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Honeydew – Dir Devereux Milburn Talks Historical, Horror Inspiration
"A friend of mine sent an article about mass poisonings in a small French village in the 1950s called Pont-Saint-Esprit, where a large portion of the residents of the town became infected by ergot, which is a fungus commonly found on rye," Milburn explained "People were developing gangrene, having hallucinations, going insane, and being committed[...]