John Carpenter’s The Fog is 40

[Phyrebrat]

Possibly my favourite horror film and shares inspiration for my novel.

I love this film and have lost count of the amount of times I’ve watched it.

This article is a nice short read on it.

John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog’ Brought Seafaring Ghosts to the Big Screen 40 Years Ago

After the success of Halloween, John Carpenter returned to horror once more with a traditional ghost story. Co-written with producer Debra Hill, The Fog opens with old Mr. Machen (John Houseman) telling a group of kids around a fire the eerie tale of the clipper ship Elizabeth Dane that sank off...

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[Matteo]

Fantastic film.

 

[BAYLOR]

They just don't make films like this anymore.

 

[reiver33]

Yup, far superior to the remake

 

[BAYLOR]

Yup, far superior to the remake

The remake was ,badly acted, badly written, badly directed disaster of a movie.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I'm sure this film was both advertised and credited as based on the James Herbert novel The Fog. But Herbert's book was about a chemical gas leak from a weapons development facility, that made people go crazy when they breathed it in. Which, of course, is nothing to do with undead pirates! I presumed somewhere in the early development the rights from the novel were originally used to green light the film. However, I don't see a reference on Wikipedia about this.

 

[HanaBi]

I have watched The Fog perhaps 3 or 4 times over the last 40 years, and still cannot find any love for it.