Plot
The inhabitants of Antonio Island, off the coast of Oregon, are about to unveil a statue honoring the four men (Castle...
Release Year: 2005
Rating: 3.4/10 (19,715 voted)
Critic's Score: 27/100
Director:
Rupert Wainwright
Stars: Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair
Storyline The inhabitants of Antonio Island, off the coast of Oregon, are about to unveil a statue honoring the four men (Castle, Wayne, Williams and Malone) who founded their town in 1871. Nick Castle is one of the descendants of the men, and owns a fishing charter company, using his vessel, the Seagrass, for tourism. When his girlfriend Elizabeth Williams returns to the island after spending six months in New York, a bizarre series of events begin to occur, including several gruesome deaths and the presence of a mysterious fog. When Elizabeth slips in Nick's boathouse and falls into the sea, she finds an old journal from 1871, written by Patrick Malone, one of the town's founders. It tells how a man named Blake bought half the island for use as a leper colony. While bringing his people to Antonio Island in their clipper ship, the Elizabeth Dane, Blake is betrayed by Castle, Wayne, Williams and Malone...
Writers: Cooper Layne, John Carpenter
Cast: Tom Welling
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Nick Castle
Maggie Grace
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Elizabeth Williams
Selma Blair
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Stevie Wayne
DeRay Davis
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Spooner
Kenneth Welsh
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Tom Malone
Adrian Hough
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Father Malone
Sara Botsford
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Kathy Williams
Cole Heppell
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Andy Wayne
Mary Black
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Aunt Connie
Jonathon Young
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Dan The Weatherman
R. Nelson Brown
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Machen
(as Rnelsonbrown)
Christian Bocher
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Founding Father Patrick Malone
Douglas Arthurs
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Founding Father David Williams
(as Douglas H. Arthurs)
Yves Cameron
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Founding Father Richard Wayne
Charles Andre
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Founding Father Norman Castle
(as Charles André)
Filming Locations: Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada
Box Office Details
Budget: $18,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $11,752,917
(USA)
(16 October 2005)
(2972 Screens)
Gross: $29,511,112
(USA)
(20 November 2005)
Technical Specs
Runtime:|
Philippines:
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USA:
(unrated version)
Did You Know?
Trivia: Selma Blair did almost all of her own stunts. For her underwater scenes, she spent 12 hours in a water tank, with only short surface breaks, for two days straight.
Goofs:
Continuity:
When Andy runs from the fog, the sky is light blue. When he runs inside the house and the fog climbs up the door, the sky is black. A shot or two later, the sky is dark blue.
Quotes: Father Malone:
Get off the Island! Elizabeth Williams:
Why? Father Malone:
Just go!
User Review
This movie is really good if you're a complete moron
Rating: 1/10
Allow me to save you $8 by offering something you can do at home that
is just as entertaining as watching this movie. Go get a load of whites
and throw it in your dryer. Now, add in one red sock. (Make sure
everything's dry so you don't end up with a bunch of pink laundry.)
Now, hopefully you have the kind of dryer that has the clear window in
front. If you do, start the load and watch the laundry spin around.
Every time you see the red sock pretend to be scared.
That's it. That's the equivalent to seeing this movie. As entertaining
as watching your laundry dry and every bit as scary as a red sock.
Others have already punched all the holes in the plot (or complete lack
thereof) that are necessary. I won't beat that dead horse. As
mentioned, the acting was completely mailed in. The CGI was hokey,
stilted and throw in in a lot of scenes unnecessarily. This wasn't just
a really bad movie, this was a really bad horror movie. Most horror
movies these days suck to one degree or another, but this moving
distinguishes itself as being among the worst of the worst. Seriously,
save yourself the time and energy and steer clear of The Fog. I haven't
seen a horror movie this bad since I saw the remake of The Haunting.
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.
Release Year: 1980
Rating: 6.8/10 (23,902 voted)
Director:
John Carpenter
Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh
Storyline The Centenary of the small sea town, Antonio Bay, is approaching. While the townsfolk prepare to celebrate, the victims of the crime that founded the town rise from the sea to claim retribution. Under cover of the fog, they carry out their vicious attacks, searching for what is rightly theirs.
Writers: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau
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Stevie Wayne
Jamie Lee Curtis
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Elizabeth Solley
Janet Leigh
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Kathy Williams
John Houseman
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Mr. Machen
Tom Atkins
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Nick Castle
James Canning
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Dick Baxter
Charles Cyphers
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Dan O'Bannon
Nancy Kyes
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Sandy Fadel
(as Nancy Loomis)
Ty Mitchell
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Andy
Hal Holbrook
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Father Malone
John F. Goff
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Al Williams
(as John Goff)
George 'Buck' Flower
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Tommy Wallace
Regina Waldon
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Mrs. Kobritz
Jim Haynie
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Dockmaster
Darrow Igus
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Mel
Taglines:
What you can't see won't hurt you... it'll kill you!
Trivia:
Director Trademark:
[John Carpenter]
[names]
Characters Nick Castle, Dan O'Bannon, Tommy Wallace are all named after Carpenter's real-life collaborators from his previous films. Mrs Kobritz was named after Richard Kobritz, Carpenter's producer on
Someone's Watching Me!.
Goofs:
Continuity:
When we hear Stevie say, "It's 1:00," we are looking at Nick's clock radio. His clock says 1:40.
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.
User Review
Old-fashioned horror movie works like a charm
Rating: 6/10
THE FOG
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Panavision)
Sound format: Mono
While celebrating its centenary birthday, a small Californian coastal
town is visited by a ghostly fog containing an army of murderous
spirits who take revenge for a terrible injustice.
Released on a wave of expectation following the worldwide success of
John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN (1978), THE FOG surprised everyone by
generating only moderate returns at the US box-office, though it's
arguably the better of the two films. Beautifully photographed by
Carpenter stalwart Dean Cundey (BACK TO THE FUTURE, JURASSIC PARK,
etc.), this unassuming 'ghost story' opens on a lonely clifftop at
midnight, where crusty old sea dog John Houseman tells an audience of
wide-eyed children how their home town was built on the foundations of
tragedy. As with HALLOWEEN, the pace is slow but steady, punctuated by
a series of well-judged scares, and there's a relentless accumulation
of details which belies the script's modest ambitions.
Jamie Lee Curtis headlines the movie opposite her real life mother
Janet Leigh, though Hal Holbrook takes the acting honors as a
frightened priest who realizes the town was founded on deception and
murder. As the fog rolls in, the narrative reaches an apocalyptic
crescendo, as the film's principal cast are besieged by zombie-like
phantoms inside an antiquated church, in scenes reminiscent of NIGHT OF
THE LIVING DEAD (1968). Scary stuff, to be sure, though Carpenter was
forced to add new material during post-production in an effort to 'beef
up' the movie's horror quotient, including a memorable late-night
encounter between a fishing boat and the occupants of a ghostly
schooner which looms out of the swirling fog (similar scenes would be
added to HALLOWEEN II in 1981 for the same reasons, though under less
agreeable circumstances). Production values are solid, and Carpenter
cranks up the tension throughout, resulting in a small masterpiece of
American Gothic. Highly recommended.
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