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An underated gem, a great ghost story and one that isn't apprechiated enough by genre fans.
Posted By: madmondo13 at 1:35pm, September 14, 2009
Set in a fictional California town called Antonio Bay, it’s about a town on the verge of its centennial celebration. As the clock strikes midnight, a mysterious fog rolls across the water and into the town. Strange lights are emitted from The Fog and shadowy figures holding baling hooks and scythes appear and disappear, while all sorts of havoc breaks out in the town — car alarms go off, furniture moves around, and shit just gets all-around weird. Three sets of characters try to figure out what’s happening while also trying to stay alive — fisherman Nick and the beautiful hitchhiker/one-night-stand he picked up Elizabeth (Jamie Lee Curtis); Kathy (Janet Leigh), the town matron who is organizing the centennial party with her assistant Sandy (Nancy Loomis), and Stevie (Adrienne Barbeau) the local DJ who can see the fog coming in from the lighthouse she works out of and is desperately trying to get her son out of danger. The story is a lean, tightly paced tale about the town’s dark history with a nasty sins-of-the-father twist. The cast is quite good — no brilliant, career changing performances, but each gives a solid, steady turn. Most intriguingly, it features three absolutely iconic female actresses (Barbeau, Leigh and Curtis, the latter two of which are real-life mother and daughter - an impressive collection of celluloid queens at different stages of their careers.
The Fog is one of Carpenter’s more underrated films. It’s an effectively creepy ghost story with less emphasis on horror and gore, and more on a quiet sense of dread and eerie atmosphere. With a couple of pretty good jump-out-of-your-seat scares, The Fog is a wonderfully successful entry into the list of a dying breed of movies — the honest-to-goodness ghost story.
One of Carpenters best. I remember watching this as a kid and it scared the shit outta me. Still a great movie today. The mood is creepy and tense and the score by Carpenter is just as good as always.
Carpenter is known for Halloween, thats a given, but its too bad because this is an incredibely good horror movie. The plot centers around the revenge of a bunch of leper-fisherman things with meat hooks destroying a small town. Think Stephen King's The Mist, but gorier...and just, well, better. It is an awesome movie and even if you didn't like Halloween you should still see this one.
Underated is this lovely horror film by the great John Carpenter who was on a roll in the late 70s till late 80s. there was some pretty intense and scary moments, and visually the movie looked beautiful, hard to believe they did all this great stuff WITHOUT cgi!
"Halloween" is the greatest and "The Fog" takes a close second place. John Carpenter break out your keyboard and give us another classic.
Posted By: Ash Williams at 12:57am, August 9, 2008
Just watched this for the first time. I loved it. Everything about this film is great. I would liked to see some more gore, but it really didnt take away from the film. I do wish I would've gotten a clearer shot one of the "ghosts", but that did add to the creepiness factor of the film. This was an excellent idea, the plot was good, and the fog effects kick ass, especially for 1980. It had a little suspense to it too, when the fog was rolling in , I was at the edge of my seat. Overall, its def. a good film and will keep this in mind for future BD drafts as well. I am soooo glad I watched this tonite, and I wish I wouldve seen it sooner.
This is one of my all time favorites. It's EXTREMELY underrated!!! This is definitely one of the best John Carpenter movies. An absolute MUST for horror fans!
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