The Fog

MOVIES!, 8 p.m.

John Carpenter followed up his 1978 classic slasher Halloween with a few TV films before releasing the atmospheric The Fog . Rather than relying on sheer gore, the film builds tension through the quiet, creeping dread of this supernatural threat. In a picturesque fishing town in Northern California exactly 100 years ago — on April 21, 1880 — a ship’s crew mistakenly thought a campfire was a lighthouse and crashed into the shoreline killing everyone aboard. Or so the tale goes ... the truth behind the ship’s crash is what unleashes this eerie, dense fog and its vengeful ghosts. Adrienne Barbeau, Carpenter’s wife at the time, was cast as the lead in her first major role. Tom Atkins, Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh help add to the terror. Scenes like the ghostly

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