remake of Matango, describing it as a film that he watched as a child that "scared the shit out of me". Soderbergh said he was unable to reach a deal with Toho, so the remake did not happen. In his book analyzing the kaiju film, Jason Barr noted that Matango was the most famous of films of the genre between the 1960s and 1970s that focused on themes of metamorphosis and assault on human bodies. In the book Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siecle to the Millennium: New Essays, Camara stated that Matango would leave an imprint on Japanese cyberpunk influenced body horror films of the future such as Sogo Ishii's Electric Dragon 80.000 V, Shozin Fukui's Pinocchio 964 and Yoshihiro Nishimura's Tokyo Gore Police. See also List of horror films of 1963 List of Japanese films of 1963 The Last of Us – a 2013 video game featuring creatures infected by a mutated fungus Cordyceps – a genus of fungi often parasitic on insects and other arthropods References Citations General and cited sources External links 1963 films 1963 horror films 1960s science fiction horror films Japanese natural horror films 1960s Japanese-language films Japanese science fiction horror films 1960s monster movies Films based on short fiction Films set on islands Toho tokusatsu films Films directed by Ishirō Honda Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Fictional fungi Films based on adaptations Films set on ships 1960s Japanese films Films about vacationing