October 7 - John Carpenter's The Fog

This was a horror film that I came across in my netflix queue. It's been there for a while. I saw the trailer for the 2005 remake in some DVD extras with something else, but when I know something is a remake, I prefer to watch the original first.

One of the reasons to watch this film is this is Jamie Lee Curtis's 2nd film. I may not know much about horror movies, but I do know that JLC is horror royalty. In The Fog, she is the cute, sweet hitchhiker passing thru the cursed Antonio Island. Talk about wrong place at the wrong time. Luckily she survives. Not really a spoiler there; you can't kill royalty!

The premise of The Fog seems like a pretty standard premise for the horror genre. A town is cursed by the sins of it's ancestors. It happens to be Antonio Island's 100th birthday and celebration & chaos both ensue.

Personally I found the killing creatures a little cheesy looking, but who knows, maybe back in 1980, they were super creeepy. I do approve of the soundtrack. John Carpenter is a master of the creepy sound effects.

The movie has few jumpy moments & a bit of suspense, but altogether not the scariest flick.

My overall movie rating: 2.5 out of 5 pumpkins

Scare-factor: 1.5 out of 5 screams

October - A Month of Spooks

I had total plans to re-kickstart my blogging & beef up my horror genre knowledge with October. I planned to watch a horror movie each day and record my thoughts here for you. I figured it'd be a fun way to kills those 2 birds with my 1 lazy stone. But since I started out October with my crazy host of medical problems, I totally forgot. My apologies! We will get a bit of a late start but we'll get 31 movies in. Since it's only the 7th, I figure I can totally catch up in no time!