The Fog

So creepy and chilling. One of the most iconic horrors and certainly carpenters best film alongside the thing. Halloween was so boring and overrated!
In the first hour it builds up suspense perfectly, before unleashing the ending.
Was so frightened of this when I was a kid seeing it on tv and still love the creepiness of it. 10/10.

The Fog is probably one of the best ghost stories ever made. Granted... Carpenter is one of my favourite directors, so don't take my word for it. Just watch it for yourself.

Great, effective, spooky ghost tale. This one has really won me over over the years. It's the best of Carpenter; moody, atmospheric and full of great characters.

As you would expect from director John Carpenter's earlier films, “The Fog” is above all characterized by its extremely dense atmosphere. And that is more than enough to make for a thoroughly thrilling movie. My problem, however, is that the story didn't really appeal to me. In contrast, Michael Myers as the villain in “Halloween,” for example, is beautifully simple and easy to understand for everyone. That's not necessarily the case with “The Fog, especially as I didn't find the characters particularly interesting either. But as I said, the atmosphere carries the movie through to the end. And that's why it's still worth a definite recommendation today.

One of the better Steven King based movies. What is in the fog? It is coming to get you!

The Fog is one of the most unappreciated horror films from the 80's. The movie is very atmospheric and always builds up from it's previous scenes.

It perfectly hides it's villains behind shadows making the mystery even more creepy by simply not knowing. Something that's missing in today's horror.

And the opening sequence is one of most chilling and haunting openings to any horror movie. It's basically an old fishermen (played excellently by John Houseman) telling a ghost story, and just that scene alone gave me the chills. It's one of my all time favorite scenes from any horror movie and just a fantastic way to start a film. The piano use in that scenes was so dark and yet so sad. Amazing.

John Carpenter is a master.

Has a great cast and a fine John Carpenter score. You also have Jamie Lee Curtis in a movie with her mom Janet Leigh (Psycho).
The movie just doesn’t do enough with the cast. It is over before you know it.

super heavy John Carpenter vibes throughout the whole movie both music and cinematography also a pretty good ghost story!

Not the sharpest movie in Carpenter's portfolio, but also not the worst. Of all, this is the most sinister and creepy. Acting was so-so, mood was decent, effects were splendid for its time.

That last half hour is great right? Before that I thought The Fog was okay but that last hour made it good. The tension, the ending, the fog, the dead zombie pirates, Jamie, Tom, Janet, Hal, Adrienne, Carpenter you are the master!

Anyway, I really laughed and liked the bit were Elizabeth (Curtis) step in Nick's (Atkins) car and a few scenes later they are in bed together and introduce themselves. Only in horror!

The soundtrack is nice too, but that is just always the case with a Carpenter. And I liked the fact that we find out like 20 minutes after seeing the book, what is really in it. It is paced very well, although it might feel kind of slow, but it works. Because it's all for the build up.

I especially liked the scene were Stevie (Adrienne Barbeau) was stuck on the roof of the lighthouse chased by two Zombie Pirate Dead guys.

So, yeah now it is time for bed and hopefully I won't wake up in the middle of the night to find out that there is fog!