award winning (Australian made) guerrilla independent documentary. First Broadcast on SBS (Australia) 8:30pm 20 October 1995. It undertakes a highly entertaining tongue-in-cheek investigation into the impact of the sudden discovery of Magic Mushrooms growing in an 'Enchanted Forest', near the tiny rural town of Balingup, in south-West Australia. Pop 397. The Aztecs and many other ancient peoples used Magic Mushrooms in the worship of their deities. Vikings went berserk after eating them. Hippies across the planet have been using this 'forbidden fruit' for years. Meet the 'Shroomers, The Police, The local Balingup residents: Angry, nervous, and sometimes supportive; the medical professionals and a Mycologist (biologist specializing in the study of Fungi) who studied alongside Sir David Attenborough (literally)at Cambridge University. This film leads us far beyond the picturesque vistas of Balingup and into the international politics of the so-called 'War On Drugs'. * Broadcast on free to air TV in Australia, plus free to air (and cable) TV in Indonesia, Israel, France, and England from 1996 through to the present. Fact Is Often Stranger Than Fiction...

Bruce Conner reconstructs his own film Looking for Mushrooms (1962) by expanding each frame five times in length and adding footage of similar mushroom hunts he did in Frisco.

A couple, trying to get the last ferry to their island, help a young drifter out of the rain with a ride. They later meet him again and invite him home. The much younger wife spends time with the drifter. Twists follow.

A old red riding hood, badly crippled after killing a monster many years ago, comes up with a sinister plan to dance again.