When Antonio Bay, a Californian coastal town, is about to celebrate its centennial, paranormal activity starts to happen. It's said that the gold to build the city a hundred years ago was taken from shipwrecked lepers and now is time for them to revenge. A fog glowing from the sea gets bigger and thicker and moves to the land, bringing the revengeful sailor.
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July 23, 2013
Halloween brought classic genre style into a new era, and The Fog goes even further in that direction.
January 08, 2016
Carpenter has always been a master of scaring us with what we're not seeing as opposed to delivering an onslaught of carnage to assault our senses and The Fog shows that you can scare the hell out of people without showing them a lot.
October 29, 2014
Though the plot is implausible and the unfolding story hardly makes any sense, Carpenter stylishly presents an eerie atmosphere for the zombie invasion.
October 23, 2004
The movie's made with style and energy, but it needs a better villain.
August 24, 2013
The Fog is right in line with the types of film Carpenter made before his professional fall from grace: It's unpretentious genre fun, stylishly assembled and populated with colorful characters.
December 15, 2010
Not much gore, but still too intense for kids.
January 31, 2010
During this period, Carpenter and his fine collaborator the late Debra Hill were so good at crafting suspenseful, slow burn horror stories with multiple storylines.
October 27, 2011
... makes the most of the dramatic possibilities inherent in an isolated coastal town, as well as the scare potential of darkness, fog, and silent strangers bearing longshoremen's hooks.
July 21, 2013
A definite top ten holder for me.
October 24, 2008
Orchestrates a thick pall of apprehension and good-time suspense.
December 04, 2016
A completely solid piece of horror filmmaking that's only slightly undone by its flaws as a piece of horror storytelling.
August 01, 2013
Released four years after the Bicentennial, 'The Fog' might be a jaundiced corrective to the often uncritical self-congratulation of America's birthday celebration, with the ghosts as manfestations of manifest destiny's bloody heritage.
