Awesome Movie Year

The Fog (1980 Audience Choice)


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The finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1980 features our audience choice pick, John Carpenter’s The Fog. Directed and co-written by John Carpenter and starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, Ty Mitchell and Hal Holbrook, The Fog prevailed over two other 1980 horror classics in our audience choice poll.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-fog-1980), Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1980/02/29/archives/screen-fog-comes-in-at-3-theatersrevenge-from-the-past.html), and Richard Corliss in Maclean’s (https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1980/2/11/making-you-scream-for-arts-sake).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next installment, the epilogue to our 1980 season.

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