The Fog (Special Edition) | 
| Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  284 reviews
Sales Rank: 23385
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Original Recording Remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD12482D
ISBN: 1404996605
UPC: 027616124821
EAN: 9781404996601
ASIN: B000AM6OQ2
Theatrical Release Date: February 8, 1980
Release Date: October 4, 2005
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Horror master John Carpenter offers up a triple treat with The Fog: Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau, and Janet Leigh all in the same movie. As if that weren't enough, both John Houseman and Hal Holbrook make appearances, each clearly enjoying the novelty of being in a horror flick. The Fog opens just before the centennial celebration of the seaside town of Antonio Bay. Then the witching hour strikes, glowing fog rolls in, and all hell breaks loose. Carpenter wrote the script with producer Debra Hill, his collaborator on Halloween, and the two know their craft. It's a creepy story and a tight script, and, as in their previous effort, the audience gets to know the main characters a bit before they're put in danger. The movie also has a sly sense of humor: "Things seem to happen to me," says slasher vet Jamie Lee. "I'm bad luck." Barbeau is also obviously having a great time, sinking her teeth into her role as a frightened disc jockey watching the fog roll in from a lighthouse. The Fog offers a few shocks and plenty of good old-fashioned clammy chills. You'll never look at weather systems the same way again. --Ali Davis
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 Avoid answering a knock at your door during the witching hour May 10, 2009
Monkdude (Hampton, Virginia)
I am a big 70's and 80's John Carpenter fan and The Fog is probably my third favorite film from him. The horror master blends atmosphere, music and chills like no one else. Halloween and The Thing are constantly fighting for first place, but this hair-raising ghost tale is close behind those two. The setting (isolated fishing town), creepy story, one of my favorite musical scores and some revenge seeking pirate ghosts make The Fog a movie worthy of much more praise than most people seem to remember. I try to watch it at least once a year around Halloween time. It just gets me in the mood for my favorite holiday. Too bad John Carpenter hasn't made a decent movie in decades, but the three I mentioned in my review and even Christine (a pretty good effort) are horror flicks I admire everytime I watch them. They don't make them like this anymore.
"A Better Than Average Horror Film" May 8, 2009
Terry Richard (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After "Halloween" became the biggest independent thriller of all-time in 1978, producers John Carpenter and Debra Hill set out to see if lightning could strike twice with "The Fog". Hitting theatres in 1979, the film wasn't as big a hit as its predecessor, but nevertheless "The Fog" has lived on as being one of the scariest films of the 1970's. "The Fog" is about a seaside town called Antonio Bay that is blanketed by a huge fogbank one cool summer night. People are murdered and all hell breaks loose as this small coastal town tries to survive the evil that lurks around them. Jamie Lee Curtis, who starred in "Halloween", also stars in this blockbuster, along with her mother, one of the screen's greatest stars Janet Leigh. Adrienne Barbeau, who became a TV star in "Maude", also stars as a disc jockey working in a lighthouse who witnesses the fog descending on the town and its inhabitants. The film is really scary, not in the sense that its filled with a lot of gore, but in the fact that not knowing what is in the fog makes things that more terrifying.
This DVD contains a ton of bonuses, including a documentary on the film with its stars, outtakes, audio commentary by the producers, and much more.
"Newsweek" calls the film "crisply chilling" and "The Film Journal" says, "The Fog" is "a tale of nocturnal terror".
Columbia released a remake of "The Fog" in 2006, and it is a great film worth of owning.
Absolute classic! May 6, 2009
The Tao of Netflix (Washington, DC)
This movie is clearly one of the best horrors of all time. Consistent with Carpenter direction, it starts of a little slowly, but really amps up near the end. Keep in mind this is over 20 years old, so modern concepts of special effects are glaringly absent, but it still does a great job without being cheesy.
Best Horror Flick Ever Made April 10, 2009
Elizabeth Price (new york)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Fog (Special Edition)
Some viewers are hard to please. They don't appreciate a movie like this that has more horror in it than most creepshows combined. It's a matter of what is important to notice and what isn't. The fog and the ghost ship manifest between 12 am and 1 am. The reason Nick and Elizabeth didn't get killed was because 1:00 am came and all that happened was the shattering of the glass in the clock. There are unanswered questions. Did the ghosts kill everyone in the town before breaking into the church? Did they kill the ones who appeared to survive when the fog left after Father Malone returned the gold? There were 6 conspirators who caused the death of Blake and the other members of the leper colony. Who were the descendants besides Father Malone? Was he a Roman Catholic Priest? And if so, how could he be the grandson of a Roman Catholic Priest? Elizabeth (Jamie Lee Curtis) comes from out of nowhere as a hitchhiker at the start of the movie. The name "Elizabeth" is also the name of the ship that sunk with the avenging crew on it. What was she doing in Antonio Bay on that day? Was it a coincidence? Father Malone, 100 years ago, who took part in the murder plot, writes in his journal "If it were possible for me to raise the dead....." and apparently it was. The disturbances in town like the lights and phones and car horns going on and off were a form of telekinesis brought on by the emergence of bad energies being reawakened after 100 years. The town was formed on the gold and blood of the sad leper colony. Is this story trying to tell us that there are towns, cities, communities, schools, political powers and industries that were built on the blood and theft of a group of unknown murdered people? And if so, what lies ahead.....revenge by unseen forces more invisible than the ghosts in the fog? Food for thought.
The classic of all Vague Terror gets some specific extras. March 16, 2009
Jason (Nevada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In addition to the practical audio commentary by John Carpenter, there's also a generous amount of fun making-of features and documentaries on the DVD including production sketches and script-to-storyboard comparisons. But the real bonus here is you get to hear from executive producer/screenwriter Deborah Hill on the commentary track. You could say the Carpenter/Hill team was the fortuitous match who struck gold with Halloween. On the audio track, she shares all the ups and downs with this follow-up production and how they were successfully pressured by the studio to tweak its classic, mannered tone by filming new gory scenes for an audience that supposedly wanted more blood and violence. Carpenter was nothing if not generous.
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