Sunday, 22 August 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE FOG (1980)

“The Fog” is a horror thriller, written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill and Directed by John Carpenter.

 

The story is set against the backdrop of the peaceful community of the coastal town of Antonio Bay, California who are making preparations to celebrate the towns’ centenary.

However strange supernatural occurrences blemish the festivities as an unearthly impenetrable and opaque fog rolls off the ocean to shroud the seaside town and leads to unaccountable disappearances, so is there something evil lurking in the fog?

Could it be linked to events a century earlier when a hideous crime was committed by the town's elders when they sealed the fate of a ship full of drowned mariners now lying on the bottom of the sea.

So has the fog brought the restless dead seeking revenge and demanding justice?

Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman and Hal Holbrook bring this ghostly tale to life, while the photography by Dean Cundey makes it all seem real.


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