The Fog (1980)

Made for about a million dollars, John Carpenter’s cinematic follow up to Halloween tries to find terror in fog, and you know what? It works remarkably well. The key was never to try to elicit horror from the fog itself, but to have the fog hide something we could never quite see. In some ways, it’s a throwback to an older kind of horror where the threat was never seen and only alluded to, allowing the audience’s imagination to pick up the slack. Carpenter obviously doesn’t really go that fa...