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- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- February 8, 1980 (44 years ago)
- Alias
- John Carpenter's The Fog
- Language
- English
- Origin
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
Adrienne BarbeauStevie Wayne
Jamie Lee CurtisElizabeth Solley
Hal HolbrookFather Malone
Janet LeighKathy Williams
Tom AtkinsNick Castle
John HousemanMr. Machen
Ty MitchellAndy
James CanningDick Baxter
Charles CyphersDan O'Bannon
Nancy KyesSandy Fadel
John F. GoffAl Williams
George Buck FlowerTommy Wallace
Regina WaldonMrs. Kobritz
Jim HaynieDockmaster
Darrow IgusMel
John CarpenterBennett
Darwin JostonDr. Phibes
Tommy Lee WallaceGhost
Lee SocksGhost
Ric MorenoGhost
Fred FranklynAshcroft
John StrobelGrocery Clerk
Rob BottinBlake
Charles NicklinBlake (voice)
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 youngsters grouped around a campfire about a foggy curse that surrounds a coastal town where a horrible shipwreck took place 100 years ago.
The Fog is pivotal to the cementing of director John Carpenter’s aesthetic.
The problem is with the fog. It must have seemed like an
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...
The Fog will disappoint those expecting a re-run of the creepy scares from Halloween. Instead, expanding enormously on the fantasy elements of his earlier films
R • 1 hour 31 min • 1980
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