The Fog

my personal favorite of carpenter's. when janet leigh snaps out of her grief, takes the book from hal holbrook, and flawlessly rattles off the terms of the pirate curse, i love it. 100 read more

the first time i saw the fog was back when i ws 15. me and my horror movie buddy at the time were huge carpenter fans and had either just seen or were about to see in the mouth of madness in theatres. we both hated the fog. we were bored and it looked just awful. this was on video and pan and scanned and probably played a hundred times or so. so today i have reached the fog and i hope to change my tune. it's on dvd, it's widescreen and i'm older and more appreciative of things i might not liked or understood as a wee teen. i don't expect to think this film is amazing but it's gotta be better... read more

i think what i appreciated most about the fog is that the characters quickly become aware they are in a horror movie, but don't directly address it. this isn't scream where they are discussing the rules or anything, but everyone immediately accepts that there is some evil in the fog as soon as they encounter something even a little unusual. that means that even though we as the audience are ahead of the characters, they aren't behaving in ways that are clearly irrational to us. read more

cult of personality 2019 jamie lee curtis hooptober 666 #20 watched on studio canal 4k blu-ray. beautiful picture quality! john carpenter's decade of the 80's is pretty amazing; i've never given a movie of his under four stars (haven't seen starman). this was another great one. carpenter and cundey are gold together. gold! read more

i adore the mood of this movie.. the actual plot is maybe just half decent but it comes to life on screen beautifully. read more

Day 25th of HoopTober (A week of Halloween classics of mine): One of my favorite of John Carpenter's. Very moody and full of dread, with great performances and fantastic directing. Still to this day any rolling fogs always give me the creeps because of this movie like "Jaws" with open water. 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.' - Edgar Allen Poe read more

I'm baffled that this Carpenter film flies under the radar. It's not very bloody, but it has this incredible vibe. I recommend watching it past midnight like I did. Good fun! read more

really loved the small townness of the movie read more

The Fog opens with a weathered old seaman telling a group of young children the tale of a vessel called the Elizabeth Dane which was deliberately shipwrecked off the coast of Antonio Bay, killing its crew and sinking its riches. The valuable cargo was stolen and then used by the town to benefit the church, however legend tells of the fated crew of the Dane returning to the Bay to seek revenge on those whose ancestors were involved in this tragic event. Far from just being a story to keep wide-eyed children awake at night, the sudden arrival of a strange fog brings with it the ghosts of the... read more