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A well-crafted return to horror for genre giant John Carpenter, The Fog rolls in and wraps viewers in suitably slow-building chills.
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The Fog is an...atmospheric chiller, in which a luminous fog rolls into a Californian seaside town, bringing the ghosts of vengeful sailors, killed in a shipwreck a century before. Nov 2, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The Fog is an...atmospheric chiller, in which a luminous fog rolls into a Californian seaside town, bringing the ghosts of vengeful sailors, killed in a shipwreck a century before.
Ed Potton
It's one of the director's most atmospheric, the shots of a wave-lashed cove and fog-choked headland making the town's impending reckoning almost poetic. Oct 25, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's one of the director's most atmospheric, the shots of a wave-lashed cove and fog-choked headland making the town's impending reckoning almost poetic.
Phil Hoad
Ultimately, it's a John Carpenter movie: concerned with group dynamics, unhelpful authority figures, strong women, the sins of the past, and that moment when helpless isolation shades into outright terror. Oct 24, 2018 | Full Review…
Ultimately, it's a John Carpenter movie: concerned with group dynamics, unhelpful authority figures, strong women, the sins of the past, and that moment when helpless isolation shades into outright terror.
Noel Murray
Carpenter scared the wits out of audiences from coast to coast with Halloween. That was a treat. But The Fog is merely a series of bewitching tricks assembled by a film-school craftsman who believed that he could frighten people with slick gimmickry. Apr 28, 2018 | Full Review…
Carpenter scared the wits out of audiences from coast to coast with Halloween. That was a treat. But The Fog is merely a series of bewitching tricks assembled by a film-school craftsman who believed that he could frighten people with slick gimmickry.
Michael Blowen
"The Fog" is more spooky yarn than streamlined scream machine; it's the sort of crowd pleaser best enjoyed with an audience. Sep 24, 2005 | Full Review…
"The Fog" is more spooky yarn than streamlined scream machine; it's the sort of crowd pleaser best enjoyed with an audience.
J. Hoberman
The movie's made with style and energy, but it needs a better villain. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The movie's made with style and energy, but it needs a better villain.
Roger Ebert
A movie that provides all the cheap thrills any scary movie aficionado would want, without blatant sexism. Aug 14, 2019 | Full Review…
A movie that provides all the cheap thrills any scary movie aficionado would want, without blatant sexism.
Ruth Geller
The story, rhythm, horror, irony, good cinematography, and effective actors make the movie fulfill its expectations. [Full Review in Spanish] Aug 13, 2019 | Full Review…
The story, rhythm, horror, irony, good cinematography, and effective actors make the movie fulfill its expectations. [Full Review in Spanish]
Jesús Fernández Santos
The Fog feels like a ghost story being told around a fire. The kind where you lean in slightly, put your chin on your hands and find yourself lost in the tale. Aug 2, 2019 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
The Fog feels like a ghost story being told around a fire. The kind where you lean in slightly, put your chin on your hands and find yourself lost in the tale.
Karl Delossantos
Let's just hope that your theater and your town don't have any dark secrets that may be carried in along with The Fog. Oct 29, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Let's just hope that your theater and your town don't have any dark secrets that may be carried in along with The Fog.
Sean Mulvihill
The Fog is a wonderfully atmospheric and creepily ominous supernatural horror which gradually builds up a palpable air of tension and terror Oct 29, 2018 | Full Review…
The Fog is a wonderfully atmospheric and creepily ominous supernatural horror which gradually builds up a palpable air of tension and terror
Rob Aldam
The rich color cinematography by Dean Cundey gleams with shadow-drenched goodness in its new digital life, heightening the crisp confidence of Carpenter's Val Lewton-like atmosphere. Oct 26, 2018 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
The rich color cinematography by Dean Cundey gleams with shadow-drenched goodness in its new digital life, heightening the crisp confidence of Carpenter's Val Lewton-like atmosphere.
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