The Fog

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Discoveries, Inc./ Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........John Carpenter (Body Bags, Christine, Halloween)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Debra Hill & John Carpenter (Halloween, Halloween II)</B></div> <div> <B>Music............John Carpenter (Halloween)</B></div> <div> <B></B></div> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Nick Castle......Tom Atkins (Halloween III, Lethal Weapon, Maniac Cop)</B></div> <div> <B>Kathy Williams...Janet Leigh (Harper, Houdini, Little Women, Psycho)</B></div> <div> <B>Father Malone....Hal Holbrook (Creepshow, Rituals, The Unholy,The Firm) </B></div> <div> <B>Sandy Fadel......Nancy Loomis (Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween)</B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Machen.......John Houseman (The Babysitter, Ghost Story, Our Town)</B></div> <div> <B>Dan O'Bannon.....Charles Cyphers(Halloween, Halloween II, Hunter's Blood)</B></div> <div> <B>Andy.............Ty Mitchell</B></div> <div> <B>Dick Baxter......James Canning (The Boys in Company C)</B></div> <div> <B>Al Williams......John Goff </B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Kobritz.....Regina Walton</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Wow! A scary horror movie! Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis and Charles Cyphers are a happy combination, exchange John Houseman for Donald Pleasance, throw in Janet Leigh (Psycho) and Adrien Barbeau and Hal Holbrook, who sparkled together in "Creepshow" (The Crate) and you've got a cast that could hardly be squeamish. Reminiscent of Colderige's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." A thousand thousand slimy things lived on" and so did grandfather Malone, alone. Mrs. Colbridge, the bright eyes of the mariners "Why not I?"  The celebration to celebrate the founding of Antonio Bay and the founding fathers on the night of the celebration the fog rolls in thick. A mysterious bank of fog spreads over Antonio Bay. Is there something in the fog that glows? The ancient mariner arrives to finish him off. Stories are told all the time in this one. That does create a mood. What is scarier than Colerige's uninvited bright eyed marineer at a wedding? How about twenty of them, drowned dead with leprosy to boot, uninvited at you centennial? Glowing eyed pirate. The setting in Coleridge is a celebration. The ice was here the ice was there the ice was all around. The albatross: through the fog it came. Twas right thought they to slay the bird that brought the fog and mist. The Albatross like lead sunk into the sea, like the men of the Elizabeth Dane. The same year, Houseman and Holbrook appeared together in Our Town. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: The Elizabeth Dane Ghost story (a good movie to show at 11:55 pm on 20 April) One hundred years ago. Journal of Patrick Malone. 1880 Antonio Bay at Spivey Point. In a blanket of fog  A camp fire drew the Elizabeth Dane to the shore--it was taken as a beacon--she was broken up on the reef. When the fog rolls in on 20 April, the men of the Elizabeth Dane rise up to search for the camp fire that led them to their dark and icy death. Father Malone finds his grandfather's diary in a wall of the church at midnight. Bells toll. Telephones are mysteriously ringing. Car alarms are going off and Dogs are barking at the sea. It's April 20th midnight at Antonio Bay. Stevie Wayne is late night disk jockey on WKAB lighthouse radio happy birthday Antonio bay. Nick picks up a hitchhiker, Elizabeth, and suddenly the windows burst in his car. What's going on?  A sighter picks up a fog bank rolling in from the east. The  men of the Seagrass head in to shore to avoid the fog bank. But there's something very wrong with this thick fog. Is that a ship in the fog? Knife and cutlass plunge in the darkness. There's a knocking at Nick's door. Just when he gets to the door, one O'clock tolls, and suddenly the knocker just isn't there. Little Andrew sees what he thinks is a coin, but then finds a plank washed up on shore. The worn inscription "Dane" is still legible on the plank. The Seagrass hasn't responded to attempts to contact her. Nick takes Elizabeth out to search for the Seagrass. They locate her foundering. Nick's father found a case like this. His father a ship like this. Father Malone reads the diary to Mrs. Williams. Blake's leper colony wants to move to Antonio Bay. They take the Elizabeth Dane on the way to settle there. Malone tries to assuage his conscience by using the money to build a church. Priest took money to finance town. Town people kill Blake for money to become township. Over the radio, blood-water is dripping from the Dane-plank, and when that water hits the radio, out groans the words "an albatross like a millstone' Stevie is spooked. She tells Andrew to stay with Mrs. "Colbridge" and not look for any more planks. The corpse that they dragged from the Seagrass was deep frozen, drowned and covered with algae. He is in the state of someone down for a month. A descendent of the founders is to make the keynote address for the celebration. A fog bank is moving toward old Russell Mill road. There's something about this fog--it glows. And now the light's gone out. Stevie calls over the radio that her son is trapped. Mrs. Colbridge has already been slashed. Andrew gets picked up by Nick and Elizabeth. Here come the dark shapes in the fog. Jamie Lee gets it into reverse. The fog is moving inland away from the beach toward Antonio bay. Stevie's saying the best way to avoid the fog is to head toward the old church--built from the money stolen from the men of the Elizabeth Dane. Father Malone hauls out a cross smelted from the gold of the Elizabeth Dane. He admits that his grandfather stole it. He accepts that he's the sixth conspirator. Six must die. The gold glows white hot in Father Malone's hands. The gold seems to satisfy the men of the Dane, for the fog recedes and the trapped at the church return home. But as Malone ponders why Blake took only five rather than six, his ghastly crew reappears in Malone's church and Blake slays him with an hook.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>