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Source: The Criterion Collection press release
Special Thanks to Courtney Ott 

In October, the Criterion Channel will stream Toho's horror classic MATANGO (マタンゴ,1963), starring Hiroshi Koizumi, Kumi Mizuno, and Kenji Sahara.

Leaving behind the kaiju genre for which he was best known, director Ishiro Honda took a detour into hallucinogenic science fiction with this disturbing psychological survival thriller that stands as perhaps the director’s darkest and most complex work. When their yacht washes ashore a remote island, a group of vacationing youths soon find themselves giving in to the temptation of the strange mushrooms that grow there—initiating a grotesque transformation and descent into surreal terror.

MATANGO is part of a sci-fi and horror-heavy lineup for October, which also includes more than a dozen films from director John Carpenter (THE FOG, CHRISTINE, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THEY LIVE, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS), a selection of 2000s thrillers (WHAT LIES BENEATH, THE OTHERS, [•REC], LAKE MUNGO, TOOLBOX MURDERS, TRIANGLE), body horrors (THE BROOD, THE FLY, ALTERED STATES, TROUBLE EVERY DAY, BUG), and more. 

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