THE FOG

Showings

Chauncey -Theater 1 Wed, Oct 2, 2019 10:00 PM
Series Info
Series:Late Shift at the Grindhouse
Film Info
Rating:R
Runtime:89 minutes
Director:John Carpenter (Halloween)
Year Released:1980
Production Country:USA
Language:English

Description

Wednesdays get weird when Late Shift hosts Ross Meyer, Joe Derderian and Aaron Holmgren dig up low-budget b-movies, horror and gore-fests, and camp classics for your viewing pleasure. Buy your ticket and take a ride in our Time Machine! Punch in and earn a bonus! $3 Big Grove Boomtown Ale tallboys and $2 small popcorn! PLUS -- special custom trash trailer reel curated by Ross with cheap swag and prize giveaways!

"John Carpenter, who after the commercial success of Halloween soon crossed over to studio pictures, is still a frequent visitor to the horror genre. His wonderful spook story The Fog has enjoyed a well-deserved reappraisal in recent years."
- Stephen Thrower, Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents

"Some good scares and a competent cast offered up some decent chills along the way." - Ken Kish, Cinema Wasteland

"In the decades since The Fog debuted, Carpenter has made a wide enough variety of films - action, science-fiction, social satire and more - that this particular picture no longer seems like a departure. Ultimately, it's a John Carpenter movie: concerned with group dynamics, unhelpful authority figures, strong women, the sins of the past, and that moment when helpless isolation shades into outright terror." - Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times

Fog is nothing new to the quaint seaside village of Antonio Bay. But on the night of its 100th anniversary, a fog bank rolls in unlike any other. Eerie lights, dark figures, and the masts of an ancient schooner appear in the swirling mists, and soon the specters of long-murdered sailors descend upon the town. Using knife, hook and sword, they exact revenge for sins committed by the town's founding fathers, leaving horrified survivors struggling to solve a hundred-year crime. And they must solve it - or die.

Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook, John Carpenter's The Fog is classic horror at its terrifying best.