![]() ![]() ![]() It does lack that visceral thrill that made Halloween so special. Dean Cundey's cinematography stuns and Carpenter's eerie synth score spooks, but one can't help feel that something is missing. Even more surprising is that Jamie Lee Curtis, Carpenter's star of Halloween, is in only about 15 to 20 minutes of the film and has no real character to speak of. It's almost like if Robert Altman decided to make an ensemble horror film. There's really no major main character (even Adrienne Barbeau's Stevie Wayne - a radio DJ - disappears for large chunks of the film and never interacts with most of the other characters in the film). The Fog has an excellent ensemble cast which is one of its strong suits and also, perhaps, one of its downfalls. The lepers are back and they want revenge. It's a urban legend-simple ghost story about a small coastal town celebrating its anniversary, forgetting that they only claimed the town because they murdered a shipful of lepers. ![]() It's surprising that John Carpenter followed up Halloween with such a different tale of terror, but he did just that with 1980's The Fog. ![]()
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