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Film Details:
Directed by John Carpenter (You don't know who John Carpenter is? I KILL YOU!) Written by Starring Adrienne Barbeau (Swamp Thing, Creepshow - "Just call me Billy! Everyone Does!" - Escape from New York) Jamie Lee Curtis (Please... like I need to tell you people) Janet Leigh (How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border, Touch of Evil, Psycho, gave the world Jamie Lee Curtis - thank you Janet.) Tom Atkins (Serpico, The Ninth Configuration, Creepshow, Escape From New York) Hal Holbrook (The Great White Hope, Julia, Capricorn One, Creepshow… hey, wait a minute...) Special appearance by John Houseman (JOHN HOUSEMAN! You know who he is even if you don't.) MGM Home Entertainment John Carpenter. The name says it all… Well, at least it did once upon a time. Lately he just hasn't seemed to be on his game, but we'll forgive him. Even if he makes nothing but utter crap for the rest of his life, he gave us enough joy and happiness and absolute blood curdling, (literally) eye gouging terror that we just smile and nod when he hands us Vampires or Ghosts of Mars (unfair really, as I haven't seen it). The man gave us Halloween. He gave us Escape From New York. He gave us The Thing. Assault on Precinct 13, Christine, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth of Madness… He inspired a generation of filmmakers. He did it right so many times that when he does it wrong - we forgive him. The Fog is a slick trip into the realm of traditional ghost stories that seems a bit cheesy until you realize that John was going for exactly that feel. The plot revolves around a ship that was wrecked off the coast of the town of Antonio Bay 100 years ago. On the anniversary of the wreck and on the town's 100th birthday, a creepy fog comes rolling in across the town, and there's something in it... something with malicious intentions. The Fog moves of it's own accord. It has an eerie glow. It travels against the wind. It can slip into the smallest cracks, and can really monkey with machinery. It has an agenda and a real bad attitude. In her first big screen appearance, Adrienne Barbeau (then wife to John Carpenter) plays a local radio station owner and the only DJ at the station. She is the first to figure out what the Fog is, and she broadcasts her warnings via her lighthouse radio station. Jamie Lee Curtis, in a role scripted especially for her, plays a hitchhiking rich girl looking for herself who gets involved with Tom Atkins, who plays an average Joe who gets caught in this mess. (Well, he actually plays an average Nick, but let's not get too technical.) Hal Holbrook plays the priest who knows the secret of the Fog, and Janet Leigh is a town council member who is also aware of the Fog's origin and agenda. This movie came out two years after Halloween and one year before Escape From New York. While it is not Carpenter's best film, it is by no means his worst. It manages to be creepy without being gory, which is weird for Carpenter. A solid entry into the Classic Ghost Story genre. DVD Details: Dolby Digital Enhanced 5.1 Surround Further Information: |
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