Jungle Films (genre) - Revision history

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‎Associated Mythos Elements

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 * setting: [[Lost Continent]] ([[Mu]], [[Lemuria]], [[Atlantis]], etc.)
 * setting: [[Prehistoric Earth]]
 * race/cult: [[Tcho-Tcho]]s (typically with unfortunate implications)
 * cult: ("Hollywood Voodoo") Voodoo/Juju cults (typically with unfortunate implications)
 * race: [[Frazetta Man]]
 * race: [[Zombie#Voodoo Zombie|Zombie]]s
-* location: generic lost city
+* race: [[Fungus, Vile]]
-* location: generic jungle
+* race: [[Triffid]]
+* race: [[Body Snatchers]]
 ===Keeper Notes===

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 ==Details==
 <!-- Provide optional settings and/or campaigns relatable to the genre, and an optional link to a TVTropes page for the genre (chances are, TVTropes has already dissected the themes and devices common to the genre.) -->
-* Settings:  [[Delta Green]], [[Pulp Cthulhu (setting)]], [[Old Solar System]] [[Venus]]
+* Settings:  [[Delta Green]], [[Pulp Cthulhu]], [[Old Solar System]] [[Venus]]
 * Campaigns:
 * TVTropes: ([http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropesOfTheJungle link])
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 [[Delta Green]] scenarios (especially those set in the 1960s and 1970s) seem like a natural fit for the jungles of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
-The [[Pulp Cthulhu (setting)]] can suggest many possibilities for two-fisted adventure in the style of the Indiana Jones films.
+The [[Pulp Cthulhu]] can suggest many possibilities for two-fisted adventure in the style of the Indiana Jones films.
 From a more traditional science fiction angle, "[[Old Solar System]]" alternate-history space exploration (perhaps using [[Cthulhu Icarus]] as an inspiration) may find explorers exploring or surviving a hellish [[Venus]]ian jungle, as seen in "[[In the Walls of Eryx (fiction)]]".
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 * setting: [[Delta Green]]
-* setting: [[Pulp Cthulhu (setting)]]
+* setting: [[Pulp Cthulhu]]
 * setting: [[Old Solar System]] [[Venus]]  ([[Cthulhu Icarus]])
 * setting: [[Pellucidar]], [[Hollow Earth]]

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 ==Details==
 <!-- Provide optional settings and/or campaigns relatable to the genre, and an optional link to a TVTropes page for the genre (chances are, TVTropes has already dissected the themes and devices common to the genre.) -->
-* Settings:  [[Delta Green]], [[Pulp Cthulhu]], [[Old Solar System]] [[Venus]]
+* Settings:  [[Delta Green]], [[Pulp Cthulhu (setting)]], [[Old Solar System]] [[Venus]]
 * Campaigns:
 * TVTropes: ([http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropesOfTheJungle link])
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 [[Delta Green]] scenarios (especially those set in the 1960s and 1970s) seem like a natural fit for the jungles of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
-The [[Pulp Cthulhu]] setting can suggest many possibilities for two-fisted adventure in the style of the Indiana Jones films.
+The [[Pulp Cthulhu (setting)]] can suggest many possibilities for two-fisted adventure in the style of the Indiana Jones films.
 From a more traditional science fiction angle, "[[Old Solar System]]" alternate-history space exploration (perhaps using [[Cthulhu Icarus]] as an inspiration) may find explorers exploring or surviving a hellish [[Venus]]ian jungle, as seen in "[[In the Walls of Eryx (fiction)]]".
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 * setting: [[Delta Green]]
-* setting: [[Pulp Cthulhu]]
+* setting: [[Pulp Cthulhu (setting)]]
 * setting: [[Old Solar System]] [[Venus]]  ([[Cthulhu Icarus]])
 * setting: [[Pellucidar]], [[Hollow Earth]]

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 * ''Monster from Green Hell (1957 film)'' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050723/ IMDB]) ([ Watch]) - A scientific expedition in Africa investigates wasps that have been exposed to radiation and mutated into giant, killing monsters.
 * ''From Hell It Came (1957 film)'' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050414/ IMDB]) ([ Watch]) - A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump.
 * ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer (1959 film)]]'' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053318/?ref_=ttexrv_exrv_tt IMDB]) - By [[Tennessee Williams]] and Gore Vidal, with Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift.  The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
 * ''Bloodlust! (1961 film)'' ([ IMDB]) ([ Watch]) -  By [[Richard Connell]], "The Most Dangerous Game".  In Central America, an action-adventure novelist and a journalist for a magazine find themselves at the mercy of Nazi war criminals.
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 * The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol. (''Omoo-Omoo the Shark God'')
 * A shipwreck traps a doomed party on a foggy tropical island where the passengers become infested with fungal body horror after eating the island's monstrous mushrooms.  ''[[Matango: The Mushroom People (1963 film)]]''
 * An animal trainer and his press agent find marooned people and a buried city.  (''Lost Jungle'')
 * An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic. (''Drums of Africa'' AKA ''Jungle Man'')

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 * ''African Queen (1951 film)'' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/ IMDB]) ([ Watch]) - With Humphry Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, directed by John Huston.  In Africa during World War I, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
 * ''Wild Women (1951 film)'' (AKA ''Bowanga, Bowanga: White Sirens of Africa'', ''White Sirens of Africa'', ''Bowanga Bowanga'', ''Untamed Women'', ) ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046550/ IMDB]) ([https://youtu.be/34pOL177n2g Watch]) A small safari in Africa is captured by a tribe of white jungle women. (Reviews:  [https://thevideovacuum.livejournal.com/1259173.html Mitch Lovell] (1.5 Stars), [http://homepages.sover.net/~ozus/wildwomen.html Dennis Schwartz] (B-), [http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/a-d/bowanga.htm Casey Scott], [http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=47125 Dan Stumpf])
-* ''King of the Congo (1952 film)'' - (starring [[Buster Crabbe]] Jungle Man Thun'da, a U.S. Airforce Captain shot down over Africa and rescued by a peaceful jungle people, searches for microfilm, fends off attacks from rival Cave Men, foils plots by plunderers searching for a dangerous radioactive metal, and has other jungle adventures....
+* ''King of the Congo (1952 film)'' - (starring [[Buster Crabbe]]) Jungle Man Thun'da, a U.S. Air Force Captain shot down over Africa and rescued by a peaceful jungle people, searches for microfilm, fends off attacks from rival Cave Men, foils plots by plunderers searching for a dangerous radioactive metal, and has other jungle adventures....
 * ''Jungle Drums of Africa (1953 film)'' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045945/ IMDB]) ([ Watch]) - The daughter of a medical missionary in Africa carries on her father's work after he dies. She befriends two adventurers prospecting for uranium, and before long she finds herself in danger from crooks trying to get the uranium for themselves and a local witch doctor who sees her as a threat to his power.
 * ''Secret of the Incas (1954 film)'' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047464/ IMDB]) ([ Watch]) - With Charlton Heston.  An adventurer searchers for hidden treasure in the Peruvian jungle.  (Film considered an inspiration for ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 film)]]''.)

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 * The investigators are hired to find out what happened to a missing scientist and his expedition by exploring their decaying makeshift laboratory and the surrounding jungle.  When darkness arrives, the party begins to discover evidence of the scientist's occult interests in his feverish and ranting notebooks, and hear strange voices in the dark and discover that objects in the laboratory seem to move by themselves; the party soon realize that the laboratory, built on an ancient vine-choked ruin, hides a terrible secret to the scientist's disappearance....  ([[The Haunting (aka The Haunted House) (Scenario)|The Haunting (scenario)]])
 * A scientific expedition in Africa investigates wasps that have been exposed to radiation and mutated into giant, killing monsters. (''Monster from Green Hell'')
 * A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a terrifying vegetable horror of the jungle.  (''From Hell It Came'')
 * The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol. (''Omoo-Omoo the Shark God'')
 * An animal trainer and his press agent find marooned people and a buried city.  (''Lost Jungle'')
 * An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic. (''Drums of Africa'' AKA ''Jungle Man'')

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 * ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer (1959 film)]]'' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053318/?ref_=ttexrv_exrv_tt IMDB]) - By [[Tennessee Williams]] and Gore Vidal, with Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift.  The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
 * ''Bloodlust! (1961 film)'' ([ IMDB]) ([ Watch]) -  By [[Richard Connell]], "The Most Dangerous Game".  In Central America, an action-adventure novelist and a journalist for a magazine find themselves at the mercy of Nazi war criminals.
-* ''Matango: The Mushroom People (1963 film)'' - A man in a padded cell tells a tale of being shipwrecked on a foggy tropical island with toadstool-eating tourists.
+* ''[[Matango: The Mushroom People (1963 film)]]'' - A man in a padded cell tells a tale of being shipwrecked on a foggy tropical island with toadstool-eating tourists.
 * ''King Kong (1976 film)'' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074751/ IMDB]) - A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
 * ''Apocalypse Now (1979 film)'' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/ IMDB]) - By Joseph Conrad ("Heart of Darkness", uncredited), dir. Francis Ford Coppala, with Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando.  During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.