review by Mr. DuLac Pro
The Fog 1980
Watched May 21, 2012
Mr. DuLac’s review:
There's something in the fog!
-Stevie Wayne
An often over looked John Carpenter horror classic. It was sandwiched between his releases of Halloween and Escape from New York so it's easy to see why. While it isn't quite as good as those two films, it's still extremely inventive in it's set up and how Carpenter builds tension throughout the film.
It's head above most horror films of the 80s in it's directing, script and acting. This is back when Carpenter was making films that seemed filled with real people that made the terror feel all the more real. The only thing really missing is a stronger third act and this movie could have been proudly put next to Carpenter's best films.
Hal Holbrook is fantastic in this. Great actor. One of my favourite John Carpenter films.
Yes he was! Also loved Donald Pleasence's bit part at the beginning. A slightly better ending and I would have ranked this among Carpenter's best films. It's not a knock on this film, it's just he's made some truly great genre pictures in this period, late 70s to late 80s... argument could be made for early 90s as well. I have a soft spot for In the Mouth of Madness.
Carpenter used to make some great horror movies.
One of my favorite horror movies. Scared the crap out of me the first time I saw it. Watch it every october around Halloween.
I watched this when I was a kid... then every summer when we would go to my grand-parents cottage during the summer you'd get fog on some of the colder nights... it would scare the crap out of me;
This movie emotionally scarred me when I was a kid lol.
I miss movies like this.