Sam Williamson is a Senior Writer at Collider who focuses on horror movies, comedies, action adventures, and classic TV shows.
The Big Picture If you're a true scary movie fan, then you likely know that Japanese horror is where it's at. There's just a touch of J-horror that is missing in Western productions. Whether it be the deeply thematic ideas at play, their approach to allegory, singular supernatural edge, or the deep sadness in these stories, there's a particular flavor that struggles to translate elsewhere — even in the routinely mild to terrible remakes of J-horror classics.
Release Date August 11, 1963 Director Ishirô Honda Cast Akira Kubo , Kumi Mizuno , Hiroshi Koizumi , Kenji Sahara , Hiroshi Tachikawa Runtime 89 Minutes Main Genre Horror Writers Takeshi Kimura Studio Toho 'Matango' Is Atomic Horror at Its Scariest Both fortunately and unfortunately, it seems that, as that series took off, the demand was for these movies to focus more on giant monsters duking it out and less on mirroring our own world.
'Matango' and 'Godzilla' Show Two Sides of Ishirō Honda's Nuclear Filmography Matango is bursting at the seams with quiet devastation. It has a simple plot, one that follows an island made up of people who have been genetically altered by the land's mushrooms. Straight out of the gate, there's a body horror element that clearly differentiates this movie from its Western counterparts.
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