Recently, I remembered an old movie called Attack Of The Mushroom People aka Matango...
After a yacht is damaged in a storm and it’s boarders stranded on a deserted island, the passengers; a psychologist and his girlfriend, a wealthy businessman, a famous singer, a writer, a sailor and his skipper take refuge in a mysterious fungus-covered boat. While using the mushrooms for sustenance they find in the ship's journal that the mushrooms are poisonous, however some members of the shipwrecked party continue to ingest the mysterious fungi transforming them into hideous fungal monsters. One of the strangest and most horrific TOHO productions to date.
Over the weekend, I was suddenly and shockingly reminded of Attack Of The Mushroom People, an old movie that I saw many years ago. According to Amazon, it was available of DVD a few years ago, but, now it appears to be out of print... Actually, despite the fact that Matango is supposedly out of print, I ordered it from one of my favorite online anime retailers and it just arrived...
After a yacht is damaged in a storm and it’s boarders stranded on a deserted island, the passengers; a psychologist and his girlfriend, a wealthy businessman, a famous singer, a writer, a sailor and his skipper take refuge in a mysterious fungus-covered boat. While using the mushrooms for sustenance they find in the ship's journal that the mushrooms are poisonous, however some members of the shipwrecked party continue to ingest the mysterious fungi transforming them into hideous fungal monsters. One of the strangest and most horrific TOHO productions to date.
