My mini
reviews of the movies we’re watching this month are going to run a wee bit
behind. October decided to come in with a bang and I’ve barely been home.
Fitting in a movie in the evening has been challenging.
1 October –
The Fog (Day’s theme was First Time Watch) This was the original version of the
movie, from 1980. I really enjoyed it and loved how it didn’t play to the
tropes we so easily toss about nowadays when discussing movies. It would be
worth a re-watch.
My biggest
problem was the age difference between Tom Atkins and Jamie Lee Curtis. I might
not have discovered just how big of an age difference there was, except Jeff
pointed out that he looked a little old for her. A little! Try he was 45 to her
22. Once I knew, it just became icky. However, you can already tell how good of
an actress she is.
I really
loved that the three female leads are the top billed in the credit, with Jamie
Lee Curtis and Adrienne Barbeau having top billing on the movie poster. And the
women were smart, too.
The movie
makes the most of suspense, which I like. It’s also got some slasher vibes as
the creatures in the fog exact their revenge, but you don’t see a lot of blood
splashed about. I honestly think that would have been a distraction from the
suspense John Carpenter kept building as the story progressed.
And since
this is a, at least in theory, a gaming-related blog, I started thinking Call
of Cthulhu by the mid-point. I mean, really, creepy fog with murderous monsters
coming out of it? It practically screams Deep Ones – and I’m not talking about
those Hybrid nasties either. Oh, and the movie backs up my philosophy of if you
play well, and smart, you have a good chance of surviving.
That's it for now! Play along with your own Halloween movie challenge and check out Pun's themes here.
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