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Help, the FOG IS COMING FOR MY SON!


Saw this for the first time tonight at a local movie theatre, first part of a double feature with Phantasm. Both have some similar moments, and almost identical music.

The core ghost story is pretty good. However, fog itself is just not scary. It's not explained to the towns people that there's any reason to be afraid or fog, but the woman on the radio is screaming about it like she's really going to convince someone to rescue her son... from the fog of all things. It gets silly to speak of fog in this way. That's not to say it can't hide something dangerous, it just shouldn't be spoken of like it's flowing lava.

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She's just heard something terrible happen to the weather guy and the fog is enveloping her house and her son. What's she supposed to do? Just accept it and worry about sounding stupid to everyone listening who isn't aware of the threat, or worse, in front of clever clogs watching the movie who realise this also?

Luckily for her and for Andy, two people already aware of something bad being afoot were driving by at the time Stevie was broadcasting her desperate cry for help.


"I don't need to believe it's real. I just need to believe it."

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If you remember Stevie was on the phone to her friend in the weather station while he was getting chopped up. Also she and Nick knew something was up by finding the dead body on the boat and the piece of driftwood that 'changed' wording as she was looking at it. I think I'd be pretty worried if things like that started to happen! The film was ace.

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it saved the chubby kid's life though.

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In this day and age she would be slaughtered far worse on Facebook for staying at work instead of leaving to save her son. Ahhhhh...to be back in the 80s sans social media..

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She couldn't leave. The fog had already cut off her escape route. So she called out for help.

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