The Fog (1980)

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Year1980
CountryUSA
TypeMovie
Runtime89m
CastAdrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Tom Atkins, James Canning, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Kyes, Ty Mitchell, Hal Holbrook
KeywordsGothic, Zombie

Review

""The Fog" orchestrates a thick pall of apprehension and good-time suspense as the murderous motives of the ghosts in the fog are uncovered and the climax works itself out. An attack on Stevie at the lighthouse is tautly filmed, as is a set-piece where Andy and his elderly babysitter are accosted in her home by the enveloping stratus clouds. Like any great story to tell around a fire on a chilly night, "The Fog" ends with the portentous notion that it may return. "If this has been anything but a nightmare, and if we don't wake up to find ourselves safe in our beds," Stevie surmises, "it could come again."" - Dustin Putman, The Movie Boy

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