16.05. 16:05 – Film und Drinks (special, of course: Bloody Mary)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Killer Tomatoes!<\/a> <\/strong>Wir zeigen den Kultklassiker zur Finissage von Knotweed Xenophobia! Hat jemand gesagt Pflanzen seien harmlos?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1954, the Japanese company [Toho Studios] introduced the world to Godzilla<\/em>, a city-smashing reptile who has starred in more than two dozen movies (and counting). To ride Godzilla<\/em>\u2019s massive coattails, Toho unleashed an onslaught of creature features\u2014the strangest of which might be 1963\u2019s Matango<\/em>.<\/a> A twisted survival tale, it\u2019s about five people who get shipwrecked on an island that\u2019s dotted with radioactive mushrooms. Eat one, our heroes learn, and you\u2019ll be transformed into a violent humanoid fungus.<\/p> Matango<\/em> never saw a theatrical release in the U.S., but a dubbed version of the film was broadcast on American television every so often under a different name: Attack of the Mushroom People<\/em>. One night, a San Diego high school student named Costa Dillon caught the flick on TV, and that ridiculous title struck a chord<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 16.05. 16:05 – Film und Drinks (special, of course: Bloody Mary) Killer Tomatoes! Wir zeigen den Kultklassiker zur Finissage von Knotweed Xenophobia! Hat jemand gesagt Pflanzen seien harmlos? In 1954, the Japanese company [Toho Studios] introduced the world to Godzilla, a city-smashing reptile who has starred in more than two dozen movies (and counting). To … <\/p>\n