History Film / TheFog

[[TheRemake It has been remade in 2005]], starring Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Selma Blair. The remake tries to create more connections between the characters and also tries to expand on a few plot points from the original.

[[TheRemake It has been remade in 2005]], starring Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Selma Blair. The remake tries to create more connections between the characters and also tries to expand on a few plot points from the original.

'''''The Fog''''' is a 1980 movie by Creator/JohnCarpenter, his first feature after [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} a certain film]], starring JamieLeeCurtis and her mother, [[Film/{{Psycho}} Janet Leigh]], Nancy Loomis, John Houseman and others.

A small coastal Californian town is menaced by a mysterious fog as the town's foundation's 100th anniversary approaches... and the fog wants victims...

%%* AxeBeforeEntering

%%* UsefulNotes/{{California}}
* CastingGag: Mother and daughter Janet Leigh and JamieLeeCurtis. Also ''Halloween'' co-stars Nancy Loomis and Charles Cyphers in addition to Curtis. All three interacted a lot in ''Halloween'' but are almost completely separate in this.

%%* DangerousWindows

* DisappearedDad: Stevie is a single parent with no explanation given.
%%* EightiesHair: Ooh boy.

%%* EyeScream
%%* FailedASpotCheck

* GhostPirate: None of them actually appear in the movie, but one is added to the DVD release's menus.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the murders. Infact, there is no violence in the movie.

* HystericalWoman: Subverted. Stevie's panic slowly starts to increase but she keeps her act together long enough to warn people about the fog and to fight off the pirates, and this is JustifiedTrope when its taken into consideration that she is trapped in a lighthouse while her home and her son are left at the mercy of undead pirates and all she can do is spread warnings over the radio.
%%* ImpromptuTracheotomy
%%* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt
%%* InfantImmortality
%%* JumpScare

* LighthousePoint: The place from which Stevie transmits.

* OneSteveLimit: Curious example. One of the characters is called Elizabeth and the ship the ghosts were killed on was named the ''Elizabeth Dane''. No connection, [[spoiler: different story in the remake]].
%%* PeekABooCorpse
%%* SceneryPorn

%%* TokenMinority: Mel.
%%* TownWithADarkSecret

%%* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve
%%* WithDueRespect: Sandy.

[[TheRemake It has been remade in 2005]], starring Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Selma Blair.

** [[spoiler:In the remake Elizabeth Williams, played by Maggie Grace, is revealed to be the reincarnation of the woman Blake loved when he was alive, and she becomes her ancestor at the end and disappears into the fog with Blake while her her lover Nick, played by Tom Welling, can only watch in horror. He lives on with all the other survivors, but the woman ''he'' loved is gone.]]

* AxeBeforeEntering

* UsefulNotes/{{California}}

* DangerousWindows

* EightiesHair: Ooh boy.

* EyeScream
* FailedASpotCheck

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Blake's (the leader of the ghosts) eyes.
** RedEyesTakeWarning

* ImpromptuTracheotomy
* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt
* InfantImmortality
* JumpScare

* PeekABooCorpse
* SceneryPorn
* ShoutOut: TheCoroner's name is [[TheAbominableDrPhibes Dr. Phibes]].

* TokenMinority: Mel.
* TownWithADarkSecret

* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve
* WithDueRespect: Sandy.

* TheMockbuster: Oliver Krekel's ''Fog
- Revenge of the Executed''.

* TheMockbuster: Oliver Krekel's ''Fog
- Revenge of the Executed''.

* RealLifeRelative: Janet Leigh and JamieLeeCurtis.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the murders.

'''''The Fog''''' is a 1980 movie by JohnCarpenter, his first feature after [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} a certain film]], starring JamieLeeCurtis and her mother, [[Film/{{Psycho}} Janet Leigh]], Nancy Loomis, John Houseman and others.

* HopeSpot: When Blake is given the cross [[spoiler:it glows brightly and dissipates the fog, saving Stevie and the others.]] However, in the final scene, [[spoiler:the ghosts return to the church, and Blake delivers the deathblow himself to Father Malone, the sixth and ultimate victim.]]

A 1980 movie by JohnCarpenter, his first feature after [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} a certain film]], starring JamieLeeCurtis and her mother, [[Film/{{Psycho}} Janet Leigh]], Nancy Loomis, John Houseman and others.

* {{California}}

* GhostlyChill: The ghosts cause the temperature to drop sharply when they appear (the thermometer on the ''Seagrass'' was stuck at twenty degrees).

* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The ghosts cause the temperature to drop sharply when they appear (the thermometer on the ''Seagrass'' was stuck at twenty degrees).

* GhostShip

* HooksAndCrooks: Most of the ghosts are armed with hooks.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Blake's (the leader of the ghosts) eyes.

* VampireInvitation: If the fog can't come inside, the ghosts can't either unless you let them.

* AttackOfTheTownFestival: Subverted as Antonio Bay's birthday festival is canelled due to power malfunction [[spoiler: caused by the fog]].

* CreatorCameo: John Capenter appears early in the movie as Bennett.

* {{Diary}}: Father Malone's grandfather' journal provides exposition.

* 80sHair: Ooh boy.

* HauntedTechnology: Ghosts presence is first experienced when various technology goes haywire.
* HollywoodDensity: For a man his age, Father Malone sure is strong [[spoiler: to be able to carry like this a big solid gold cross]]

* HopeSpot: When Blake is given the cross [[spoiler:It glows brightly and disappates the fog, saving Stevie and the others.]] However, in the final scene, [[spoiler:the ghosts return to the church, and Blake delivers the deathblow himself to Father Malone, the sixth and ultimate victim.]]

* MythologyGag: Many of the characters are named after notable people John Carpenter has worked with such as Nick Castle (played Michael Myers in ''Halloween''), Tommy Wallace (the film's editor)and Dan O'Bannon (a fellow screenwriter).

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Blake's (the leader of ghosts) eyes.

* WeatherDissonance: The titular fog moves against the wind.

A 1980 movie by JohnCarpenter, his first feature after [[Film/{{Halloween}} a certain film]], starring JamieLeeCurtis and her mother, [[Film/{{Psycho}} Janet Leigh]], Nancy Loomis, John Houseman and others.

* DropWhatYouAreDoing

A 1980 movie by JohnCarpenter, his first feature after [[Film/{{Halloween}} a certain film]], starring JamieLeeCurtis and her mother, [[{{Psycho}} Janet Leigh]], Nancy Loomis, John Houseman and others.

* ShoutOut: TheCoroner's name is [[TheAbominableDrPhibes Dr. Phibes]].
** Mr. Machen is an homage to fantasy writer Arthur Machen (mispronounced, mind you). There are Lovecraft references in the place names "Arkham Reef" and "Whateley." Nick Castle is named for the regular Carpenter collaborator who played Michael Myers the first time out.
* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler: The ghosts in the fog want revenge for having been lured to their death so the town's founders could steal their gold]].