by Hal Erickson
synopsis
The Japanese Attack of the Mushroom People has also been released under several other cognomens: Matango, Curse of the Mushroom People, and our personal favorite, Fungus of Terror. Related in flashback, the film concerns a group of unfortunate vacationers who end up on a mysterious uncharted island. Suffering from hunger pangs, the party begins ingesting what look like mushrooms, but are actually toadstools. By and by, the people turn into giant toadstools themselves-and then there's hell to pay. Since this story is related by an inmate in a lunatic asylum, everybody laughs it off....until.....
characteristics
- Mushroom
- Mutant
- Mutation
- Transformation
- Shipwreck
- Monster
- Stranded
- Witness
- Survivor
- Survival
- Marooned
- Mad
- Escape
- Disorientation
- Dementia
