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Matango

Matango1963

Can you survive the madness and terror of Matango?

Directed by Ishirō Honda

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IMDb 6.4TMDB 6.7
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Year
1963
Runtime
89 min

The premise

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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When a pleasure yacht is wrecked near a remote equatorial island, its seven survivors must eke out an existence on land that offers precious little to eat — and far too much to fear. Tensions over dwindling rations crack the group apart long before the island's true secret reveals itself. Director Ishirō Honda crafts a slow-burn descent in which the greatest monsters may not be the ones lurking in the undergrowth. What begins as a castaway survival story quietly mutates into something deeply strange and deeply human.

Content: Disfigurement, Body Horror, Disturbing Imagery

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