Naughty Dog's 2013 masterpiece was heavily influenced by Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel The Road, and/or John Hillcoat's critically acclaimed film adaptation of same name.
While similarities between Man (Joel), Boy (Ellie) and cannibals (David and co) are undeniable, I'll let them off because book isn't about a fungal plague.
In fact, catastrophe that caused extinction event isn't disclosed.
Miscellany
65 (2023)
Commandant Mills (Joel) guides survivor Koa (Ellie) across prehistoric landscape.
It was obvious what they were going for, but characters share zero chemistry.
A Quiet Place Part II (2022)
When Emmett and Regan arrive at the marina, they're attacked by a bandit gang (Fireflies).
Resident Evil - 2022 series
Scavengers are basically Fireflies.
Gaia (2021)
Title of Jaco Bouwer's ecological horror is named after the Greek goddess of Earth.
Forestry employees Gabi and Winston encounter fungus covered humans, whose spores infect others.
Ladies and germs, presenting one of the most terrifying creatures ever conceived.
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| Clicker |
Others got in on the action.
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| A Quiet Place (2018) Death Angels hunt purely by echolocation. |
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| Resident Evil 2 (2019) Ivy (aka Ivy zombies) emit a similar croak. |
God would never forgive me if I didn't mention one ugly motherfucker.
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| Predator (1987) Clicking and gurgling sound was created by none other than Peter 'Optimus Prime' Cullen. |
Unpleasant fact.
When recording eleven reels worth of roars for King Kong (1976), dude strained his voice that much, he coughed up blood.
I digress.
Jeff VanderMeer
The setting of Ambergris began in 1992 with short story Learning to Leave the Flesh.
Annihilation (2014)
Novel kicked off the Southern Reach trilogy, and was followed by Authority and Acceptance.
During the twelfth expedition of Area X, a group consisting of biologist, anthropologist, psychologist and surveyor (never identified by name), discover an intelligent, deadly fungus.
2018 film
Alex Garland said his adaptation was a 'memory of the book' and departed from source material in many ways, eerily resembling H. P. Lovecraft story The Colour Out of Space.
It should also be noted film also reflects Strugatsky brothers novel Roadside Picnic (loosely adapted as Stalker in 1979).
Anyway, after reaching a military base, they find a soldier's corpse overgrown with alien fungi.
As far as I can tell, scene is taken from book's description of surveyor finding anthropologist.
"There wasn't left much of her face, and odd burn marks were all over the remaining skin. Spilling out from her broken jaw, which looked as though someone had wrenched it open in a single act of brutality, was a torrent of green ash that sat on her chest in a mound. Her hands, palms up in her lap, had no skin left on them, only a gauzy filament and more burn marks. Her legs seemed fused together and half-melted, one boot missing and one flung against the wall."
It appears the first episode of HBO series cloned shit.
But have no fear.
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| Ellie finds a key on pharmacist's body in 2014 DLC prequel Left Behind. |
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| To inject a bit of uninspiring action, it comes alive in episode 7 of same name |
Best or worst of all.
The Girl with All the Gifts (2014)
Buried within classroom set anthologies An Apple for the Creature (2012) and Zombies: More Recent Dead (2014) is Iphigenia in Aulis (title taken from one of the final works by Greek tragedian Euripides).
Zombie children schooled at a remote military facility proved to be the genesis for TGWATG.
To quote M. R. Carey himself.
"In the short story the pathogen was a virus and in the novel it was a fungus, because in between writing them both I watched a David Attenborough programme on the cordyceps fungus and I thought to myself, this is just too good."
Miss Justineau forms a close relationship with Melanie, an exceptional young girl and second-generation hungry, who potentially holds the key to saving humanity.
He should've added:
"Oh, I also blatantly screwed video game The Last of Us."
2016 film
Director Colm McCarthy took multiple cues from Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and 'unofficially', another source.
Check out primary threat.
Say no more.
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