The Fog (1980)

Director:

John Carpenter

Writers:

John Carpenter (written by) &
Debra Hill (written by)

Release Date:

8 febrero 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Frase comercial:

What you can't see won't hurt you... it'll kill you!

Plot:

A Northern California fishing town, built 100 years ago over an old leper colony, is the target for revenge by a killer fog containing zombie-like ghosts seeking revenge for their deaths.

Plot Keywords:

Crucifix | Electronic Music Score | Stained Glass Window | Ghoul | Young Boy

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A film that is truly terrifying?!? …It exists and it's named `the Fog'

Cast

Adrienne Barbeau	...	Stevie Wayne
Jamie Lee Curtis	...	Elizabeth Solley
Janet Leigh	...	Kathy Williams
John Houseman	...	Mr. Machen
Tom Atkins	...	Nick Castle
James Canning	...	Dick Baxter
Charles Cyphers	...	Dan O'Bannon
Nancy Kyes	...	Sandy Fadel (as Nancy Loomis)
Ty Mitchell	...	Andy Wayne
Hal Holbrook	...	Father Robert Malone
John F. Goff	...	Al Williams (as John Goff)
George 'Buck' Flower	...	Tommy Wallace
Regina Waldon	...	Mrs. Kobritz
Jim Haynie	...	Hank Jones
Darrow Igus	...	Mel Sloan

También conocida como:

John Carpenter's The Fog (USA) (complete title)
Niebla, La (Spain) [es]

Duración:

89 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Canada:AA (Ontario) (original rating) | Iceland:16 | West Germany:16 (f) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario) (re-rating) (2002) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Norway:16 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Altadena, California, USA

Company:

AVCO Embassy Pictures

Trivialidades:

The role of Father Malone was originally offered to Christopher Lee who believed the character to be the 'father of the community'. However Lee proved unavailable and Hal Holbrook was eventually cast.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): As Stevie is describing the movement of Fog, at first she says it is moving southeast along the coast, but then in the next sentence she says it is moving southwest.

Quotes:

Stevie Wayne: Well, my gauges must be wrong. I've got a wind blowing due east. Now what kind of a fog blows against the wind?
Dan O'Bannon: You got me.
Stevie Wayne: I'm not so sure I want you.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Hollow Man (2000)

A film that is truly terrifying?!? …It exists and it's named `the Fog'

A solid, powerful story…slowly developing and photographed with a unique sense for tension. THAT is `The Fog'. This story will leave a big impression on you and it's easily John Carpenter's best and most effective horror film. His most underrated as well, since people always refer to `Halloween' and `The Thing' when listing his best accomplishments as a director. Personally, I think The Fog is much more haunting and fascinating than these two, and it's one of the very few films that still scares me after all these years. Uniquely set in a small coast-town called Antonio Bay, where the inhabitants are preparing the celebrations for the town's hundredth anniversary. Only, they do not know that the genesis of their town went together with a devilish conspiracy, resulting in the unfortunate death of many seamen. These doomed victims rise again now, suddenly appearing from mysterious fogbanks that come from the ocean. If you're – like me - a sucker for ghostly myths set in abandoned surrounding, The Fog will be one of your most satisfying purchases ever. Carpenter brilliantly builds up an unbearable tension through simple methods, like long shots of an isolated countryside and a chilling musical score (not as famous as his `Halloween' score but equally effective). The bloodshed and images of cold-hearted monsters are kept to a minimum in order to leave it up to your own imagination. And for once, this actually works! The detailed sequences in which the town gets surrounded by an inescapable fog is more than horrific enough. Forget about all the overblown, big-budgeted and so-called `horrifying' films… This little, overlooked production scares the hell out of people since more than 20 years already. And it'll keep on doing so for yet another very long time!