Horror master John Carpenter offers up a triple treat with "The Fog": Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau, and Janet Leigh all in the same movie. As if that weren't enough, both John Houseman and Hal Holbrook make appearances, each clearly enjoying the novelty of being in a horror flick. "The Fog" opens just before the centennial celebration of the seaside town of Antonio Bay. Then the witching hour strikes, glowing fog rolls in, and all hell breaks loose. Carpenter wrote the script with producer Debra Hill, his collaborator on "Halloween", and the two know their craft. It's a creepy story and a tight script, and, as in their previous effort, the audience gets to know the main characters a bit before they're put in danger. The movie also has a sly sense of humor: "Things seem to happen to me," says slasher vet Jamie Lee. "I'm bad luck." Barbeau is also obviously having a great time, sinking her teeth into her role as a frightened disc jockey watching the fog roll in from a lighthouse. "The Fog" offers a few shocks and plenty of good old-fashioned clammy chills. You'll never look at weather systems the same way again. "--Ali Davis"
A classic John Carpenter flick.... which has plagued me for years. I first saw this as a 5 year old little girl and was quite disturbed by the fog creatures that even AS AN ADULT I am afraid of fog. When it starts to roll in, those childish, irrational fears come back to me. Pretty solid story line, decent effects for 1980. The acting is what you would expect from a horror film at this time. Kind of a plus to get Jamie Lee Curtis in a flick with h..
Watching recently (albeit, verrry reluctantly) that unceasingly-awful 2005 remake of "The Fog" did little more than remind me yet again what a genuinely scary, haunting and memorable movie the 1980 John Carpenter-directed original is -- one that I think, in many ways, is vastly superior not only to Carpenter's first bonified horror film (1978's "Halloween"), but also superior to many of the ones that Carpenter made AFTER "T..
One of my all time favorite horrors and one of my favorite John Carpenter flicks, in fact, since I was too young to see Halloween when it came out, this was the first Carpenter film I saw in a theater and the flick that started me on my love of his movies. The Fog tells the story of the 100 year anniversary of the small coastal California town of Antonio Bay and as the town prepares for it’s centennial celebration, a dark secret is r..
