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The Fog(Movie, 1980)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 29min | Genre: Horror
The FogRating: 3.4/5 (with 633633 votes)
The Fog is a 1980 American supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and created the music for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps over a small coastal town in Northern California, bringing with it the vengeful ghosts of leprous mariners who were killed in a shipwreck there a century before. Filmed in the spring of 1979, The Fog was scheduled to be released at Christmas that year by AVCO Embassy Pictures, but its release date was delayed to February 1, 1980. The film divided critics upon release, receiving praise for its visuals and acting, and criticism for its structure and screenplay. Despite mixed reviews, the film grossed $21.3 milli... ()
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About The Fog

Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Shot in: California
Plays in: California
Derivative works/Adaptions: "The Fog" (movie, 2005)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 29 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Bosnian (BS), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 08/27/1980 (World premiere: 02/08/1980)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Nebel des Grauens"
"Usva"
"ザ・フォッグ"
"John Carpenter's The Fog"
Budget: 1,000,000 USD
Revenue: 21,378,361 USD (= 2,138%)

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Other movies with this title: The Fog (US, 1923), The Fog (PL, 1976), The Fog (1993), The Fog (CA/FR/US, 2005), The Fog (RU, 2010), The Fog (DE, 2019)

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