
Matango
マタンゴ
1963 · Film · 89 min
Directed by Ishirō Honda
HorrorScience FictionThrillerDramaMysteryFantasy
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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I think they will remake the Japanese horror film Matango but instead of fungi, it will be those that use EM dashes to survive.
Just like in one of the most underrated films of all time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matango
This maybe "Attack of the Mushroom People Official Trailer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWNAX2DlmTI
Go to the last 10 seconds or so for the good bit.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057295/ "Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms."
Directed by the guy who did Godzilla.