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Movie of the day…The Fog (1980). An excellent John Carpenter horror film, very typical of his style. Long ago, the passengers of a ship, lepers, were murdered by townsfolk who did not want them to build a colony nearby. They caused the ship to crash on the rocks during a dense fog, drowning all of those on board. Now, a hundred years later, the fog has rolled into the town of Antonio Bay once again, and the ghosts are coming for revenge. Will anyone survive?

Carpenter employs a lot of his usual techniques to very good effect here. His “less is more” approach, relying on atmosphere rather than bloody special effects, and his use of a minimalist score combined with cinematography full of shadows, fog, and so on to create dread and anxiety, is on full display here.

Rating: A-