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THE FOG
U.S., 1980
Directed by John Carpenter
With Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook
Approx. 90 mins. DCP.
“John Houseman of THE PAPER CHASE tells a ghost story around a campfire on the beach, little kids listen with their mouths hanging open, we learn that shipwrecked sailors were murdered near this town a century ago, and that they vowed to return 100 years later. And, of course, tonight's the night.” – Roger Ebert
Reviews
“THE FOG is an...atmospheric chiller, in which a luminous fog rolls into a Californian seaside town, bringing the ghosts of vengeful sailors, killed in a shipwreck a century before.”
– Ed Potton, Times (UK)
“It's one of the director's most atmospheric, the shots of a wave-lashed cove and fog-choked headland making the town's impending reckoning almost poetic.”
– Phil Hoad, The Guardian
“Ultimately, it's a John Carpenter movie: concerned with group dynamics, unhelpful authority figures, strong women, the sins of the past, and that moment when helpless isolation shades into outright terror.”
– Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times