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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Mikko Kuusto: > > > The scientists who discovered > > the fungus say it has potential as an alternative foodstuff -- > > as long as the word "fungus" doesn't appear on its label. > > Everyone that has seen anu movies knows what will happen, > when people start messing with science and fungi... > > - - - > Mikko > well, usually it's when they mess with atomic bomb tests (Them!), cancer cells (Island of Terror), or high technology medicine (They Saved Hitler's Brain). the only fungus sci fi movie I can think of is Attack of the Mushroom People. in terms of crap special effects, it's right up there with Invasion of the Star Creatures. but in terms of sheer horror potential, it definitely creates much more dread than Attack of the Killer Tomatos. I mean, which is a more fiendishly horrible concept ? A fruit that thinks it's a vegetable and has poisonous vines ? Or weird grey brown shit that grows between your toes and survives high radiation and tumbles out of space in cheesy Soviet space stations and turns into slime molds that weigh 40 kilos and chug along thru the forest eating everything in their path ? Attack of the Mushroom People Japanese title: Matango details: http://www.fjmovie.com/horror/t3/44.html review: http://www.teleport-city.com/movies/reviews/scifi/mushroom.html there's a lot going on here, even if it's not all executed well. What we have here are a group of very modern Japanese people who are stranded on a tropical island, possibly the one inhabited by Mothra. None of them want to work very hard to sur- vive. They are constantly fighting with each other. And when things go bad, they start eating those wicked mushrooms that turn people into spaced out killers. So while I watched this film, I was a bit bored by it all. But when I sat down afterward to think about it, I started to realize, despite the goofy title, how cool it really was. It's sort of like Night of the Living Dead, only with mutated fungus men instead of zombies. If only the people had worked together, they probably could have survived and gotten back to civilization. But because they were more interested in bickering, making power plays, and taking advantage of one another, they were doomed from the start. Yes, the more Matango was on my mind, the more I liked the film. So just because you don't want any Matango on your pizza, don't let it scare you away from what turned out to be a surprisingly intelligent, engrossing sci-fi film with a powerful message about man's ability to destroy everything around him and take no responsibility. If that doesn't do it for you, well then, you get to watch people eat shrooms, space out, and shoot each other while monsters with toadstools on their faces look on. Oh yeah, it doesn't hurt that Kumi Mizuno, the woman that enchanted me and Nick Adams alike, stars in the film. I could pretty much watch her do anything, even space out on mushrooms and become a pawn of... Matango, the fungus of terror! [ Kumi Mizuno was HOT. Films: Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1966) Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster (1966) War of the Gargantuas (1966) Frankenstein Conquers the World (1966) Monster Zero (1966) Gorath (1963) The Lost World of Sinbad (1962) f
