Waiting for this guy to make an appearance in The Last Of Us.
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Matango (マタンゴ Matango) is a 1963 tokusatsu horror film directed by Ishiro Honda and written by Takeshi Kimura from a story by Shinichi Hoshi and Masami Fukushima, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced by Toho, it is a loose adaptation of the 1907 short story "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson. It stars Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, and Miki Yashiro. The film was released to Japanese theaters by Toho on August 11, 1963. American International Television released an English-dubbed version of the film to American television syndication in 1965 under the title Attack of the Mushroom People.
Matango follows a group of seven wealthy friends from Tokyo whose yacht is caught in a storm and wrecked on a seemingly uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain. After examining another derelict ship on the island, they learn that its crewmembers were investigating the effects of nuclear testing on the island and gradually vanished after consuming the bizarre native mushrooms growing on the island which they called "Matango." With food and resources becoming more and more scarce, the survivors turn against each other and one-by-one fall under the influence of the Matango, which they find is slowly mutating those who eat it into grotesque fungal creatures.
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Where as most myconid grow naturally from damp soil laced with spores in the underdark, in certain remote areas, a new type of Myconid has been discovered; the Myconid Matango tender.
Usually native to remote islands and other distant areas, Myconid Matango tenders grow Matango, an usually edible mushroom which can resolve hunger in humanoids and leaves them in a euphoric state which renders them placid and harmless towards the Myconid. In addition, prolonged consumption of this fungi eventually turns humanoids into Myconid themselves.
Myconid Matango tenders are no more aggressive than other Myconids, and work and fit into the myconid communities much the same as their peers. They are also not actively malicious in dealing with outsiders, often providing them the Matango as food (Since their island foods rarely have other viable foodstuffs) and hoping they will join their community. Naturally, not everyone is keen on turning into a Mushroom, but if they refuse the Myconid does not force the issue.
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Rotoscoped Matango footage from Richard Linklater's Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood.
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Matango (1963) - Trailer
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Also known as "Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People"
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Attack of the Mushroom People
Matango (Adult) a.k.a. Mushroom People
Motivation: Enjoy Nutrients
Critter Type: Atomic Mutant
Attributes: Str 6, Dex 2, Con 4, Int 2, Per 3, Will 2
Ability Scores: Muscle 18, Combat 12, Brains 10,
Life Points: 50
Drama Points: 0-4
Special Abilities: +6 (Act like an immobile fungus), Natural Toughness, Armor Value 4, Reduced Damage (1/5 Kinetic), Weakness (x2 Fire damage), Hallucinogenic Construct, Hive Mind
Name - Score - Damage - Notes
Punch - 12 - 14 - Bash
Matango is a strange fungus native to the island. Full of hallucinogenic and addictive chemicals, some have claimed that consuming to much of the substance will transform one into a man-like adult Matango. However, there are no documented reports of this occurring and can be chalked up to the hallucinogen present in the fungus. In their juvenile states, they resemble ordinary mushrooms. It is not until they reach their mature size do they gain the ability to strike back at herbivores and move to find the best places to grow.
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MATANGO aka Attack of the Mushroom People has a reputation for being one of the worst horror movies. I think that’s because a full hour of the movie is people on a crashed boat bickering about whose turn it is to get potatoes and shit. The mushroom island and monsters and mutants are cool, it’s not their fault.
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Matango (1963)
Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei’s yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there…
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"Matango: Attack Of The Mushroom People" [1963]
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MATANGO aka ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE
While the HBO Max series The Last of Us may be the big thing right now, it’s important to remember that Toho did “fungus zombies” first with Matango, aka Attack of the Mushroom People (1963).
And not only did Toho do it first, they did it best because Matango features screen goddess Kumi Mizuno!
As Einstein and Hawking pointed out numerous times, the one constant in the universe besides the speed of light is that Kumi Mizuno makes everything better!
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I think it’s inherently a little ridiculous to insist that certain topics are too uncomfortable for horror, which is famously the Genre That Makes You Uncomfortable. I also think there exists for each individual a list of concepts that make them uncomfortable in a thought-provoking and even disquietingly reflective way as well as a list of concepts that make them uncomfortable in a skin-crawling throat-itching sick-to-stomach i-can’t-handle-this way. so to this end I think it is a little bit more than a little ridiculous to insist on one universal list of acceptable and unacceptable categories of Personal Uncomfort. and this is why I will always be a staunch advocate for and (as best I can) diligent provider of content warnings
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I know @istadris proooobably meant Mr. L masks his true character under a mean, tough guy act to protect himself from further pain in their Missing Half AU buuuut.
I can't quite separate Mr. L from his iconic mask.
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