Gilligan's Island


who else saw a lot of similarities between the cast of Matango and gilligan's island? it was also made right before gilligan's island started (1964) so that is kind of weird. makes you wonder whether the producer/writers got the idea watching this?

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The Wages of Fear and Matango may have inspired the video game Super Mario Bros.(a mustachioed hero and mushroom people)

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Gilligan's Island by way of The Twilight Zone

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I just watched this movie last night for the first time with a friend, and we both thought the same thing! If Gilligan's Island were a horror film it'd be called Matango!

"Inside my heart is breaking, my makeup may be faking, but my smile still stays on!"

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Yes, Gilligan's Island ripped off this movie. Seven castaways, a radio, the skipper's hat. GI even had a poison mushroom (rumuszeglumus) episode.

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Big difference between the radios, Gilligan had a "magic" radio that lasted for years on the same batteries. The radio in this movie conked out very quickly.

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