The Fog

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Antonio O A true classic that relies on a good story and score rather than CGI and gratuitous gore. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/16/22 Full Review Audience M A masterful exercise in atmosphere-building and slow-building tension from on of the masters of horror filmmaking, from one of the masters of horror, John Carpenter. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/02/24 Full Review Alec B It remains delightfully old fashioned. Carpenter was deliberately making a camp fire ghost story and it absolutely delivers on that basis. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/30/24 Full Review Kai H The Shorthand Critic: Director John Carpenter followed up the success of “Halloween” with 1980’s “The Fog”. That off-the-wall choice alone deserves consideration. This is a curious little slow-burn chiller. Its rhythmic vibe and energy is just slightly off-beat. Yet that is what makes it linger in the memory like, you guessed it, fog. This clever direction divided critics of its day, and the film slipped away into the beyond until later gaining a cult-following. This has given it the staying power it deserves as “The Fog” is very unique and peculiar. The cast includes the first pairing of Jamie Lee Curtis from “Halloween” and her mother Janet Leigh from “Psycho”—although their screentime together leaves something to be desired. The story is lean but slick involving a radio DJ (Adrienne Barbeau) hulled up in the top of a lighthouse warning the town of an eerie fog rolling in claiming that—“There’s something in the fog!” The best scene takes place on the roof of the lighthouse where a scary attack ensues with Barbeau delivering the goods. It seems unfathomable that it was not even part of the original cut and came about from a necessary reshoot to jive up the chills. The fog effects are great in their rawness. The major complaint is not seeing more random townspeople being effected by the terror. It would have been easy to incorporate this into the vengeful denouement as the DJ was directing everyone to safety—yet we see no one but the main cast. Still, “The Fog” has an old-fashioned ghost story feel and a creepy score by Carpenter that gets under the skin and haunts. Like Hitchcock’s “The Birds”—you will never see fog the same way again! And that’s saying something. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/19/24 Full Review Jonathan O The Fog is a good spooky revenge horror film with really fantastic cinematography it really captures the atmosphere of the bay area and some of John Carpenter's cast members from his latest blockbuster slasher hit Halloween they did really fantastic performance and really fantastic special fog effects and chilling musical score by John Carpenter. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/17/24 Full Review Christian K Immaculate vibes (Carpenter!) with slow, deliberate plotting in the middle act to set up a fun climax. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/14/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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