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The Fog
1979
Director John Carpenter creates an old-fashioned campfire ghost story with THE FOG. Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumors of a secret as old as the town begin to .. Read more
| Starring | John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau |
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| Director | John Carpenter |
| Genres | Horror |
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The Fog
Director John Carpenter creates an old-fashioned campfire ghost story with THE FOG. Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumors of a secret as old as the town begin to surface and the people of Antonio Bay realize they are victims of long dead sailors who have come to revenge their own murders at the hands of the town's founding fathers. The townspeople can only wait for the fog to roll in and pray that they are not the next to die.
Carpenter creates a chilling film with THE FOG and gets fine performances out of Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, and the fog itself, which creeps and crawls around as if it were alive. The film elicits its scares out of what is not seen rather than what is, and Carpenter exploits that style perfectly. Vauge shapes move within the fog, while strange noises heard in the distance grow louder, and no one can say exactly what they are up against. THE FOG is one of Carpenter's earlier films and helped to establish his reputation as a master filmmaker.
| Starring | John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, James Canning |
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| Director | John Carpenter |
| Studio | MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 26 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 26 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 26 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Horror Films |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 18 Oct 2004 Blu-ray: 04 Aug 2008 HD DVD: 26 Mar 2007 Production year: 1979 |
| Format | DVD |
The Fog (1979)
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Director John Carpenter isn't at the peak of his form here, but this is still a reasonable enough shocker about spectral pirates who terrorise a coastal town. Losing dramatic focus by switching between two heroines who never meet — disc jockey Adrienne Barbeau (then married to Carpenter) and Jamie Lee Curtis (starring with real-life mum Janet Leigh for the first time) — Carpenter leans hard on cheap scare tactics (supernatural mists and people jumping out of the dark) more than subtle suspense. However, some sequences do turn the tension dial up quite high.
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"...[A] well-made suspenser....John Carpenter demonstrates he has a finger right on the pulse of today's film-going public..."
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12 out of 12 people found this review helpful
John Carpenter's finest moment
If everyone sat down and thought about the best scary movies they had watched, there'd certainly be one or two of John Carpenter's works in the top 20. For me, this film is John Carpenter's finest work of horror.
The movie is set in San Antonio Bay in the present day (well, 1979 really but you get the idea). 100 years ago, a man named Blake wanted to set up a leper colony for himself and his fellow lepers to live a peaceful existence near to the proposed new town of San Antonio Bay. Blake was prepared to pay a lot of money for this and, once agreed, he set sail with his ship to move his fellow lepers to the new colony. Disaster struck and Blake's ship crashed into the rocks, killing all persons aboard. This happened because of a mysterious light which guided the ships onto the rocks and a strange, glowing fog covering the rocks ahead.
100 years ago to the day, the mysterious fog returns...
Why has the fog returned?
Why are people dying in it?
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Timeless horror
Despite it's age The Fog has aged well, and deserves its reputation as one of the classics of horror. The story is a simple one of the spirits of shipwrecked settlers taking their revenge 100 years later on the descendants of the people who killed them, and the script is completely shaved of any fat, leaving a taught pacy horror film that still has the power to produce the odd scare. Suprisingly for these often low budget genre films the cinematography is great, and the effects of the fog itself rolling over the town in a thick wall is brilliantly done. Half ghost movie, half zombie flick, this is very basic, but masterfully done.
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Fog, The - HD DVD Version
Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumours of a secret as old as the town begin to surface and the people of Antonio Bay realise they are ...
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The Fog
Director John Carpenter creates an old-fashioned campfire ghost story with THE FOG. Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumors of a secret as ...
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