- Awesome Moments: The climax has several.
- Whitehead conjuring a great wind to blow O'Neill's tent away after eating a ton of magic mushrooms.
- Jacob and O'Neill trading fire, with O'Neill getting his leg blown off and Jacob getting shot in the lung.
- Friend making a Heroic Sacrifice by charging at O'Neill with a pike, leading to him getting shot. This leaves Whitehead safe to walk right up to O'Neill and literally blow his face off.
"The coward is here." *BLAM* - Awesome Music: The instrumental mandolin song that plays as O'Neill leads the men to his camp.
- Evil Is Cool: O'Neill is an intelligent, intimidating villain with a badass Irish accent.
- Genius Bonus:
- Whitehead is almost certainly named after the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who was a huge influence on the work of Terrence McKenna, "the Timothy Leary of the 90's," who did a lot of research with psychedelics, specifically mushrooms, alchemical history, and the relationship between the two.
- Some of the more elaborate Mind Screw moments make more sense (well, for whatever sense is reliable in this movie) if one connects them to English folklore and alchemy, such as the part where Whitehead's group finds O'Neill by pulling a log out of the ground with a rope. Another piece of folklore that may shed more light on the story is about how going through a hedgerow (like the one all of the characters go through at the start of the film) can lead one to a completely different world.
- Heartwarming Moments: There’s no doubt Jacob, Friend and Whitehead really are Fire-Forged Friends by the end of the movie.
Jacob: I’ve come back to rescue you, you great dunderhead!
Whitehead: No friend. It is I who will rescue you.
Whitehead: No friend. It is I who will rescue you.
- Narm: The extreme closeup shot of Whitehead stuffing mushrooms into mouth in what is otherwise a Moment of Awesome for the character.
- Nightmare Fuel: The torture scene. We don't actually see what O'Neill is doing to Whitehead inside the tent, but we do hear his awful, agonized screams. When he finally emerges, he has a delirious grin on his face and is led around the field to serve as a human divining rod.
- Tear Jerker: Friend's first death, and Jacob's tearful reaction to it.
