SCREENING
The Fog
Friday, Nov 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Bartos Screening Room
Dir. John Carpenter. 1980, 89 mins. U.S. DCP. With Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Tom Atkins. Carpenter followed up his epochal slasher film Halloween with this astonishingly beautiful and scary tale of the unknown. Shot in expressive widescreen by Dean Cundey, The Fog is set in the North Californian fishing village Antonio Bay, where a centuries-old curse has returned in the form of an amorphous mist to wreak violent havoc on the unsuspecting populace, who are forced to pay penance for the sins of their ancestors. Certainly the most elegant movie one could ever make about ghost pirates, Carpenter’s film serves up one gorgeous-terrifying image after another and features a host of perfectly cast horror icons from Jamie Lee Curtis and her mother Janet Leigh to Adrienne Barbeau as the sultry-voiced local DJ Stevie Wayne, stranded in her lighthouse radio station as the bloodthirsty spirits creep ever closer. “Utterly earnest in its telling,” writes Michael Koresky. “As exemplified by John Houseman’s cameo as a crusty seaside storyteller and the Edgar Allan Poe quote that precedes it, The Fog believes in the power of a good-old fashioned ghost story.”
Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership.
Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.
Buy a combo ticket to see The Seventh Victim and The Fog for $20!