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''Matango'', AKA ''Matango: the Mushroom People'', ''Attack of the Mushroom People'', ''Curse of the Mushroom People'', ''The Voice in the Night'', ''Zombi 14: The Mushroom People'', ''Fungus of Terror'', ''Matango the Fungus of Terror'', ''Matango: Fungus of Terror'', etc. (1963)

==Summary==
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"Attack of the Mushroom People!" A man in a padded cell tells a tale of being shipwrecked on a foggy island with toadstool-eating tourists.

==Details==

* Release Date:  1963
* Country/Language:  Japan, Japanese (with English dubbing or subtitles)
* Genres/Technical:  Horror, Mystery, Drama
* Setting:  [[1960s]] Pacific Ocean
* Runtime:  1 hr 29 min
* Starring:  Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi
* Director:  Ishirô Honda
* Writer:  Takeshi Kimura (screenplay), Masami Fukushima and Shinichi Hoshi (adaptation), [[William Hope Hodgson]] (story)
* Producer/Production Co:  Toho Company
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyRYjJoZfc link])

==Ratings==
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* Rated:  (not rated) (perhaps equivalent of PG for mild Violence and very mild Adult Content)

===Tentacle Ratings===
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* SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)

In addition to being based on a Weird story by an author admired by Lovecraft ([[William Hope Hodgson]]), this is a tale about walking-and-talking fungi also features some unsettling body horror, as told by an unreliable narrator patient in a mental hospital....

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==Synopsis==
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Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms. 
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==Notes==

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===Associated Mythos Elements===
* fiction:  [[William Hope Hodgson]]'s "The Voice in the Night"
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===Keeper Notes===
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