DRIVEN-IN SATURDAY
Director John Carpenter surprised a lot of people with Halloween, a $300,000 movie that grossed $50 million. With his eagerly awaited follow-up, The Fog, he won’t reverse the process, but he’s pressing his luck. The Fog is a high budget flick that deserves to go down the tubes, but everybody knows: fog floats.
DRIVEN-IN SATURDAY
Triple Feature!
by
Edouard Dauphin
Director John Carpenter surprised a lot of people with Halloween, a $300,000 movie that grossed $50 million. With his eagerly awaited follow-up, The Fog, he won’t reverse the process, but he’s pressing his luck. The Fog is a high budget flick that deserves to go down the tubes, but everybody knows: fog floats.
Set in Northern California—where most people are in a perpetual fog—this is an overblown ghost story about a doomed ship’s crew from a hundred years ago that returns to take vengeance on a coastal town. The ship’s passengers are inmates from a leper colony and something is definitely eatingthem.
So far, so good. The prospect of any part of California being wiped off the map is okay with me. The havoc begins with a lot of glass breaking, doors slamming, gas pumps inexplicably leaking—standard horror fare—as a dense fogbank rolls in to completely envelop the town .Too bad it didn’t envelop the movie: