Attack of the Mushroom People
AIP Production #6539

Jeff and Cheryl know which of them will eat the mushrooms and which one will not during the Attack of the Mushroom People.

Directed by Ishirō Honda
Screenplay by Takeshi Kimura
Story by Shinichi Hoshi and Masami Fukushima
Based on the short story “The Voice in the Night” by William Hope Hodgson 

Starring:  
Akira Kubo as Professor Kenji Murai
Kumi Mizuno as Mami Sekiguchi
Kenji Sahara as Senzō Koyama
Hiroshi Tachikawa as Etsurō Yoshida
Yoshio Tsuchiya as Masafumi Kasai
Hiroshi Koizumi as Naoyuki Sakuda
Miki Yashiro as Akiko Sōma
Jiro Kumagai as Doctor at Tokyo Medical Center
Yutaka Oka as Doctor at Tokyo Medical Center
Keisuke Yamada as Doctor at Tokyo Medical Center
Hideyo Amamoto, Haruo Nakajima, Masaki Shinohara, Kōji Uruki, Toku Ihara, Kuniyoshi Kashima and Tokio Ōkawa as Matango/Mushroom People

A Toho Studios Production released by American International Television (AITV). Find Attack of the Mushroom People (Matango) on the Criterion Channel or rent it on Prime Video.

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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955).

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