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Summary: Carpenter has done it again.
Review: Made the same year as HALLOWEEN, Jamie Lee Curtis plays some wath the same character with 2 other oueens of horror, Adrienne Barbeau (SWAMP THING) and Janet Leigh (PSYCHO) in wath seems to be a old sea dog's verison of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. It is all about this fog and the revenge of a sailors's ghosts. A good movie to see on a night win you have see all the cut-them-up-teen-movies.1978. MGM. 92 MINS. Rated R for Horror Violence.
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Summary: the fog an amature reveiw
Review: John Carpenters, The Fog, is in my opinion, the 70's last great ghost story. If you've ever had the pleasure of visiting Point Ryes, just noth of San Fran, you'd see why a ghost story about Lepers from the sea, betrayel, and murder, is one of the creepiest John Carpenter films ever, in my opinion even surpassing the classic, Halloween.So i can't understand why this is the only John Carpenter film not yet to be released on DVD. I see this film to be in his top three films, so why no DVD. If anybody knows the answer please say so. Thanks
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Summary: John Carpenter's "The Fog" on dvd
Review: When it comes to horror movies,John Carpenter is the master! His movies have a certain type of MOOD or ATMOSPHERE,I can't explain it,but if your a fan,you know what I mean.As far as THE FOG,It's a well told ghost story with an erie feel to it.A small seaside town,a ghost ship,and a cast of great horror stars like Jamie Lee Curtis,Hal Holbrook,and Adrienne Barbeau,blend to make this a fun,and spooky movie.It's one that you'll want to cuddle up under the blankets,and turn out the lights! If you've seen HALLOWEEN or THE THING on dvd,you know you're in for a frightful treat!
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Summary: Sultry Adrienne, cozy fog
Review: The combo of Andrienne Barbeau's voice, the setting along Marin County's stormy coast, and fog rolling in on the lonely lighthouse. It sets a beautiful mood. Not over the top scary. I've watched this movie at least ten times; I find it soothing. Never tire of it because I grew up along the coast.
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Summary: slow movie
Review: Wide-eyed nonsense about a mass of murderous fog that rolls into seaside town to extract revenge on an ages-old comeuppance. Tired and juvenile antics failed to add new dimensions to the slasher-flick cycle in the early 1980's. Performances range from tolerable(Jamie Lee Curtis), to quizzical(Jamie Lee's real-life mother, Janet Leigh)to downright awful(Adrienne Barbeau as "your DJ, Stevie Wayne..."). Indifferently-made, slowly-paced, often laughable and witless, not to mention unscary.
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Summary: Flawed but a Real Spookfest
Review: Next to most of Carpenter's earlier classics like Halloween and The Thing, this one is pretty low on the fright meter. What the movie lacks in blood and jolts it makes up for in atmosphere and mood. Carpenter delivers another winning musical score and the directing is top notch. Like Halloween, the plot is a fairly basic story of revenge. Unless you watched the insipid sequels, you never quite learned why Michael Myers wants to kill Laurie and the rest of her friends in Halloween. We get a clearer picture of motivation in The Fog. Despite a better attempt at exposition, The Fog still feels annoyingly thin and the movie moves along far to quickly to be satisfying. As with Halloween, we never get to know too much about the "good" characters in The Fog. Carpenter once again reserves most of the backstory for the bad guys in an attempt, it seems, to make us more sympathetic toward them. I enjoyed the Fog mostly for the makeup and score, which almost bests Carpenters brilliant work in Halloween. With cinematographer Dean Cundey and the rest of his loyal production grew on board once again, The Fog is a fairly effective follow-up to Halloween. It's scary but not gory.
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Summary: Good Old-Fashioned Spooky Fun!
Review: I recently watched this movie for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am a fan of horror films (not the slashing/gore kind) and I don't know how I had missed this one. Although the plot is obvious this one got quite a few surprised screams out of me. The movie does not show graphic violence, leaving a lot to the imagination, which is usually scarier than anything Hollywood can create. Definitely kept me on the edge of my seat. Barbeau and Curtis are excellent, as usual.
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Summary: Classic Carpenter Creepiness
Review: "The Fog" is a great creepy, scary flick from John Carpenter that although similar to "Halloween" stands completely on its own. John Houseman's ghost story in the opening scene sets the eerie tone and plot of a town (Antonio Bay) cursed by 100 year old drownded lepers. Hal Holbrook is classic as the tormented Father Malone who discovers the crimes of Antonio Bay's founders. His drink-induced warnings of curses and doom to the town are pretty funny. Although Adriennce Barbeau is giving top billing, she is somewhat incidental to most of the action...she keeps the town informed and entertained from her lighthouse radio station, "KAB". (I do find it hard to believe that everyone in Antonio Bay listens to the lame, boring KAB.)The real star of "The Fog" is the fog itself...it lurks and creeps bringing death and mayhem to wherever it goes. As with any Carpenter flick, the dreary, mood-amplifing score completely rounds out the viewing experience, and with a truly typical Carpenter ending, this movie is great for Halloween or anytime.
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Summary: The hidden power of the mist
Review: This movie's thread is synonymous of uneasiness, which is something every Carpenter's admirer is familiar with, but its specificity is rather palpable in this picture, as its menacing atmosphere embraces the viewer from the first moment Houseman's pocket-watch is screened, till Holbrook's prophetic death inside church's walls.
This rather unoriginal ghost-story, features a celebrity trio comprised of Adrienne Barbeau (Back To School), Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) and Janet Leigh (Psycho), who are the main characters involved in this haunting plot. The movie tells about the revenge of a colony of leprosies, who were literally fooled to death a hundred years ago by the village's council of Antonio Bay (a Californian cove), due to greed and intolerance from its assembly and church.
Due to the shortage of its length, the movie doesn't let the characters reveal a profounder psychological grip to their roles (despite the fog itself), which is a vital point in every horror film (even Leigh is quite passive during the whole viewing).
All things considered (and despite this considerable flaw), the movie is quite enjoyable, and enriched with a dreary atmosphere of several eerie moments, which makes it quite worthy, and an example of another entertaining and faithful work of Mr. Carpenter.
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Summary: The Fog
Review: And what happened to the people in the pool?????????????????????????????? The fog got 'em!
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