The Fog (1979)
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as Stevie Wayne
as Father Malone
as Kathy Williams
as Elizabeth Solley
as Machen
as Nick Castle
as Sandy Fadel
as Dan O'Bannon
as Andy Wayne
as Tommy Wallace
as Sheriff Simms
as Mayor
as Dick Baxter
as Mrs. Kobritz
as Mel Sloane
as Blake
as Bartender
as Dick Baxter
as Hank Jones
as Ashcroft
as Al Williams
as Dr. Phibes
as Blake
as Grocery Clerk
as Ghost
as Ghost
as Bennett (assistant at the church) (uncredited)
as Ghost
as Child
as Child
as Child
as Child
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Critic Reviews for The Fog
All Critics (42) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (12) | DVD (17)
The movie's made with style and energy, but it needs a better villain.
A completely solid piece of horror filmmaking that's only slightly undone by its flaws as a piece of horror storytelling.
Carpenter has always been a master of scaring us with what we're not seeing as opposed to delivering an onslaught of carnage to assault our senses and The Fog shows that you can scare the hell out of people without showing them a lot.
Though the plot is implausible and the unfolding story hardly makes any sense, Carpenter stylishly presents an eerie atmosphere for the zombie invasion.
The Fog is right in line with the types of film Carpenter made before his professional fall from grace: It's unpretentious genre fun, stylishly assembled and populated with colorful characters.
Released four years after the Bicentennial, 'The Fog' might be a jaundiced corrective to the often uncritical self-congratulation of America's birthday celebration, with the ghosts as manfestations of manifest destiny's bloody heritage.
Audience Reviews for The Fog
A highly underrated horror gem by the great John Carpenter. So many great scenes and the score is one of Carpenter's best. Delivers relentless unpretentious thrills from beginning to end.
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A simple but effective horror movie with an atmospheric score and some good scares even if the script is sometimes illogical and full of plot holes. Besides, it proves that showing dead people knocking on doors before entering can be really scary (apart from hilarious).
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Filmed two years after the success of 'Halloween' and the kick off for Carpenter's cult movie making career. A cute little horror flick this, a nice old fashioned spooky sea yarn that wouldn't look outta place as a Scooby Doo plot if done that way. Overall a very basic film with bottom of the barrel effects clearly done on a shoestring yet it still works effectively. I love the mist effects in this film as they remind me of many old classic black n white horror's. A really nice kind of 'Twilight Zone' feel about the proceedings that gives great atmosphere and a decent chill to the bone with all the misty cold dusk vista's. As said the film is very basic but offers nice creativity on all counts. The nasty spooky ghosts are merely actors in dark clothes and shot in silhouette, the odd bit of seaweed draped on their arms and leader Captain Blake has glowing red eyes. They simply turn up with the fog and knock on peoples doors hoping to be let in so they can kill you...how polite! Of course the cast is a classic line up of character actors, some of which Carpenter used for his previous popular horror flick, I don't need to mention them do I. Although personally I wouldn't have used Curtis again, bit samey. I like this film very much, it has a great eerie factor with a plain and simple plot, no silly frills, a pure quality ghost story of old. Loved the use of a smoke machine to pump in the menacing fog at the required moments, so very cheap n obvious but so very cool.
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The Fog Quotes
| Kathy Williams: | Sandy, you're the only person I know who can make "Yes, Ma'am" sound like "screw you". |
| Kathy Williams: | Sandy, you're the only person I know who can make 'Yes, Ma'am' sound like 'screw you'. |
| Sandy Fadel: | Yes, Ma'am. |
| Father Malone: | "Blake, I have your gold. My grandfather stole it from you. I'm the one who must answer for it." |
| Father Malone: | Blake, I have your gold. My grandfather stole it from you. I'm the one who must answer for it. |
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