Another masterful horror film by Carpenter that influenced others...showed no gore but terribly horrifying at the same time. One of my all time favorites and critically underrated in my view as well. You're on a roll Mr. In Awe..keep em' coming!
Fun Fact: Hal Holbrook was a great actor and will be missed…and he also happened to have a nephew (or maybe cousin? I don’t remember exactly) named Dan who taught 10th grade biology to me & my wife in our tiny rural town 😁
Great FIlm. Always watch it every year when it gets to foggy season. If you've ever been along that stretch of the California coastline you'll know the fog is real !
I've never been in the US, although always wanted to visit California for so many movie related things and then Martha's Vineyard to see the locations of Jaws, which is my favorite movie of all time. But I live in the southern coast of Finland and we have fogs too!
Doing a great job with this channel. Your approach is very good and I am looking forward to more instalments. I saw the Fog in high school and it was really popular with my friends. For me, it is timeless and has always been one of my favourite movies. It’s sort of a classic B movie like the 1950s science fiction movies. I really like the close-knit feel of the characters, almost like a John Ford Western. It also has a really strong sense of place. John Houseman was perfect. I got to know him from Paper Chase, the movie and the series. Later he did those famous investment commercials with the tag line, “we make money the old fashion way, we earn it.” Keep up the good work. Cheers.
Thank you so much for your kind words! Means a lot!, and encourages me to keep going. Do watch the Babadook video I just published, Exorcist III is coming next. Maybe so Carpenter again after that, who knows...
The Fog is right up my alley as well, it's one of the greatest gothic horror films, in my humble opinion. The reason it works so well is because it focuses on brewing up a crippling sense of dread, and the opening sequence leading up to the attack on the Seagrass is able to stand on its own as a complete horror film, and yet, we get more! Idk if you know anything about classic Ravenloft as a setting for dungeons and dragons, particularly in it's 2nd edition and 3rd edition incarnations, but The Fog *is* a Ravenloft story, it fits right in, especially in the Gothic Earth expansion. I think the biggest problem with the remake is, like you say, they didn't understand why the original was scary, that early 2000s era of movies seemed to bring so many films where they thought loud and fast was the formula to produce fear and like... the Fog is a case study in doing the opposite.
Well said about "loud and fast"! I've played old D&D PC games quite a bit. Baldurs Gate I/II and such, so what I know basically comes from them. I've heard about Ravenloft but am not familiar with it.
@@InAwe9000 I watched the Ninth Gate and I agree completely. Polanski is so polarizing, but some of his films grab you right from the start and keep you enthralled. Have yourself a lovely weekend, mate.
I’ve never cared for Carpenter’s slasher flicks but his supernatural stuff is great and he proved with Big Trouble & They Live that he’s the undisputed champion of balancing camp with serious action & fun 😁
I'm also very fond of this film. the photography alone is truly worthy not to mention locations.. stunning.. that ending scene is everything! (maybe a video on peckinpah next?!)
Thank you for your kind words! I love the In the Mouth of Madness and will certainly make a video about it at some point. After Christine, it's the Carpenter movie I find myself watching most often. I think it is because while Carpenter is my favourite director, Lovecraft is my favorite writer and Sam Neill is one of my favourite actors. This movie was just a perfect storm!
Hm...you've made me reconsider my own ranking of John Carpenter's movies; The Fog was No11 (I never particularly liked it), but now it's No8. It still isn't the same caliber as The Thing, They Live, Halloween, Escape From New York, Starman, Vampires (so underrated and wrongfully maligned) and Big Trouble in Little China. You've pointed out some interesting directorial bravuras from Carpenter which elevate the movie.👍👏
Thanks a bunch! Vampires IS underrated, I totally agreed. So many people say that In The Mouth of Madness was his last great film, but I think it was Vampires. It's not as great as many of his previous movies but it still had that golden Carpenter touch, that I did not really feel after that. For me, the Top 10 probably are: Christine The Thing In The Mouth of Madness Prince of Darkness Halloween The Fog Escape from New York Vampires They Live Big Trouble in Little China I'm often very horror focused and his films in the other genre just fall in the ranking because of that.
@@InAwe9000 Yes, he's the master of horror. I'm sorry Ghosts of Mars failed miserably, it had the potential but too many things went horribly wrong with that. The movie world desperately needs filmmakers like John Carpenter, such a great, interesting guy! I also love Escape from L.A. almost as much as the NY. Apart from that surfing ridiculous blunder it is Snake Plissken in its fullest, great dystopian messages, subtle poking at Hollywood establishment and new world order, epic lines from the character and awesome music. ''The more things change, the more they stay the same!'' hell yeah ✊
Sooner or most likely later there will be one. Amon g Christine, The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness, Prince of Darkness is a Carpenter film I see at least once a year. The mood setting in that movie is the best it has ever been, and I really like the 1st and 2nd acts, while the 3rd act did not improve the experience. I really liked the ending with the protagonist with the mirror though.
I'm sorry I watched this movie in the movie theater back in the day back back back back back in the day I couldn't get into it and I totally agree with you on the fact that there was too many people I don't know who is what and where was who
Every scene drips with atmosphere. The locations and amazing soundtrack make it my second favourite Carpenter. I don't need to say what his best is. You just have to compare this to the dreadful remake to see why Carpenter will always be one of the greatest storytellers.
I can't emphasize how much I love that movie. I even liked the Omen 2 and 3, not including the ending of the latter. The First Omen was not bad at all. Saw it at the theater and thought it was a quick money grab by the studio. I've never walked out of a theater so pleasantly surprised since Hereditary. I promise I'll do this movie at some point. Right now, Im trying to do Babadook. Maybe after that :)
4:03, quick point of order - that screenshot says it took $70 million at the box office (which seems a lot back then), but you state it took $20million? Can anyone clarify?
Hi, the screenshot was for Halloween and was meant to reference the amount of money (325 000) Carpenter had for Halloween compared to the one million he had for the Fog. The Fog made over 20 million in the box office, while 70 million in the screenshot was what Halloween made. I could have been more clear with this while editing :)
Not my parents certainly. My father had a huge cabinet full of VHS-tapes recorded from TV. All of them contained a movie, and were meticulously numbered and catalogued. I dont remember how many, but I remember numbers over 300. It was decades ago, and I still remember that Jaws was on cassette number 17. Alien was in cassette 49. Whenever I was alone, I would watch the movies in the cabinet. Some traumatized me. Hellraiser was the worst. But I also learned to love movies that way.
@@InAwe9000 🤪 I'm 60 and I haven't watched those movies. I know some people love scary movies but the only ones I've ever watched were because someone else chose them. Have you seen 28days later? We bought tickets to something else and walked into the wrong theatre. I'm not exaggerating, when he walked into the church and the first zombie spotted him my heart skipped a beat like an actual thump in the chest. Halfway through I actually closed my eyes and pretended to watch the rest of the movie. I think I don't like them because two friends and I were actually hunted by a group of people through a blacked out pub, they wouldn't have killed us but hospital was definitely on the cards. It left an impression on 19 year old me 🫨
@@bobkoroua Thank you for sharing! I know plenty of people that do not like horror movies and cannot watch them. I've seen 28 days later, and liked it somewhat. Zombie movies are not my genre really. My grandfather served in the WWII in the eastern front where my country (Finland) went against the Soviet Union, and like everyone who's been through that, had his traumas. He never saw movies that much - but went to the cinema with my father to see a Finnish war movie called Talvisota. When there was a mass assault scene where the Red Army would try to swarm the Finnish positions, my grandfather started to look around for his submachinegun neurotically.
@@InAwe9000 Welcome to NATO, you are my go to when some ruskibot starts nobbing on about how pootin-khuilo had to react when Ukraine made noises about joining the European community. Crickets when it's a nation of somber stubborn loners with the largest collection of artillery in Europe. I hope you don't think I'm being disrespectful, I worry even about Russian children. How hopeful I was when the wall came down. I had my first child in my arms watching it and sobbing for the amazing safe future. siunatkoon ystävääsi.
the actual execution of the udnerlying plot was stilted/forced and too "ok, guys, here's the backstory" expository.... but i love everything else... esp the slow, slow, slow pace
This was a critical flop but i dont aee how i thought this was a fantastic movie with a very engaging plot great acting and when we watched this as kids we were scared right proper of fog afterwards !😂
What a way to start a channel! Cannot wait for more 🎉
Another masterful horror film by Carpenter that influenced others...showed no gore but terribly horrifying at the same time. One of my all time favorites and critically underrated in my view as well. You're on a roll Mr. In Awe..keep em' coming!
Thanks! I will!
Fun Fact: Hal Holbrook was a great actor and will be missed…and he also happened to have a nephew (or maybe cousin? I don’t remember exactly) named Dan who taught 10th grade biology to me & my wife in our tiny rural town 😁
Wow it's a small world!
I adore it. Ghost stories are my fave, and this is a great twist.
Glad you liked it too! And thanks for watching!
Great FIlm. Always watch it every year when it gets to foggy season. If you've ever been along that stretch of the California coastline you'll know the fog is real !
I've never been in the US, although always wanted to visit California for so many movie related things and then Martha's Vineyard to see the locations of Jaws, which is my favorite movie of all time.
But I live in the southern coast of Finland and we have fogs too!
Doing a great job with this channel. Your approach is very good and I am looking forward to more instalments. I saw the Fog in high school and it was really popular with my friends. For me, it is timeless and has always been one of my favourite movies. It’s sort of a classic B movie like the 1950s science fiction movies. I really like the close-knit feel of the characters, almost like a John Ford Western. It also has a really strong sense of place. John Houseman was perfect. I got to know him from Paper Chase, the movie and the series. Later he did those famous investment commercials with the tag line, “we make money the old fashion way, we earn it.” Keep up the good work. Cheers.
Thank you so much for your kind words! Means a lot!, and encourages me to keep going.
Do watch the Babadook video I just published, Exorcist III is coming next. Maybe so Carpenter again after that, who knows...
One of the best horror films ever made
The Fog is right up my alley as well, it's one of the greatest gothic horror films, in my humble opinion. The reason it works so well is because it focuses on brewing up a crippling sense of dread, and the opening sequence leading up to the attack on the Seagrass is able to stand on its own as a complete horror film, and yet, we get more! Idk if you know anything about classic Ravenloft as a setting for dungeons and dragons, particularly in it's 2nd edition and 3rd edition incarnations, but The Fog *is* a Ravenloft story, it fits right in, especially in the Gothic Earth expansion. I think the biggest problem with the remake is, like you say, they didn't understand why the original was scary, that early 2000s era of movies seemed to bring so many films where they thought loud and fast was the formula to produce fear and like... the Fog is a case study in doing the opposite.
Well said about "loud and fast"!
I've played old D&D PC games quite a bit. Baldurs Gate I/II and such, so what I know basically comes from them. I've heard about Ravenloft but am not familiar with it.
Solid work there. Keep it going 💪
Stumbled across your channel earlier today, and what a cracking job you're doing. Looking forward to watching more soon.
Cheers!
Thank you sir! I needed that today 🙂
Do check out the others, this was my first one and I think the rest are made better.
@@InAwe9000 I watched the Ninth Gate and I agree completely. Polanski is so polarizing, but some of his films grab you right from the start and keep you enthralled. Have yourself a lovely weekend, mate.
@@BretHiggins You too friend!
I love these channels that give me confirmation that my taste in movies is sublime. Thanks mate.
Welcome to the echo chamber mate :)
I’ve never cared for Carpenter’s slasher flicks but his supernatural stuff is great and he proved with Big Trouble & They Live that he’s the undisputed champion of balancing camp with serious action & fun 😁
Yeah sure is!
8:59 Tommy Lee Wallace in the background..
I'm also very fond of this film. the photography alone is truly worthy not to mention locations.. stunning.. that ending scene is everything! (maybe a video on peckinpah next?!)
@@nickbirkhead7238 Which Peckinpah movie did you have in mind?
@@InAwe9000 ride the high country is a personal fav but honestly, any of them
@@nickbirkhead7238 Ok, we wil see :)
This is awesome 🎉
Great analysis, I would be interested to see what you think of "In the Mouth of Madness"
Thank you for your kind words!
I love the In the Mouth of Madness and will certainly make a video about it at some point. After Christine, it's the Carpenter movie I find myself watching most often. I think it is because while Carpenter is my favourite director, Lovecraft is my favorite writer and Sam Neill is one of my favourite actors. This movie was just a perfect storm!
SUBSCRIBED.. very excited about your channel
Thank you so much, welcome aboard!
Hm...you've made me reconsider my own ranking of John Carpenter's movies; The Fog was No11 (I never particularly liked it), but now it's No8. It still isn't the same caliber as The Thing, They Live, Halloween, Escape From New York, Starman, Vampires (so underrated and wrongfully maligned) and Big Trouble in Little China. You've pointed out some interesting directorial bravuras from Carpenter which elevate the movie.👍👏
Thanks a bunch!
Vampires IS underrated, I totally agreed. So many people say that In The Mouth of Madness was his last great film, but I think it was Vampires. It's not as great as many of his previous movies but it still had that golden Carpenter touch, that I did not really feel after that.
For me, the Top 10 probably are:
Christine
The Thing
In The Mouth of Madness
Prince of Darkness
Halloween
The Fog
Escape from New York
Vampires
They Live
Big Trouble in Little China
I'm often very horror focused and his films in the other genre just fall in the ranking because of that.
@@InAwe9000 Yes, he's the master of horror. I'm sorry Ghosts of Mars failed miserably, it had the potential but too many things went horribly wrong with that. The movie world desperately needs filmmakers like John Carpenter, such a great, interesting guy! I also love Escape from L.A. almost as much as the NY. Apart from that surfing ridiculous blunder it is Snake Plissken in its fullest, great dystopian messages, subtle poking at Hollywood establishment and new world order, epic lines from the character and awesome music. ''The more things change, the more they stay the same!'' hell yeah ✊
The Fog is one of my favorites. I really enjoyed your analysis very much! Hoping for a video about Prince of Darkness in the future!
Sooner or most likely later there will be one. Amon g Christine, The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness, Prince of Darkness is a Carpenter film I see at least once a year. The mood setting in that movie is the best it has ever been, and I really like the 1st and 2nd acts, while the 3rd act did not improve the experience. I really liked the ending with the protagonist with the mirror though.
@@InAwe9000 Yes! The ending of Prince of darkness haunts me!
CDON pettää jälleen :)
Niin teki perkele…
Nice!
Enjoying your videos
Thank you so much!
11:24 Debra Hill sat down..
@@v.rudeboy9829 🤭
Algorithm +1. Keep making these videos, I for one will keep watching 😁 A new subscriber to the channel⬆️💪🏻
I will! Welcome aboard!
@@InAwe9000 👍🏻
I'm sorry I watched this movie in the movie theater back in the day back back back back back in the day I couldn't get into it and I totally agree with you on the fact that there was too many people I don't know who is what and where was who
Yeah it's not for everyone!
Every scene drips with atmosphere. The locations and amazing soundtrack make it my second favourite Carpenter. I don't need to say what his best is. You just have to compare this to the dreadful remake to see why Carpenter will always be one of the greatest storytellers.
@@paulaburrows8660 Im glad you loved it too! Thanks for the comment!
Please do the original ‘The Omen’ with Gregory Peck 👍
I can't emphasize how much I love that movie. I even liked the Omen 2 and 3, not including the ending of the latter. The First Omen was not bad at all. Saw it at the theater and thought it was a quick money grab by the studio. I've never walked out of a theater so pleasantly surprised since Hereditary.
I promise I'll do this movie at some point. Right now, Im trying to do Babadook. Maybe after that :)
4:03, quick point of order - that screenshot says it took $70 million at the box office (which seems a lot back then), but you state it took $20million?
Can anyone clarify?
Hi, the screenshot was for Halloween and was meant to reference the amount of money (325 000) Carpenter had for Halloween compared to the one million he had for the Fog. The Fog made over 20 million in the box office, while 70 million in the screenshot was what Halloween made.
I could have been more clear with this while editing :)
Who let you watch a horror movie at ten years old?
Not my parents certainly.
My father had a huge cabinet full of VHS-tapes recorded from TV. All of them contained a movie, and were meticulously numbered and catalogued. I dont remember how many, but I remember numbers over 300. It was decades ago, and I still remember that Jaws was on cassette number 17. Alien was in cassette 49.
Whenever I was alone, I would watch the movies in the cabinet. Some traumatized me. Hellraiser was the worst. But I also learned to love movies that way.
@@InAwe9000
🤪
I'm 60 and I haven't watched those movies.
I know some people love scary movies but the only ones I've ever watched were because someone else chose them.
Have you seen 28days later?
We bought tickets to something else and walked into the wrong theatre.
I'm not exaggerating, when he walked into the church and the first zombie spotted him my heart skipped a beat like an actual thump in the chest.
Halfway through I actually closed my eyes and pretended to watch the rest of the movie.
I think I don't like them because two friends and I were actually hunted by a group of people through a blacked out pub, they wouldn't have killed us but hospital was definitely on the cards.
It left an impression on 19 year old me 🫨
@@bobkoroua Thank you for sharing! I know plenty of people that do not like horror movies and cannot watch them. I've seen 28 days later, and liked it somewhat. Zombie movies are not my genre really.
My grandfather served in the WWII in the eastern front where my country (Finland) went against the Soviet Union, and like everyone who's been through that, had his traumas. He never saw movies that much - but went to the cinema with my father to see a Finnish war movie called Talvisota. When there was a mass assault scene where the Red Army would try to swarm the Finnish positions, my grandfather started to look around for his submachinegun neurotically.
@@InAwe9000
Welcome to NATO, you are my go to when some ruskibot starts nobbing on about how pootin-khuilo had to react when Ukraine made noises about joining the European community.
Crickets when it's a nation of somber stubborn loners with the largest collection of artillery in Europe.
I hope you don't think I'm being disrespectful, I worry even about Russian children.
How hopeful I was when the wall came down.
I had my first child in my arms watching it and sobbing for the amazing safe future.
siunatkoon ystävääsi.
"Quality time at the morgue"
@@ulehlud9027 Indeed 😉
the actual execution of the udnerlying plot was stilted/forced and too "ok, guys, here's the backstory" expository.... but i love everything else... esp the slow, slow, slow pace
Yeah slow burners for the win! But while the pacing is slow, I always feel like the movie is in a rush. It's funny that way.
People look at me sideways when I say this is one of Carpenters best..better than Halloween IMO
@@jeremyfoote8638 cant say I totally disagree here…
@@InAwe9000 that's fine. that is why I said In My Opinion. To me Myers is a boring slow walking zombie story
@@jeremyfoote8638 no I meant I do not disagree. While I value Halloween for all that it is, it’s not a top 5 Carpenter for me.
This was a critical flop but i dont aee how i thought this was a fantastic movie with a very engaging plot great acting and when we watched this as kids we were scared right proper of fog afterwards !😂
Absolutely!
Ruined by crappy AI
I was not happy with the result either, but it was my first video.
Im sorry that those instances actually ruined the experience for you.
@@InAwe9000 Using AI at all is cheap and will date your videos even more poorly. Just my opinion.
@@neilok17847 Yes you are probably right! Haven't used it at all recently.