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Mushroom monsters attack in Ishiro Honda's creepy "Matango" (1963), aka "Attack of the Mushroom People."Related content
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This film recently became one of my favorites!!!
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It's very creepy and effective, isn't it?
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Yes it is! Β
One thing struck me, as I started watching it:
"Okay, we have seven people on a pleasure cruise--a rich man, an actress, a professor...and they get shipwrecked...wait a minute..."
Did this movie indirectly inspire a Tv series?
youtu.be/yfSLuEj99d0
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You're not the first one to make that connection
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It's one of my favorite Japanese fantasy films 
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Not to mention the Matango got the same creepy laugh as the Baltans
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Bad movie? Bite your tongue! It's more Lord of the Flies! The castaways are far more of a danger to themselves than the Mushroom mutants.Β It's amazing how quick the shipwrecked party turned on themselves. And this might have happened whetherΒ the Fungus freaks were there or not.Β All the mushroom mutants seemed to do was sit in their grotto and tell knock-knock jokes, to pass the time.
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"Hello, could we interest you in a copy of the Mushroom watchtower? What has Mushroom-Jesus done in your life lately?"
Noooo0000ooooooo!
Happens on every forbidden island....
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That's why I never go to forbidden islands.
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Yep, the hotel service sucks.
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Love Mantango and "A Voice in the Night." I bought a pretty cool mini Mantango resin figure from the toy maker Gorgoloid.
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Is that those insanely colorful toy figures?
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There were those large 5 inch Japanese figures, but this was just a 2 inch solid resin figure handmade by Gorgoloid. Back in the day, there were Mantangos on trikes. Pretty weird and fun.
www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&β¦
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I've seen the trike-riding version. Pretty strange concept
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Toho did "The Last of Us" before it was cool.
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love this movie, and on of my Mom's faves. Its mostly her fault I love bad monster movies.
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Mom was a good parent, apparently
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yes, she sure was.Β Hope they get Svenghoolie in Heaven.Β
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Have you notices just how often the movies title themselves "The Attack of..." when the poor creatures are actually desperately defending themselves?
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True, though I think these monsters are pretty much attacking, though they are doing so in a very subtle way. The people turn into monsters.
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In other words, the people's real nature shows.
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What I said when I first saw this movie
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(been trying to get a copy of it for years...)
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It's out on a triple-bill DVD with some other Japanese monster flicks, but I can't recall which ones right now. I saw it on Amazon a while ago.
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hopefully I'll find a copy when my situation improves.
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Yes! What an atmospheric and creepy film with the Mushroom people being more respectable than the humans..the mushroom zombies on the ship reminded me a little of Fulci's in how they stalked.
When Toho wanted to get creepy they really did a great job (like The H-Man).
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Yep; it's beautifully shot and paced. The mushroom zombies are of course more effective than the full-blown mushroom monsters, but all the effects and visuals in this one is really good, including the sets.
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Literally its like a shroom induced nightmare with their laughter (I remember them using that laughter later for alien monsters in UltraQ/Ultraman).
Kumi Mizuno as unsympathetic character! She is still gorgeous!
Also the fungus covered rooms were unsettling..Β
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I think it's the laugh of Ultraman fave Baltan.
The whole darn film is very creepy! And the performances of the actors are pitch perfect, especially in those tense scenes on board the derelict.
Are you familliar with the William Hope Hodgson short story "The Voice In the Night" on which this film is allegedly based?
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I used to own a hardcover book titled 'Science Fiction by Gaslight' that had that story in it. Great creepy piece of work.
Many of the other stories were just as amazing, especially the utterly deranged 'Monster of Lake LaMetrie', which really needs to be turned into a movie. I mean, a guy who removes his best friend's brain after he commits suicide and sticks it in the noggin of an elasmosaurus after he chopped the top of its head off, which leads to an angry human mind in a giant dinosaur? How did the 50's movie makers miss that one?
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Did the book also have "The Purple Terror" (or maybe it's "Horror") about man-eating vines?
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Yes, that was in there. As well as a story about London being devastated by a massive volcanic rift eruption.
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I have a William Hope Hodgson book but its on my pile..
In a way its like an evil japanese Gilligan's island!!
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My first thought when seeing the way people were dressed was Gilligan's Island too
Here's an audiobook version of "The Voice In the Night":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb9Uwxβ¦
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remember that Swamp Thing storyline? Β man what a lost venture
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Swamp Thing met the mushroom people?
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Swamp Thing had a villain, a god of another primal realm that was named Matango, the Keeper of the Fungus
conceptually i think the story was very rich, but it was drawn as if quickly
still the covers were done by someone masterful and i suggest you try to see them
they were the issues slightly following number 100 from the 1980s series
the storyline was titled "Quest for the Elementals", writer was Doug Wheeler, inside illustrator was Mike Hoffman, cover artist's name i've forgotten
do an image search on a major engine
Matango the character-in Swamp Thing-was begun by Stephen Bissette who was penciller during the Alan Moore reign
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