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THE FOG is an awesome horror flick that scared me when I saw it for the first time when I was only 8 years old practically making me afraid of the fog in general, since you cant see through the fog very well in real life, except in John Carpenter's masterpiece of THE FOG was almost like an upgrade of Carpenters 1978 flick HALLOWEEN, since the Michael Myers character seemed to have inspired Carpenter to make this movie(THE FOG).

In addition to that, I've noticed that THE FOG had some co-stars from HALLOWEEN like Jamie-Lee Curtis, Charles Cyphers, and Nancy Loomis.

Therefore, it seemed like THE FOG had just about every co-star that was in HALLOWEEN, except for Donald Pleasance and PJ Soles.

THE FOG also had co-stars from Carpenter's 1981 flick ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK too like Tom Atkins, Adrienne Barbeau, and Charles Cyphers, which reminds me that I noticed that they had used Nick Castle for Tom Atkins character name in this movie as if they got the name as an idea from the actor(Nick Castle) who played Michael Myers in HALLOWEEN and was the writer for ESCAPE FROM N.Y., which was almost as if Nick Castle being an actor and writer had inspired Carpenter to pick that name for a character for one of his films.

I also think HALLOWEEN & THE FOG were probably Carpenters best flicks of all time, especially Carpenters best horror flicks along with the fact that THE FOG had a lot of interesting special effects like the glowing fog and the make-up used on the dead pirate ghosts, etc., plus I liked the eerie creepy heart-pumping music scoring that John Carpenter did in this movie, just like the music composing he did in HALLOWEEN, THE THING, & ESCAPE FROM N.Y.

What I can't help finding kind of odd was THE FOG was actually about a bunch of dead pirate ghosts hidden in the fog setting their sites on a small remote town near Antonio Bay killing people to retrieve their lost cross from a church, which was supposedly the only thing that could get rid of the ghosts who were fogging up the town turning this community upside down, but I was baffled at the end of this movie when the ghosts who were THE FOG returned to the church later on to kill Father Malone(Hal Holbrook) leaving us a cliffhanger making us wonder if those dead pirate ghosts were going to continue or return later to murder more people to get what they wanted.

As a matter of fact, the cliffhanger at the end of THE FOG was a tad similar to the cliffhangers end of the movie HALLOWEEN, since Carpenter used the same kind of strategy by keeping us wondering what else Michael Myers was going to do next in HALLOWEEN, since Michael obviously didn't die at the end of HALLOWEEN even though Michael fell off the balcony after being shot 6 times by his psychatrist Dr. Loomis(Donald Pleasance).

In addition, I would have to say that THE FOG and HALLOWEEN are my 2 favorite John Carpenter films.

This movie was great. The music was eerie and spooky. The atmosphere was moody. The story was entertaining. Need I say more? John Carpenter is a genius at creating unique films full of suspense and mood. THE FOG is a fine example. In the 80's Carpenter could do no wrong. He directed and shot brilliantly(panavision, widescreen, POV, wide angle shots from eye level) and he scored his films brilliantly. Check out the rest of his 80's cinema Fantastique! ( ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, THE THING, CHRISTINE,STARMAN,BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS,
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