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The Fog
on DVD (1979)
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| Starring: |
John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, James Canning |
| Director: |
John Carpenter |
| Studio: |
MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time: |
86 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Collections: |
100 Horror Films |
| User collections: |
The Good...The Bad....& the Awful, Halloween Classics, remakes mistakes, A FALL FROM GRACE, THE JOHN CARPENTER COLLECTION!, 3 Of The Best, Best FREAKIN films EVR!!!, elaine |
| Genres: |
Horror |
| Languages: |
English |
| Released: |
18/10/2004
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Brief synopsis of 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.
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Radio Times
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.
Variety
"...[A] well-made suspenser....John Carpenter demonstrates he has a finger right on the pulse of today's film-going public..."
Time Out
The Fog will disappoint those expecting a re-run of the creepy scares from Halloween. Instead, expanding enormously on...
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