Read the Empire Movie review of EMPIRE ESSAY: The Fog. Even if Carpenter can't quite resist his prerequisite dig at the American dream ("Our celebration...

Read the Empire Movie review of The Fog. Sizzling with shock and suggestion. ...

Like his peers George Romero and Tobe Hooper, director John Carpenter was labeled a “modern master of horror” after one surprise hit film, even though he...

Following up his breakthrough hit Halloween, John Carpenter eschewed slasher flick terror in favor of ghost story eeriness with The Fog, an atmospheric tale ...

John Carpenter’s 1980 movie, which hinges more on suspense than on gore, has been newly restored and is showing at the Metrograph.

The problem is with the fog. It must have seemed like an inspired idea to make a horror movie in which clouds of fog would be the menace, but the idea just

★★★★☆The John Carpenter revival machine is in overdrive. Not only have we had the release of a rebooted Halloween, on which the 70-year-old horror ...

John Carpenter is anything but subtle in his approach to shocker material. Premise is obvious from almost the first frame, as a grizzled John Houseman tells ...