Review #256: The Fog (1980)
This review was originally written in October 2023. Gabe's Horror Movie October Review #10 - The Fog (1980) The Fog is a movie about a small coastal town that is beset upon by a mysterious glowing fog on the eve of its centennial, and with the fog comes ghostly figures intent on taking revenge for a long-forgotten theft. I'd never seen this movie, but when it got remade in the 2000s I heard a lot of people dismissively say, "Oh, it's about ghost pirates" which like... isn't entirely inaccurate, but that's quite a reductive way to refer to this film (and I presume the remake as well). This isn't a particularly deep or complex movie, but I really enjoyed it. I thought the setting was spooky and atmospheric, the music really set the tone (even if it sounded more than a little bit like the music from the Halloween series, which makes sense considering the director), the cast members each did a fine job, and the effects were good if a bit understated (appa...