It's foggy out there!
Legendary horror director/writer John Carpenter gives us a gem.
A mysterious fog has shrouded a small town one evening, the problem is that in the fog lurks an evil presence that has started killing the townspeople!
Jamie Lee Curtis and real life mother Janet Leigh show their horror movie acting chops yet again (Halloween and Psycho, respectively) in this film. The mother-daughter duo would again grace the screen in the last good installment of the Micheal Meyers series, Halloween: H20: 20 Years Later.
The Fog is a pretty straightforward in that a mysterious fog rolls into town and "things" in it are killing the townsfolk. As the movie progresses, the reason for the killings are revealed.
A very scary horror movie at the time it was released (1980) that spawned a disappointing reboot in 2005 starring Tom Welling. Unfortunately for goof ol' Tommy, he's only known as Clark Kent in Smallville; so when this movie was released, a typecast Welling couldn't make himself believable as a horror-struck teen in a monster attack.
My Rating:
3.99957387 out of 5 stars
Although not related to this movie,Stephen King's The Mist has drawn some attention to its similarities to it. Stephen King gives John Carpenter a nod in The Mist if you pay close attention:
The Fog is a pretty straightforward in that a mysterious fog rolls into town and "things" in it are killing the townsfolk. As the movie progresses, the reason for the killings are revealed.
A very scary horror movie at the time it was released (1980) that spawned a disappointing reboot in 2005 starring Tom Welling. Unfortunately for goof ol' Tommy, he's only known as Clark Kent in Smallville; so when this movie was released, a typecast Welling couldn't make himself believable as a horror-struck teen in a monster attack.
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| "Fog? I'll just use my super breath! ...wait a minute..." |
My Rating:
3.99957387 out of 5 stars
Although not related to this movie,Stephen King's The Mist has drawn some attention to its similarities to it. Stephen King gives John Carpenter a nod in The Mist if you pay close attention:
"In the opening shot of the film, David is painting in his room. The picture he's drawing is a design from Stephen King's Dark Tower series of the gunslinger Roland. Another design in the room is that of the poster of John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). John Carpenter also wrote and directed The Fog (1980), which shares obvious themes with The Mist."
If you get the chance, you should check out the original Fog movie, then watch The Mist (which was AWESOME). I remember when I read the short story many years ago as a child and thought to myself "this would make an epic movie!" Prophecy fulfilled.
See ya soon!
Jay
The original was much better and scarier. When I watched it, I'd just started my business and had an built my "office" downstairs, which was just a partitioned area in my unfinished basement. I watched The Fog alone (my wife worked nights then), in that spooky basement, while designing a site plan, with a 12" black and white TV on the corner of the drafting table. About half way through the movie I was looking over my shoulder every three minutes or so, jumping at every little sound. Scared the pants off me!
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