Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People

Matango, also known as Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People, is a Japanese feature film of the horror genre, with some elements of science fiction. It was directed by Ishirô Honda with a screenplay written by Takeshi Kimura. It was adapted from the story "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson. The adapted story was written by Shin'ichi Hoshi and Masami Fukushima. The movie was produced by Toho Company, Ltd. and released theatrically in Japan on August 11th, 1963. The premise of the film involves a group of castaways that get stranded on a tropical island exposed to mutant fungal life forms that slowly transforms those exposed to them into Mushroom People.