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Shiver Me Timbers!
After the wild success of "Halloween", I'm not sure anyone expected John Carpenter to do a movie as frightening as "The Fog". It starts out perfectly, with John Houseman (as an old salt) telling the tale of how the "Elizabeth Dane" sank off "Spivey Point", drowning all aboard. He tells this story to a group of kids at exactly 11:55 pm (you'll understand why this is significant when you see it). This is a classic intro to a classic chiller! Adrienne Barbeau stars as disc jockey / KAB radio owner "Stevie Wayne", broadcasting from her lighthouse radio station. Jamie Lee (Halloween) Curtis is Beth, a hitchhiker on her way to Vancouver. Hal Holbrook is the Priest of the local church. He uncovers (more like it almost drops in his lap) a terrible secret about his grandfather; a secret involving conspiracy and murder. A murder plot that results in the founding of the town. A curse is being fulfilled this night, the one hundred year anniversary of the small town. There's something in the fog. It moves against the wind and seems to glow. Just what IS it?? This is a scary flick! I've seen it many times and still jump and squirm in spots! Watch it with Halloween on a cold, dark night. You'll chew your nails to nubs! The music is great as well. Carpenter has a way with simple, repetative, yet creepy as hell sounds. Lock your doors. Bolt your windows. And whatever you do, DON'T GO OUT IN THE FOG...

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A highly underrated gem of the horror genre...
John Carpenter's "The Fog" was a disappointment at the box office - and among many critics - when it was first released in 1980. But, like Carpenter's remake of "The Thing" (1982), "The Fog" has gained an ever-growing cult following over the last two decades, and many critics have given the film a second look and now regard it as a classic, "old-fashioned" ghost story. Along with "The Thing" and "Halloween", this film in my opinion represents Carpenter's best work. Almost everything in this film is perfectly done - the acting, the plot, the musical score, and the eerie, moody feel of the entire film. The film is set in the beautiful little seaside town of Antonio Bay, California, which is preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its' founding. On the night before the celebration, several bizarre and unnatural events take place between midnight and one AM - cars turn on by themselves and honk their horns, glass windows crack and shatter for no reason, gasoline pumps begin working all by themselves, and a glowing, creepy fog is seen offshore by Stevie Wayne, the owner and deejay of the local radio station (Adrianne Barbeau, in one of her most memorable roles). Father Malone, the Episcopalian priest at the local church (Hal Holbrook, in an appropriately gloom-and-doom performance) finds a journal written by his grandfather, one of Antonio Bay's founding fathers. In it he learns that his grandfather and the town's five other founding members (their memories are being honored at the 100th anniversary celebration the next day) are actually murderers and thieves. It seems that a wealthy man named Blake developed leprosy and moved to a leper colony on an offshore island. He wanted to move the colony to the shore a few miles from the town, but the six founders of Antonio Bay were horrified at the prospect of a next-door leper colony, so they set a campfire on the beach to lure Blake's ship - the "Elizabeth Dane" - to its' doom on the jagged rocks offshore. A glowing, eerie fog covered the ship, it hit the rocks and sank, and all of the poor lepers on board - including Blake - were drowned. Blake's fortune in gold coins was used to build the church and a huge gold cross where Father Malone now holds worship services. From there the film rapidly picks up speed, as the creepy fog rolls in from the ocean, causing havoc with power and telephone lines, and horrifying "shapes" (the long-dead corpses of the lepers) appear out of the fog to claim their revenge. This film doesn't have much blood and gore, but like all classic films of the genre it has plenty of suspense, tension, and chills. Just as "Psycho" made many people scared of showers and "Jaws" left others wondering whether their beaches were safe, after watching "The Fog" you'll never see another fogbank the same way again. Highly Recommended!

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The Fog is a Good Film (Looks a bit dated)
This film is in the era of the late seventies/early eighties new wave style horror films:Halloween/Carrie/Creepshow etc.
At the time not one of the greatest but it seems to grow on you the more you watch it!!
The opening sequence with the Edgar Allen Poe quote,the electronic type of music typical of the era and the atmospheric camp fire with the children.It has a ghostly seafaring feel,which draws you in.

The actors typical John Carpenter (Jamie Leigh Curtis,Hal Halbrook etc.)Also Tom Atkins character who starts off very go lucky but ends up very sullen and serious!!

The end scenes are truly scary and very atmospheric.Worth a second glance.