So how long has it ben since you’ve seen this bad boy? I’m betting on quite a while. I’m not sure when this will get published but, earlier today, I started doing a write up of {NOT POSTED YET CAN’T SPOIL} for a special piece that will hopefully have published before now but, in it, I mentioned that it sure is different seeing something that you loved as kid 30 years later and look at with new / old eyes and white hairs in your red beard. Thinking about that, when this came out I was X years old and my hair was a lovely late 70s long and red. I’ve gotten lucky, being red headed and watch my friends get gray before me but… now… : (.
Anyway, THE FOG as a kid scared the shit out of me, but not as much as Halloween. It was awesome but not as awesome as ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK about which I have had writer’s block for a month (I might not ever finish that at this rate). With that said, watching this as an adult, I get a better appreciation for it and the way it was made and “scripts” and acting and dialogue and such and I Say to Thee that this is a good movie. A real good one. But, in the end, it’s still not as wicked as some of it’s peers. I want to say “don’t ever watch the remake”, but when I watched it I was pissed and then got pissed that the remake sucked so much and now I can’t recall much about it other than Tom Welling was in it. : |
If you’re not familiar with the first one, Johnny C and his group of actors he collaborates with made a movie about a small town in California that’s cursed. Cursed in that the dead and murdered leper sailors from 100 years back are going to come back AND GET REVENGE!!!! Stab in the eye!! Chop with a sickle!! Cut off YO head!!! SIX MUST DIE the ghosts write. Why?? WHY?? WHY???!?? Well, ole Hal Holbrook and his drunken preacher self finds his grandpappy’s old journal and then we know why! I won’t ruin it for you because that’s part of the fun when he and Janet Leigh get that figured out.
Also in for the fun is one of my favorite actors ever, Tom Atkins and Jamie Lee Curtis gets to act with her mom. Another thing that I get now that I am old is the appreciation of things like this:
Jamie Lee’s Character: They sure did drink a lot of beer last night.
Atkins’ character: Every night.
Lee: What’s it like?
Atkins: It’s the same every time, eventually the walls start to spin and then you pas…
Lee: I mean what’s it like being a sailor?
Atkins: OH, well… you do a lot of drinking.
Totally serious and deadpan. I love shit like that.
What else do we have to report on here? Adrienne Barbeau is as hot as ever. One of the chicks from ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 is here. That scene with Barbaeau up on top of the lighthouse was actually, kind of, thrilling and Atkins is FANTASTIC. Seeing him in this has totally pushed up a watch of Night of the Creeps to “soon”. “The good news is your dates are here. The bad news is they’re dead.” Love it!
I find it prudent to say that this is always good for a watch or two. You’re not going to go wrong by pulling this VHS out of the box in the attic and plugging it in I mean downloading it.
