“Like the best horror movies, The Fog is held together by a visual motif of perversion, a visually poetic idea. Opaque and amorphous…the fog is both an expanding medium of death and a shroud…The most horrifying episodes are often uncannily beautiful, and the movie is beautiful in moments of peace, too. Carpenter knows how to give his landscapes the hard-edged look of hallucination… A low budget triumph, a genuinely poetic horror film.” David Denby, New York, February 18, 1980