The Fog

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Yet the lives at this beach house are anything but simple; everything is complicated and tangled. Kathy, a recovering addict and cleaning woman by trade, inherits a bungalow that receives notices about business tax evasion. She never opens the mail, even when the county sends several envelopes announcing an auction sale of her house. The County has the wrong house, but no one knows this. Not even the former political refugee and immigrant, Behrani, a Persian exile who has bought the house for his family. While in America, Behrani, a former wealthy Colonel, works two jobs as a roadside garbage man and at a convenience store and yet he tries to maintain his standard of living so that his daughter marries into privilege. When he sees the house for sale, he buys it, quits his jobs, and tries to settle on a path of real estate development. Blake and the ghosts are never fully shown onscreen and are always shrouded in too much fog and shadow make out anything other than a dark silhouette. When Stevie is cornered on the top of the lighthouse by one, she gets a glimpse of its face, and what little we see of its cheek is puke green and riddled with worms. Even when more of Blake can be made out at the very end, the only really discernible thing about him are his stringy hair and Glowing Eyelights of Undeath. Chill of Undeath: Whenever the fog's influence takes hold in an area, characters will comment on how the air has suddenly gotten cold, such as when it reanimates Tommy's corpse in the morgue. I will admit that as the book started, the pacing felt almost glacially slow. But there came a point where I suddenly realized that as Doyle and company where examining all the evidence for whatever forensic answers they could provide, so to was Bradley Harper building a clinical and forensic narrative that became more fascinating with each successive chapter. Suddenly I was HOOKED! I realized that as the Victorian Age moved at a slower pace, so to would the story. But it wasn't bogged down like first impressions suggested.

I loved the airships that the kids use to scavenge. They had a very steampunk feel. I also loved the relationships between the kids with Hazel the leader, Swedish the pilot, Bea the engineer, and Chess as the explorer. Chess was born from the fog from an experiment from Lord Kodoc, vile man that is hellbent on finding a machine to control the fog. Fortunately for Chess, he doesn’t know Chess exist with the help of Mrs. E. Though Chess hides his eye for the fear that Kodoc will someday find him and work him to death. For a horror novel, The Fog isn’t particularly scary, but it’s an excellent action novel with plenty of violent surprises. It reminded me of an environmental disaster story, a medical thriller, and a high-adventure rescue mission. Other sections recalled a modern zombie adventure or even my favorite Able Team installment, Army of Devils by G.H. Frost. There were also several gratuitous and graphic sex scenes, if that’s your bag. a b c d "The Fog". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015.

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A short animated film, DARK TRYST, based on Harper’s short story and comic book of the same name, has won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, including Best Super Short Film at the London Movie Awards, the New York Movie Awards, and the Paris Film Awards, and Best Horror at the Tokyo Short Film Festival.

Oh, Crap!: Most of the second half of the movie is full of moments like this such as Andy being trapped by the ghosts in his home after they kill Ms. Kobritz and later Stevie being trapped by the revenants in the lighthouse. By the Hair: One of the ghosts grabs Sandy by the hair when trying to get through the church window. The slow build-up at the beginning of the film where, after midnight, things inexplicably start to go crazy as a bad omen. There's no cause given and no explanation and the incidents in question just... happen. The Fog is a 1980 American horror film directed by John Carpenter (his first big-screen feature following a certain other horror film, and like that one co-written with Debra Hill), starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis (and her mother, Janet Leigh), Hal Holbrook, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers, John Houseman and others.

THE ARCHIVES

Take my decision to read author Bradley Harper's A KNIFE IN THE FOG. I confess that I'd never even heard of the book until I saw a tweet from Harper himself. The content of that tweet made me curious and I got myself a copy of the book. Harrison, William (July 30, 2013). "Fog (Collector's Edition), The". DVD Talk. Archived from the original on January 2, 2023. Leogrande, Ernest (March 1, 1980). " 'Fog': A case of the damps". New York Daily News. p.166 – via Newspapers.com. Drowning My Sorrows: Father Malone is found drinking in his study on the evening of the festival. Kathy mentions that he is often "at his cups", so he may be an alcoholic. What was the point? That's how I felt at the end. Only reason I gave it two stars and not one is that it did hold my interest, surprisingly.

Boulenger, Gilles (2003). John Carpenter: Prince of Darkness. Los Angeles, California: Silman-James Press. ISBN 978-1-879-50567-4. Heroic Sacrifice: Father Malone tries this. It doesn't work at first, but results in him getting killed later. Stevie arguably does this also, remaining at her post to warn the townspeople (despite not knowing if her son is alive or dead) and fighting to the last against the zombies who besiege her lighthouse.Gazing at the stars I nearly told them the old tale of "Skywalker trek," about a space war between the Klingons and the Jedi, set in a future when people lived on distant planets, and fought Tribbles, Ewoks, and Borgs." Father Malone suddenly jumps out of his confessional booth in the silent church, scaring the bejesus out of Kathy. Action Mom: Stevie becomes one of these in the film's final few minutes as she has to fight off the ghosts. Plus, the pirate siblings *screaming* I LOVE NISHA AND VIDIOUS SO MUCH. That moment at the end between them before Vidious goes and does the Thing was like *screams* The young woman and the cop are very Trump-like in their attitudes toward the immigrants; more-or-less: “Look at them ARABS in their fancy cars in MY house playing FOREIGN music and speaking a FOREIGN language in their fancy clothes” etc. The cop understands Iranians are not Arabs but she never gets it.

Everytown, America: Despite being a seaside town, what we see of Antonio Bay fits the trope. The festival even looks a bit like a 4th of July celebration. Town with a Dark Secret: Although the townspeople did not know about the crime committed 100 years ago until Father Malone finds the journal on anniversary day. The story is about an immigrant Iranian family, the Beharanis, searching for success in its adopted land, a lower middle class American woman, Kathy Nicholo, and a policeman, Lester Burdon. The story is told alternatively in the voices of Colonel Beharani, formerly of the Army of the Shah of Iran, Kathy, and occasionaly in the third person, of Lester.Did you *get* that? A man wrote about the thing most men want more than food and only slightly less than air, and made it *unappealing*.