Midnight Screenings 2019 / The Fog / USA 1980
The quiet seaside town of Antonio Bay is celebrating its 100th anniversary, but nobody knows that the town’s founders committed a heinous crime. Now, a hundred years later, a fog returns to town, bringing with it the ghosts of murdered sailors seeking revenge…
“Eleven fifty-five. Almost midnight. Enough time for one more story.” Even this lesser-known horror flick is filled with cult American director John Carpenter’s favorite themes. A fog forms over a California seaside town, shrouding a mysterious and incomprehensible evil. But the six murderous pirate ghosts that arrived with it have not come willy-nilly – the town’s inhabitants must pay for the sins of their forebears. Isolated from the rest of the world, with the local radio station their only means of communication, a group of unexpected heroes must fight to save themselves and everyone else. Eschewing scenes of gore, the film instead creates a sense of creeping terror through a minimalist atmosphere based primarily on sound and music – as usual, composed by Carpenter himself.
Nikola Paggio
94 min / Color, DCP
Director John Carpenter
/ Screenplay John Carpenter, Debra Hill
/ Dir. of Photography Dean Cundey
/ Music John Carpenter
/ Editor Charles Bornstein, Tommy Lee Wallace
/ Art Director Tommy Lee Wallace
/ Producer Debra Hill
/ Production Debra Hill Productions
/ Cast Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh
/ Sales Tamasa Distribution
John Carpenter (b. 1948, Carthage, New York). Selected filmography: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Starman (1984), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Vampires (1998), The Ward (2010)
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