The Fog 1980 - Limited Edition Steelbook 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray 4K UHD

Loved this movie from the 1st time I watched it. Can't tell you how many times I've seen it. Very scary and I love to watch it on a foggy night. Remember, Don't go into the FOG. Read more

Excellent classic movie great story packaging and cover excellent Read more

Ok, for some strange reason I like this movie. Even though The Fog had a relatively small budget of around 900,000 that was increased to about 1.2 million after some additional shots and alterations, I think it turned out ok. John Carpenter directed, his former girlfriend Debra Hill (sadly died of cancer in 05) produced it. Carpenter was riding the wave from his movie Halloween (done in collaboration with Hill) which had a ridiculously low budget of 300,000 but turned into a cult classic and reaped somewhere around 50 million which brought him and Hill notoriety and some breathing room in the movie world. The Fog wasn't the financial killer that Halloween turned out to be but it did ok at the box office. The Fog is about a town called Antonio Bay that was founded one hundred years in the past by some unscrupulous town fathers that tricked a ship full of leppers and their rich benefactor to their demise. The treachery was aided by a fog which came out of nowhere. The cast included Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtiss, Tom Atkins, Adrienne Barbeau, John Houseman and Hal Holbrook. I really liked Hal Holbrook's performance as Father Malone the slightly alcoholic town priest and descendant of one of the original conspirators. Mayhem ensues as the fog rolls into town on its 100th anniversary and starts picking off the descendants of the six original conspirators. Carpenters new wife at the time Adrienne Barbeau plays Stevie Wayne the local radio dj. I liked the movie cause it had a simple but effective story line. It was well casted and not overacted by the actors. The special effects were minimal, the locations and sets were not lavish but they got the job done. The blu-ray has lots of cast commentary and a relatively new interview with Jamie Lee Curtiss from 2013. She states that she doesn't think too much of this movie but was very happy to have done it and appreciates the work Carpenter and Hill gave her. There's even a section in the features that goes to the movie locations to see what they look like now. Debra Hill produced a not very good remake (sorry Deb) of The Fog in 2005 but sadly didn't live long after that. To me the blu-ray of The Fog was worth the price. Read more

They rarely make them like this anymore. This is a classic ghost story come to life and put on film from the team of John Carpenter and Debra Hill who brought us the immortal "Halloween" in 1978 and features many of the original cast and crew from that film and other John Carpenter/Debra Hill alums like Jamie Lee Curtis, the sexy and underrated Nancy Loomis, (who appeared in Carpenter's "Assault On Precinct 13" (1976) and Halloween (1978), Charles Cyphers, cinematographer Dean Cundey, production designer and film editor Tommy Lee Wallace, etc. This is a classic, straight forward ghost story and revenge tale set to moody and haunting music from John Carpenter, once again providing a haunting theme song and atmospheric musical score and soundtrack like he did in his two previous films, Halloween (1978) and Assault On Precinct 13 (1976). This "horror" movie is scary enough with its suspense and good dialogue and creepy plot, unlike nowadays this film doesn't need unnecessary amounts of gore,profanity, torture porn, etc. to compensate for bad actors and third-rate screenplays and directors. Don't even bother wasting your time with the absolutely ludicrous 2005 re-make. Just like Halloween and Assault On Precinct 13, John Carpenter's original versions like "The Fog" are the ones worth watching and re-watching over and over again. The film also stars Carpenter's then-wife Adrienne Barbeau (whom I met once at a book signing and lecture, a really nice and wonderful lady) looking sexy and giving a great performance. Also in the movie veteran actor Hal Holbrook as the guilt-ridden Father Malone, Tom Atkins playing hero "Nick Castle" (another John Carpenter inside joke, his USC film school buddy Nick Castle played Michael Myers in his 1978 Halloween), a spooky cameo by veteran actor John Houseman in the moody prologue scene, and former Hollywood golden age actress,mother of Jamie Lee Curtis and star of the original Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960) Janet Leigh in a wonderful appearance. Also for once, John Carpenter allowed his friend and sexy actress Nancy Loomis to survive the rampage of the attacking ghosts by the end of this movie unlike her two previous Carpenter outings like Halloween and Assault On Precinct 13 where her sexy and attractive but doomed character of Annie Brackett is killed by being stabbed by Michael Myers in the neck and having her body displayed on a bed under Judith Myers' original tombstone in Halloween or her terrified but scheming tight-sweater-clad police station secretary damsel-in-distress Julie being shot in the breasts by a stray silencer pistol bullet from the marauding evil street gang laying siege to the isolated and cut off police station and her body is shown in close-up lying on the floor in a pool of blood with her eyes wide open and a bullet hole perforating from her tight sweater and bosom in Assault On Precinct 13 and sad,tragic,haunting music playing in the background. There are too many good things about "The Fog" I like and Carpenter's other films to list and describe here. The visual style, the sets and locations, mood, suspense, music, atmosphere, cast, everything. The one thing of note that owners of this movie and those who record it on TV and cable and those who rent it online or whatever is a hilarious, bizarre, and as of this date unexplained inside joke from the filmmakers and writers of "The Fog" in one of the opening and key scenes. I stumbled upon this hidden and previously unknown inside joke quite by accident upon a recent re-viewing. In the beginning of the film where Hal Holbrook's character of Father Malone first discovers the secret journal of his grandfather hidden in the walls of the old church, he examines the book and skims through the lost book's pages until he stops at a section where the pages clearly say "Midnight 'Til One Belongs To The Dead." Well, the book is obviously a movie prop, and a clever one at that. Rewind the scene, put it into slow-motion and pause the screen when you see Holbrook's character skim through the pages and he briefly stops at a page with some random writings on it before he gets to the "Midnight "Til One" page. Some of the writings are undecipherable and full of hard-to-read handwriting,, but some are clearly visible and readable and contain some interesting and humorous, scathing, profanity-laden expletives inside jokes and thoughts on the part of whoever wrote it. John Carpenter maybe? He has a wicked sense of humor and it wouldn't surprise me. As of yet, I've tried to obtain information on various multimedia sites about this little-known inside joke in the movie but haven't heard anything yet. Who else knows about this? Read more

Good copy of old favorite movie. Plenty of extra’s to fill interest. Good quality copy of movie. Read more