Rent The Fog (1980)
3.5 of 5 from 214 ratings
1h 26min
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- Synopsis:
- Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumours of a secret as old as the town begin to surface and the people of Antonio Bay realise they are victims of long dead sailors who have come to take revenge for their own murders at the hands of the town's founding fathers. The townspeople can only wait for the fog to roll in and pray that they are not the next to die.
- Actors:
- Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Tom Atkins, James Canning, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Kyes, Ty Mitchell, Hal Holbrook, John F. Goff, George 'Buck' Flower, Regina Waldon, Jim Haynie, Darrow Igus, John Vick, Jim Jacobus, Fred Franklyn, Ric Moreno, Lee Socks
- Directors:
- John Carpenter
- Producers:
- Debra Hill
- Voiced By:
- Charles Nicklin
- Writers:
- John Carpenter, Debra Hill
- Studio:
- Momentum
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror, Thrillers
- Collections:
- The Film Highlights of 1980, Top 10 Films About Radio: Rock to Rap, Top 10 Films By Year, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 04/08/2008
- Run Time:
- 90 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 29/10/2018
- Run Time:
- 90 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
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Reviews (2) of The Fog
Weak Ghost Story - The Fog review by GI
Something of a cult favourite like many of John Carpenter's films but this one hasn't aged well and suffered from the need to add scenes to lengthen the film and too make it more 'scary'. The prologue with the great John Houseman is a one such scene that is arguably the best scene of the entire film. A hospital scene where a corpse rises from the dead is a damp squib and Jamie Lee Curtis hardly reacts especially as it just falls over and that's that! This is a ghost story with the titular fog meant to represent the harbinger of evil - "There's something in the fog" cries Adrienne Barbeau's warning over the airwaves of her frankly awful radio show. We'd have to wait a few years for "There's something in the mist" to get a more interesting film about tis sort of thing in The Mist (2007). Here we have small town America celebrating its centennial when a strange fog drifts in from the sea. This has bought with it ghosts of a ship's crew from 100 years ago that were killed by the townsfolk for their treasure and these spirits now want revenge on the ancestors of six people who were responsible. The ghosts have nasty hooks and swords and cause a few gory deaths but the film ultimately lacks any real sense of tension or terror. Carpenter adds a little mystery to the narrative but it's wasted because we've already seen the ghostly apparitions very early on. The structure here being a bit ill thought out making for a film that fails to really become gripping.
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NOT to be remastered. - The Fog review by NW
I think this is a terrific movie,before the 90s when Filmmakers "had" a clue,it knows how to build the suspence,when to pounce and when not to,they just don't get it these days.I remember the first Video Recorder I got and this and "Uncle Buck"were the very first V.H.S tapes I ever bought,definitely a keepsake for life.
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