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Slant’s 100 Greatest Horror Films – 2018 Edition (100 movies items)"In the first shot of John Carpenter’s underrated follow-up to Halloween, a crusty campfire-side storyteller snaps a pocket watch shut with a start, a gesture that announces Carpenter’s intentions to unfurl his pirate ghost story on his own anachronistic timetable. Tinged with pioneer American folklore even as it delivers the wormy goods (reportedly at the studio’s behest), The Fog is at its best when it strips away the mechanics and focuses on atmospheric locations, uncannily imbalanced co"
Movies I've seen in 2017
Films that did not need a remake.
2017 Movie Journal
Movies Watched in 2017
1980 : My Favorite Horror Films (11 movies items)" Directed By John Carpenter Starring Adrienne Barbeau / Jamie Lee Curtis / Janet Leigh Tom Atkins / Hal Holbrook / John Houseman "
Movies viewed in 2017 (338 movies items)"24/7/17 John Carpenter's creepy ghost story about a small coastal town that gets engulfed in a fog, bringing with it the spirits of a pirate ship. A master class in how to make a scary movie, with Carpenter refusing to go for cheap thrills and graphic gore, instead of leaving it up to the imagination. If you can get over just how quickly Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Atkins gets together, this is a terrific chiller."
Lessons To Be Learned From Horror Films (570 movies items)"Curses are meant to be taken, serious. Stealing from pirates, and failing to save them during a storm? You're cursed! Bitten by a werewolf? You're cursed! Get the idea?"
My Movie Diary 2017
Childhood Nightmares (73 movies items)"Pirate Ghosts I know that they don't really exist, but try telling that to me, as a kid. It didn't help matters, that they come out of a fog, either. "
