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The Fog ~ Film Review
When living in the present, it’s sometimes difficult to reflect on how things were done in the past. I’ve heard stories about adults running out of theaters when they watched The Exorcist. I heard about people fainting when The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was played. There were children and adults alike sleeping with one eye open and praying that morning would come, so they didn’t have to be afraid anymore.
With time, these stories faded into legend and began to soak into our own present lives. If we were the same people that our parents or grandparents were, then horror classics would terrify us, but there are many films from the past that don’t scare us as they did for our ancestors. Sadly, The Fog is a perfect case of a movie being scary in the past, but not so much in the present.
The movie is set in a California fishing town known as Antonio Bay. This city is celebrating its centennial and has a rich history involving greed, death, and deceit. As the centennial approaches, weird things happen, and a fog begins to creep into the town. Naturally, inside this Fog is sickly ghosts who kill, and it’s up to the radio DJ (Adrienne Barbeau), the hitchhiker (Jamie Lee Curtis), the priest (Hal Holbrook), and many others to figure out a way to survive. The cast is loaded with stars, and the director (John Carpenter) was coming off his sensational hit, Halloween. When you have such…
