The Fog was John Carpenter and Debra Hill's hotly anticipated follow up to their runaway smash, Halloween, and it offers up a much different story than what moviegoers might have been expecting. Instead of bloodthirsty escaped mental patients coming after babysitters, it features a mature cast of Hollywood veterans who are all the citizens of a small coastal town who are being terrorized by the watery ghosts of those who were unjustly murdered by the people who helped found the town.
Carpenter keeps graphic bloodshed to a minimum and lets Dean Cundey's beautiful cinematography and the stellar ensemble do all the heavy lifting. That said, Rob Bottin's gruesome zombie ghost makeup is impressive.
Carpenter keeps graphic bloodshed to a minimum and lets Dean Cundey's beautiful cinematography and the stellar ensemble do all the heavy lifting. That said, Rob Bottin's gruesome zombie ghost makeup is impressive.