Too Scary; Didn't Watch - THE FOG

Episode Date: April 24, 2024

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This is a HeadGum Podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I am also too scared to watch scary movies. Oh no! Aching silence. Oh, it's awful. I knew it was coming and I still just absolutely hated it.

Oh, it's like looking straight into a black hole. That's exactly what it's like. It's exactly what it's like. That black hole being the absence of Sammy. Oh, please stay. Please stay. I know. It's sad.

It's awful. Hang out with us. Hang out with me. Yeah, we need you here with us. We need you here with us. Sammy will be back. Sammy is on vacation. We love that for her um we need that for her everybody deserves some time away um let's just hope that she doesn't experience anything like midsummer nothing

like speak no evil yeah a lot of scary stuff can happen in europe yeah Yeah. She's also, she's in rural, like, Netherlands area, kind of. Yeah. There's a lot of scary things that can happen. There's a lot of scary things that can happen over there. We know. We know it to be true. But we also know that she's surrounded by a lot of vessel, museums, vessels on the water. You know, I think it's like...

The vessels are protecting her they're exactly exactly the energy of vessels is going to make her strong she'll be back we're sad to be without her we will soldier on um and other than that devastating scary truth right now did anything scary happen to you this weekend? Well, besides having terrible allergies, allergies continue. I fucking hate allergies. It's such a pain in the fucking ass.

I gotta say, because you're not sick so you don't have the excuse of being sick. You gotta just soldier through this. But you feel sick. It's like, you still, it's the same as being sick. I know, I know. I guess it's just you can't give it to other people so it's like you still it's the same as being sick i know i know i guess it's just you can't give it to other people so it's okay and you know what that feels pretty fucked up that you're only allowed to succumb to sickness when it can affect other people if it's only you and your body it's

like fucking deal get over it get over it over it this going to affect me, so fucking get over it. I know. Pretty rude. Pretty rude. It also ruins this time of the year, which is supposed to be delightful. Finally, the sun is shining. It is warm outside, yet I am completely bedridden by these allergies. The thing I want to talk about, though, is I watched the first part of the Steve Martin documentary. Have you seen it? No, I haven't, but I just love Steve Martin.

I loved it. It was so cute. I was totally hooked by the end. I really can't wait to watch the second part. Steve Martin, star of It's Complicated think the thing that's scary about the documentary is that Steve Martin spent 15 years working on opening for musicians, of doing like college shows, of their people, of like 18 people being in the audience until he kind of started to get bigger and bigger audiences. And then he went on SNL and then that just like broke him open to the world. And he became super fucking famous after that and was like selling out stadiums. But 15 years. I mean, you have to have stamina, commitment. You have to know that you're playing the long game. I mean, can you imagine spending that long on just like one hour of material? Also not knowing that it will ever pay off like you could this could be 15 years it could be forever it could be like it's like

it's really brave and it's really scary and it's also scary that you can't do that anymore because of the internet and social media like you would and just the way that television works and movies and all of it it's like you can't you don't have 15 years of time you kidding me we all of us might not have 15 more years of time i know we told you a few episodes ago like clock is it ticking clock is ticking clock is fucking ticking um yeah anyway so that part just really i was like wow 15 years is so fucking long but Steve Martin um he uh just love him it's a really comforting presence he is a really comforting presence the documentary is really fun really fun I love that I would give that a try. I'll give that a try.

What about you? Tell me about your week. Well, really, the scary thing, I guess, is I'm trying so hard not to succumb to the wedding industrial complex. It's impossible. I'm trying so hard. OK, no, listen, listen. The second you said wedding more than like three times, the algorithm heard you and it's been feeding you wedding industrial complex stuff.

I know. It's really, I can't. And like, also just within my own brain, like I'm trying really hard to be like, like we, just before we started recording, I was like, okay, Henley, it's like, what should my Botox timing be? Like I need, I know I need to get, obviously I need to change my whole face before I get married. Like the face I have currently cannot be the face that Joel marries. Obviously it needs to be different. Like I, it's just, it's really, it's, it's really wild. Like I feel like I'm swimming upstream, like every day of my life I don't know whether this would help or hurt but one thing that I did when I was in this state of mind is I read um Emily Weiss's um art the article she posted on Into the Gloss she's like the founder of Into

the Gloss about everything she did before she got married and it scared me so deeply that it made me be like, so actually frightened of falling into that trap. And it prevented me from doing a lot of that thinking and going down that rabbit hole. Yes. I know that I'm like, I like refuse to quote unquote, get into shape. Like I'm like one thing for it that's for sure not happening is like all of a sudden need to like eat healthier and exercise for the next five months. Like no, I'm not doing that. I mean, I'll do what a regular person should do to be like have a healthy body that I can manage, but I'm not like but for whatever reason that logic is not applying to my face because I think too

I know I have to stop I have stuff and I don't I don't like mean it but but you know I don't like here one of my co-workers is getting married a couple months before me and she's also very chill about it and is like you know she's not doing all the insane stuff that women do before they marry but you know she was talking about when she's to start like getting her like all her facials. And I was like, oh, right. Yep. Yep. Got to get all my facial.

Like, I'm just like all these things where I'm like, oh, I better do that. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. As a woman, it is my job to make sure that I do. And honestly, maybe like some facials would be good because it's calming. I just I'm trying to think of like, what can I do to tick the box of like, you're doing this for your wedding, but that is actually only soothing. Maybe that's the

through line. That's a smart way to look at it. But it's, it's re and you know, the thing about you're going to get your picture taken so much. And it's like, I've had my picture taken before with this same face and body and it's fine. Like it doesn't it'll be more pictures. Sure. But it's still like it's still me. But you get you start to get wrapped up in it and you hear other people mentioning things about weddings and like, oh, yeah. I remember before my wedding, I did blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, oh, I guess if I don't do blah, blah, blah.

I'm going to regret it for the rest of my life because you're never going to have more photographs on your wedding day. And you better not hate yourself the way that all women do. We know we all do hate ourselves. And so we have to change ourselves before the wedding so we can hate ourselves a little bit less for one day. It's really fucked up that I'm trying so hard not to succumb. I guess the first step is being aware and then just doing everything you can with that awareness. Because I think you're right. I think it's inevitable. I think that you would have to be a hermit in order to avoid it because it's going to be around you. The

messaging is constant. It's relentless. You'd have to be a hermit who has told nobody that they're getting married. I would have to not have the internet and also not tell anybody I'm getting married. And never discuss it until it actually happens. Just don't discuss it. Just never discuss it. There's no fun in that. This is a fun thing. It's a fun thing. It's a fun time. And

let yourself enjoy it. Enjoy it. You know, let yourself like you know, it's fine. And I am. But it takes a lot of maintenance. And the thing about the pictures is that even no matter what, 10 years from now, when you look at those pictures, you're going to be like, damn, I was hot. You know what I mean?

I mean, it's true. It's true. Damn, I was hot. Damn, I looked happy. Damn, we were having fun. Exactly. And also, like, you know, we are going to get pictures. We have a photographer. She's amazing. But it's also really funny that I'm sort of like, what are we going to do with all these pictures?

Why are we going to have all of these pictures? I know. So yeah, it's not even like they're going to print two. It's actually so funny. I'm sure that the pictures are such a burden. They're weighing so heavily. They're sitting on the shoulders of all women who have been married, those pictures. It's like, what do we do with them? Where do they go? Where do they go? It's also like, it is important. You do want great pictures. And I guess the point is you get like 500 pictures so that you can have three favorites.

But it's also like yeah the percentage of mental space it takes up before and after the percentage of budget it takes up is so expensive fucking crazy but it's also like well yeah you have to do it and then you have to care about it more than anything because pictures last forever i mean your memories of the moment will fade pictures items it's really crazy unless you're like pitching yourself for like a vogue wedding or like an l wedding spread or something but even that is like not gonna be satisfying even that isn't satisfying it's not it can't feed it's an endless pit speaking of black holes it really is it really is it's an endless pit and i gotta find a way to stay

out of that pit and i i'm you know i'm doing i'm doing pretty well but it the pit is there i see it i see the pit it's like when I went to the Grand Canyon and at night I stood at the edge and looked over and you could see nothing it's just blackness and you feel like you're falling even though you know you're standing firmly on the ground and you're not gonna fall into the Grand Canyon it's like it's right there you know it's when I saw Top Gun with you felt the same way same way same thing yeah so you know it you know the feeling oh so that's a little scary but it's okay because it's fun and we're having fun. We're having fun.

And you'll be here. And so I'm going to just be so happy. And also, you're just having a big party at the end of the day. I'm just having a big party. If you want to have a party to renew your vows, you know, five years from now, 10 years from now, you do it again. Do it again. It doesn't have to be the last time you guys have a big party to renew your vows you know five years from now ten years from now you do it again it doesn't have to be the last time you guys have a big party to celebrate your love

it doesn't have to be the last time you're right every day is a party to celebrate our love really when you think about it every single day okay we got there it's going to be great but another scary thing i did

this week is i watched the scary movie for this podcast again sammy's not here so had to do it um and you better believe i picked a 90 minute movie yeah she did yeah i did um i picked a classic really that we had not yet done which is john carpenter's the fog oh john carpenter she loves john carpenter i do love john carpenter i do um and i'm excited to talk about it with you the fog came out in 1980. It was directed by John Carpenter, written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Hausman, Janet Leigh, and Hal Holbrook. Do you know anything about The Fog, Henley? No. I really don't know anything except I can imagine a fog does sinister things.

Yeah, that's exactly right. Okay. That's exactly right. Okay. That's exactly right. You nailed it. It is John Carpenter's theatrical follow-up to Halloween. I think he did some TV movies in between, but this is his next big movie. Okay.

Again, a crisp 90-minute runtime. We love it. The Fog has a 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 55% on Metacritic, and a 6.8 on IMDb. So, you know, just pretty good. Pretty standard. Pretty much what you'd expect. It had a budget of $1.1 million and a box office of $21.3 million. Wow.

So, pretty good. Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie Lee Curtis, man. And John Carpenter. of 21.3 million wow so pretty good jamie lee curtis jamie lee curtis man i think this was i know a match made in heaven i think that this was her follow-up big role from halloween because she had trouble getting cast in things after halloween apparently um frustrating and this is a very different role for her. A little more provocative. Although, really, I think that's just because she has sex at one point, which you don't even see. But I think for 1980, it was like, whoa. She's not a kid.

She's having sex. Although she was 22 years old. So she's still pretty young. Interesting. But she's also, Janet Leigh is her mother. Janet Leigh of Psych psycho fame oh yeah um and they're in this movie together and that doesn't happen it's the only time that happens until halloween h2o which is also john carpenter whoa whoa whoa okay wait real quick about jamie lee curtis speaking, I just saw that

she made a plea to musicians to have matinee shows. And that really spoke to me. As you know, you might remember when I went to go see Haim and it was simply too late for me. Especially this garbage of actually it starts like two hours later than you think it starts. 100%. You have an opener. The actual band doesn't go on until like 10.30 p.m. Like, I need to be in bed. What is up with musicians being late night? What's up with that? Being night owls.

Come on. What? Just because you play music, you don't like to sleep? What is that? I don't know. I don't agree with it. I don't support it. I fully support this idea of matinee music. Matinee music. I mean, not for me. I'll just spend my afternoon some other way. But for

others, I support it as well. Yeah. I'm way more likely to go see a concert if it's earlier in the day. But I'm just speaking for myself. Anyway, go on. Sorry to interrupt. No, I love that. I love that point. That's an important. We need to get more people in on this movement for matinee shows. Okay. I guess I should just get into some trivia. Yes, please. About this freaking movie. They did do a remake of this movie in 2005, and it has a 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. So that one didn't do so hot.

4%? 4%. That's astonishingly low. I'm curious. Almost as low as it gets. It's so low that it makes me interested, that it piques my interest. Yeah. I will say this is like, so the Carpenter movies that I have seen are actually I've not not enough.

I need to see more. The fog, the thing which I love and Halloween. And this one's like this is a pretty silly movie. There's some spooky stuff and it's like very cool and very Carpenter. But I think the thing is much, much scarier. I even find Halloween scarier, to be honest. So I can see why if you are attempting to remake this and you don't have all of the style and interest

and point of view of John Carpenter, that it would be like, what are we doing here? Also, Carpenter did the score, as he does for his movies. It's that very like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, like synthy sort of keyboardy. And it's fucking awesome. Um, so again, I just don't think you can do this if you're not John Carpenter. So thank God he did.

Um, okay. A little bit of trivia. This is just something that I was like, wow, I'm really impressed by all of the people that this trivia involves which is that so carpenter co-wrote and co-produced this movie with uh deborah hill who he was romantically involved with i suppose um until they actually made this movie i guess because right before this movie he married adrian barbeau the star of this movie and then they all continued to make the movie together so i'm just like what was that social dynamic like yikes did it all end

on good terms are we just like yeah man go go do your thing or or what i don't know but pretty interesting to me um tom atkins character's name is nick castle which is the name of the original actor who played Michael Myers in Halloween. I just thought that was fun. That's confusing. It's a little bit confusing. Hey, forget I ever said it. That's the only thing I'll be able to think about for the rest of the episode. Nick Castle.

I thought that was an actor. It's a real person and a fake person. Oh my God. Wait, what movie is this? Yeah, too confusing. Just let it go. go also just one more thought on deborah hill i think it also is like sad and frustrating whenever there's a really famous man who also there's another woman that no one has ever heard of and it's like i don't know how what else she was involved in so i don't know anything about deborah hill but it's like man you, you know, never heard the name Debra Hill before.

Certainly heard the name John Carpenter a lot. Like, I wonder how involved she was with anything he created. Could be nothing. Could be meaningless. But that's a great. It's a great point. I mean, it does say she was best known for her professional partnership with John Carpenter. Mm-hmm.

So. Mm-hmm. Oh, but also, sadly, she died of cancer when she was in her 50s. So she also just maybe didn't get to have as long of a career and legacy. Looks like she was just really in on the Halloween movies. So again, they must have had a good relationship. Even though it no longer was a romantic relationship.

Which I'm like, good for them. Yeah, good for them. You know what? We support it. John Carpenter originally intended to give this movie a PG rating. PG? So there's very little blood shown. They were really give this movie a PG rating. PG?

And so there's very little blood shown. They were really trying to get a PG rating, and it did end up getting an R rating. Well, oh, was this before PG-13? I think it was. I think it was before. Because didn't that come about? Didn't we discover that came about in like the 90s? What movie was it?

It's a really funny movie i feel like maybe it'd be a pg-13 um indiana jones and then gremlins gremlins and indiana jones okay so in the 80s um but yes so that they just jumped to to be because it's not it doesn't feel like an r-rated movie but i can see why they thought it's not a pg movie so got it um there were a lot of reshoots done after the first screening for john carpenter and deborah hill were like this movie does not work and also they executives told them it wasn't scary enough so they had to add in some stuff to make it scarier and more gruesome which i think is what yeah ended up giving it that r. And I'll talk about what those are when we get there. But in a scene at the end, so the fog plays heavily in this movie.

And there's a scene at the end where they were not going to be able to get the fog to roll out the way they wanted, like dissipate. So they had to shoot it in a way that it could be played in reverse because it was actually the fog coming up okay got it um so the so adrian barbeau had to perform parts of that scene knowing it would be reversed oh that's just really interesting yeah that would be difficult but i don't know it doesn't seem like it when you watch it i know don't even think about it forgetting i'm forgetting i forgot already um and adrian barbeau got the lead of this movie she has one scene with her son one scene with two uh spoiler alert ghosts um and other than that all of her scenes were by herself with no direct on-screen interaction with any other characters holy shit and once i read that trivia i was like

oh yeah i guess she's always alone um which is just a one-woman show it's a one-woman show well there are scenes with other actors with other people people, but she's just, she's just, she talks on the phone to people. But yeah, she's just, she's just up there all alone. Wow. She's interesting. Wow. Wait, you saying that their ghost also reminds me of another scary thing, which has just started happening, which is that Silas now is obsessed with ghosts. Ooh, cool.

Do you know why? I don't know. I honestly don't know exactly why. I think that he figured, he's seen pictures of ghosts, you know, like a white sheeted ghost in books and asked what they are and thinks they're kind of scary.

And now his interest has peaked. But it means that he now goes into a room and he goes, ah, there's a ghost, there's a ghost. Or he'll run up the stairs and he'll go, ah, there's a ghost, there's a ghost. Or he'll run up the stairs and go, ah, there's a ghost, there's a ghost. And then he turns around and he goes, it's a friendly ghost.

And then he goes, hi, ghost, how are you? And has like a full conversation. Oh my God. Henley, is it because he's seen a picture of a ghost and got interested? Or is it because there are ghosts in your house? I've been thinking about this so much because I'm like, this is the classic beginning.

It's conjuring all over again. Maybe he's interested in ghosts because he saw a ghost. But it's a friendly ghost. It's a friendly ghost. They always say that to children. That's what an unfriendly ghost would say. Like, sorry. It's friendly.

And also, they're good at conversing these ghosts he has long conversations with them god henley no okay it's getting more and more suspicious over there i know again you do live at a graveyard at a graveyard graveyard. I know. On top of so many souls. Where Silas likes to play on the gravestones. I know. I know. The other thing he does is when he's in the bathtub, he takes a washcloth and he puts his hand up in it and he goes, ooh, I'm a ghost.

Ooh, I'm a ghost. And he has it swim around the bathtub. And that's probably really upsetting the malevolent spirit ghost in your house to be made fun of in this way and then he pretends like it's a little puppet and he talks with it he has a conversation with the ghost i know i hope it's not belittling any spirits i you know we treat ghosts respectfully like we would treat anyone else yeah if any reasonable ghost would understand that silas is a toddler so it's like fine probably it's fine it's probably fine yeah i'll let you know if his

like soul gets corrupted though i'll keep you i'll keep yeah please make sure to let me know if that happens i would i need to be kept kept informed of that um we also are not going to watch the trailer because Sammy's not here and I don't know how to do it. So sorry. No trailer. No trailer reaction. Same movie back soon. I am sorry about that. I also want to say that this movie takes place on April 21st, which is a thing I did not know when i picked it for this week's week we

are recording on april 21st it is today is april 21st aka fog day what i had no idea and the movie started and we watched it a few days ago and they're starting the story on 21st of april and i was like oh that's funny that's like close to today. And then I did the math. I was like, we're recording on April 21st. What the fuck? That's weird. That's really weird. Something in the air.

Was it the ghosts? Were the ghosts like, they're like, twinkle, twinkle, we exist. I'm not so worried about these ghosts, to be completely honest. But I'm not worried about my ghosts either. Great. That's great. I did learn. So our friends over at Physical Therapy Movie Podcast also covered the fog this week because they knew that it about the date of the fog.

does an annual fog day where he'll like they like get a smoke machine and fill their apartment with fog and make like you i'll give you more details about the movie that'll make it make sense but i'm like you know i love atmosphere you know i love a theme i'm like wait i want to have a fog day it's just like your rain day it's just like my rain day, but with fog. But so today's fog day. Happy fog day, Henley. Thank you. Wow, the day just got so much better. Yeah. Now I know that it's actual fog day.

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Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream? Edgar Allan Poe. Oh my God. And I got to be honest, I don't understand why that quote's there. On my rewatch of it with Joel, that comes up. And after having seen the whole movie, I was like, wait, what does that have to do with anything? And Joel was like, I honestly don't know. So, you know, atmosphere, but also, I don't know.

If someone knows why that quote is relevant to this movie, please let me know. But then we see some kids sitting by a campfire. And it was a huge jump scare for me because it looks like two kids sitting next to each other huddled up in a blanket. And then as you look closer, you see there is a third child there in between them. And it really spooked me. I just was not expecting there to be a third child. I don't think it's meant to be a scary moment but i was like jesus christ there's so many kids it's like when i turn around and there's like a cat staring at me i'm like what the fuck why are you there um but there there's an old timey sailor telling

them a group of children a ghost story saying the hundred years ago on the 21st of April, there was a ship out at sea at Spivey Point and it was caught in a dense fog. But out in the distance, it saw light. It was lost. The ship didn't know where to go, but it saw this light in the distance and thinking it was a lighthouse or something calling to them, they aimed for it. But it turned out it was a campfire on the rocks. And they crashed their ship into the rocks. And they all fell into the sea and fell to their deaths. And legend has it that when the fog returns to Antonio Bay,

the men will rise up and seek the fire that led them to their deaths. The fog. Ooh, okay. It's also important to note that this movie takes place in Antonio Bay, a fictional town in

California. So he says, like, right where we are, when the clock, it's 1155, it's like when the clock strikes midnight on April 21st, the men will come back to avenge their deaths. And then the clock strikes midnight, baby. And we're doing our opening credits and we're going through this sleepy California town. We go into an old church. We're just seeing this old, lovely church and we're hearing a woman's voice over the radio.

She's like a radio DJ and she's saying, Hello, Antonio Bay. She's being very like sexy radio. Hello, Antonio Bay. It's the witching hour, 12 to 1. And I'm going to be here all night to take you through with some great tunes. And we see a priest, Father Malone, drinking alone in his office. And we see, you know, it's past midnight. And all of a sudden, a big stone slab falls off from the wall,

revealing a journal that was hidden in a little nook. So he takes the journal out, he opens it, and it says it's from the year 1880, 100 years ago. And the page he opens it to has a quote that says, Midnight till one belongs to the dead. May the Lord deliver us. And then we are cutting across town and we're seeing different scenes of things happening and weird stuff is happening all around town. In one area, we're seeing all the payphones in a row.

They're all ringing and their coins are rattling inside the payphones. We go inside of a convenience store, and we see all of a sudden all the glass water bottles and drinks and stuff inside the case start shaking almost as if there's like an earthquake happening, but it's just them, and they're making that clattery noise. A bunch of car alarms go off at once. We see a dog barking at the door of his house,

not really knowing what's going on throughout all this we keep hearing her name is stevie stevie's voice on the radio hello antonio bay hope and night's treating you well here's another tune to get you through the night and um it's all like really nice cool old-timey like jazz music which is apparently because the rights for jazz music were much more affordable than other genres of music but it i think sets like a really cool tone to this yeah it's like the old it's like the only radio station in town and they just like play jazz hell yeah music from sounds like the fucking 40s um and we see a man driving down the road alone and he drives past a young woman hitchhiking pulls over to let him into her his car we're nervous about this this is a young jamie lee

curtis she gets in she looks a little she thanks him for picking her up but she does look a little scared she says look this is my first time hitchhiking and i just got to take care of myself so uh are you i just have to know are you weird and he says yes yes i am weird and she says oh thank god you're weird i was so worried you were gonna be normal and they're hitting it off and they're flirting and it's great we were she's not gonna get murdered by this man but boy oh boy did i think she was okay he offers her a beer this is 1980 he's driving and drinking out of a big old tall boy she drinks from his can just truly not worried about being murdered at all but they are they're having they're having a great time and she tells him actually he's her 13th ride She's been hitchhiking all the way up from, I think, San Diego.

And Jesse says, oh, boy, 13th ride. That's unlucky. And then all the windows in the car shatter. All the windows, windshield, everything. They pull over, totally frazzled. What was that? And then they're like, we better get going. And then they don like we better get going and then they don't get out of the car they don't check anything they just keep driving not a totally untouched totally

untouched by the glass that shattered totally untouched not not hurt at all they don't wonder what could have caused it they just go like okay let's keep it going and for the rest of the movie when this car is driven around it has has no windows, no windshield, nothing. We go to the radio station, which is in the lighthouse on the coast. This is coastal California town. It reminds me of like Morro Bay or something. I think they did shoot it up in the Bay Area. I want to work in a radio station in a lighthouse in coastal California.

I know, it is nice but i will say there were so many stairs she had to take to get up into this lighthouse that i was like and i think the trivia is something like it's like 225 holy fucking shit it's like a lot it's too many stairs so just keep that in mind never mind um but yes so the radio station is is a lighthouse above spivey point and we see stevie she's you know announcing here's the next song for you antonio bay and then she goes off the air and her phone rings she picks it up and she's got still a sexy voice but her more more normal voice she answers it it's the local weatherman it's clear they have uh not the not like tv weatherman but the guy who like works in the weather station meteorologist i yeah let's call him a meteorologist yeah that is what he is

weatherman um it's clear that they have a flirtation but they but they don't know each other actually in real life they just like he calls her and gives her weather updates, which she says over her radio broadcast. But they're they're flirty. She's a huge babe. And he is giving me the creepiest vibes this whole movie. But she doesn't really know him personally. And they're just she tells her, like, you're just a voice over the phone. And he says, and you're just a voice over the radio. But he tells her, wanted to let you know, there's a fog bank rolling in

and there's a ship about 15 miles out on the water. It's called the Seagrass. So just wanted to give you that info. Just says, thanks so much. And she goes back on the air and says, you know, hello out there, Antonio Bay. And to the men on the Seagrass out on the water, there's a fog bank rolling in.

Just wanted to let you know about that and, you know, keep listening right here for more information. I don't know. I think you should moonlight as a sexy radio host. Thank you so much. You should be the next Delilah. I don't want to moonlight as anything other than being asleep in my bed.

I know. Same. It's just, you know, I ain't going to do a late night job. Sorry. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. But this town is a small town and the vibe is like, it's very funny. Literally everyone, the whole movie,

it only listens to this one radio station and does always have this radio station on. Like it's on at the bar. It's on on this boat. It's like, this is the only thing people listen to. They're just really dedicated to. It's a KAB, Antonio Bay. Everybody listens to KAB.

That's just what they do. So we cut to the seagrass it's three men they're pounding beers they hear Stevie over the radio and they're all talking about how hot Stevie is and one of them's like I saw her in the grocery store you would like to meet her uh we learned that she has a kid and that she owns the radio station um and one of them is looking out the window saying there's no fog out there what is she talking about and then all of a sudden we see fog appear in the distance and it looks like it's glowing we see like a bright green light coming through the fog and the guy's like the heck is that another guy comes over to look out the window and they're like what's going on out there and just then their generator blows

so they gotta go figure it out it's all dark now one of the men goes below deck to sort of check things out the other two go up top to look around them and see what might be going on. It's getting chilly all of a sudden. And the two men up top all of a sudden see, coming up to their boat, first they see a tattered, a mast and a tattered flag. And then, oh my goodness, it's like an old piratey ship. What the heck is this? And they're calling out, hello, who's there? What's going on?

And then through the fog, all of a sudden on their, there's fog surrounding them now, fog everywhere. And they see all of a sudden the silhouettes of two men with big hooks in one hand and swords standing still on the deck. And they say, hello? Hello? What do you want? And they get stabbed and hooked to death many times.

Oh! We have a third man below deck who's not hearing any of this, doesn't know what's going on. But it's pitch darkness. This is a very cool shot if we can just see, like, through the green light of the fog, like, water reflection on you know like that like ripply light it's a very beautiful shot um and he hears someone coming down there and it's like hello guys what's what's going on we see it is another of these mummy pirates. And this pirate immediately goes two quick stabs through each eye socket.

Oh, these pirates mean business. They fucking mean business. What was up with that pirate in the beginning, too? Like, why was he talking to those three kids? I mean, what's the story i mean what well he wasn't a pirate he was just an old seafaring man i seems like that what's the difference between that and a pirate huh plundering um yeah interesting okay so what's this movie trying to say yeah what's this movie trying to say about about sailors Is all I'm getting at. Interesting.

Let's hold that thought. I actually don't know if there's an answer. Then we get back to Stevie's radio tower lighthouse, and the weatherman, Dan, calls her again and says, all right, I think I actually, he only calls her sweeter. Hey, sweetheart, I think I was wrong about that fog bank. It's moving west, so I think it's actually going to miss that seagrass. So I gave you the wrong information. And she says, huh, my gauges must be wrong.

I see that the wind is blowing due east. What kind of fog moves against the wind? And he says, I don't know what to tell you. Then she hangs up. She's looking out her window. It's like 360 windows. We're in a lighthouse. And she's looking out at the fog, and she she can see it all the distance and then it disappears

oh she's staring like huh what is that cut to jamie lee and uh the guy who picked her up his name is nick uh post coital they are they are in bed um she i just feel like it's important to call out yes it was 1980 it at the time of this movie jamie lee curtis was 22 and the actor playing nick was 45 and they do look it they look she looks like a child he looks 45 and it's not a thing at all but it was a thing for me the whole time yeah yeah yeah um but they are you know they they're just laying in bed kind of getting to know each other he does say can i ask you a question and she says yeah and he says what's your name oh geez oh man they're just really what a pair um she's telling him she was hitchhiking up to Vancouver to start her life for herself.

I don't know. It's not really important, but that's what she was doing. But just then we hear someone knocking at the door and it's a very like, see if you can hear this. Kind of. It's just like, okay, well, I'm not going to try to redo it. It's just very slow and like knock knock a weird knock like not the way that a person does no and it's also like it sounds a little bit metallic like what are they using to knock on this door like a hook maybe but it could be a hook in fact we cut to outside the door and

we do just see a hook banging against that door yeah yep there it is um and he gets up nick gets up to uh go and see who might be there he's but he's taking him and he has to you know put his clothes back on and jamie is like who is that and uh just as he's getting up to go to the door his clock the glass on his clock shatters and we see that it is 1 a.m. and we hear Stevie signing off on the radio saying the witching hour is over. That's it for me. Broadcast I'll see you tomorrow at 6 p.m. This is Stevie signing off from KAB. Nick opens the door and there's nobody there. Nobody there. Everything's fine. Hmm. Hmm. next morning we see a little kid running on the beach he's got a he's just looking around for things uh he sees on some rocks a bit ahead a gold coin and so he's

like oh hell yeah i gotta go get that gold coin just before he goes to pick it up a wave sloshes over the rock and as it pulls back that gold coin is turned into a piece of driftwood. And the driftwood has the word Dane carved into it. Like carved like intentionally. It's like a sign or perhaps the name of a ship. He's all excited. He takes it home and he goes into his mom's room mom wake up look what i found on the beach and his mom is stevie she's very tired the woman was working until 1 a.m you know

we we know the drill um and so she come wakes up and he says mom look look at it. Cool. He asks her if he can have a stomach pounder and a Coke. She says maybe after lunch. And I have no idea what that means. What's a stomach pounder? No idea. Never heard that before. Why is it a thing you would have after you have lunch? Beats me.

It beats the hell out of me. it beats the hell out of me beats the hell out of me um but she just takes this wood she kind of looks at it nobody really thinks much of it but you know it did used to be a coin so that's kind of weird but you know she doesn't her son says and she's like yeah sure sure whatever um you're like six so you're full of lies um next morning uh we see nick and jamie lee i think her character name is beth but i am probably gonna call her jamie lee the whole great great great oh i'm good with that but they they go to the dock and nick is asking the guy at the docks about the seagrass i guess this is it's either his ship or these were his friends either way the ship should have been back by now and it's not so uh he's like you know let's the guy at the dock says you want me to take you out and we'll we'll go look for him and he says yes and he has jamie you want to come with me and he's she's like sure they're like they act like a full

couple from here on out and it is so strange to me she is like nuzzling into his chat like i just it's so bizarre i think it's very very strange but it just is what it is they're a couple now whatever yeah count this amongst your list of meet cutes you know how how did you guys meet how'd you guys meet hitchhiking hitchhiking and then a bunch of crazy shit started happening in our town we cut to this oh one mrs williams who's janet lee she is the chairperson for the town's 100th birthday celebration which is that day she's there with her assistant sandy who is also in halloween which is fun and they are planning the celebration for the town. And Mrs. Williams is reading off a list of things that need to get done to her assistant. And they have a very funny dynamic where the dynamic is very much this bitch between both of them.

But it also is somehow charming. Okay, okay. Janet Leigh, Mrs. Williams at one point says to her, Sandy, you can be a very annoying person at times but you do keep me together she also says at one point you're the only person who can make yes ma'am sound like screw you it's really an interesting little back and forth um they are then driving in their car to go run the next errand for tonight's celebration. And Mrs. Williams tells Sandy that her husband, who was out last night on the seagrass, still hasn't come home. And the strangest thing happened at midnight.

Her dog started barking out at the ocean and wouldn't stop barking. Sandy tells her, at midnight, my car alarm went off for no reason that's so strange that these weird things happened at midnight meanwhile nick and jamie they find the seagrass out on the water they board it no one on board the generator is filled with water but the deck looks dry all the glass on the boat is shattered. Jamie Lee says, just like with your car. I said, huh, what is going on? Cut back to Mrs. Williams and Sandy, and they are going to the old church that we saw at the beginning to talk to Father Malone about giving the benediction at the town celebration that night. When they get there, he is rattled by something. He says, I found this journal last

night. And he wants to read to them what he found. So he reads from the journal a story written by his grandfather, Father Malone, about the founding of this town, which is 100 years ago. About the founding of this town, which is 100 years ago. And the story is that James Blake, who we learn was a very wealthy man who had leprosy. And lived on a leper colony is what they call it in the movie. Had wanted to, had approached the Father Malone Sr. About wanting to move his colony to Antonio Bay and was going to give basically wanted the wanted fathers the Father Malone's permission to like settle there with his men and I think the incentive was like I have a lot of money so I'll be able to give money to

the town if you let us move there and Father Father Malone's journal says that, you know, he's very torn between his desire for mercy and his disgust at the idea of having men with this condition living in his town. Oh, interesting. So he says that he and five others come up with a plan to kill Blake and all of his men and steal their money. Oh my God. And he doesn't feel great about this but he himself knowing that the money will be used to build this town and make

a good life for lots of other people. Oh no. So these men are coming back. They might be coming back. Baby. And he says, on April 21st, the deed is done. We set a fire on the rocks to lure the ship in and were aided by a heavy fog that seemed heaven sent. The plan worked.

The men crashed on the rocks and fell to their deaths. And I don't feel great about it, but oh well. I don't feel great. What but oh well i don't feel what can you do dear diary i murdered a lot of people today and i don't feel great about it ttyl father malone we cut back to the seagrass and again we've searched the whole ship the men aren't there and nick and jamie lee are are sitting in one of the rooms on the ship and jamie lee says you know i think i'm bad luck which i'm like this is where she's so 22 to me where it's like honey this is not about you yeah yeah yeah i think i'm the reason why you can't find your friends like It's like this is a real adult crisis. Like men are missing and let's not make this about you.

But he says, I don't believe in luck, good or bad. But there is this one story my dad told me one time, which I remember was pretty strange. My dad was out on the water one night fishing and a ship approached their boat. And they boarded the boat, but there was nobody on it. It was completely empty. But there was a table set with food on it,

a steaming hot cup of coffee. It was as if people had just been there, but there was no one to be found. And my dad found on that ship a gold coin minted in Spain in the 1800s. And he took it home. He put it in his pocket. And when he came home to tell us the story and show us the coin, the coin was gone.

I always wondered what had happened with that ship. And just as he's telling that story, a dead body falls onto Jamie Lee Curtis. Oh, my God. It's the guy who had his eyeballs stabbed out so this like eyeless bloody whole corpse falls onto her cut to back at the church father malone uh is asked miss williams asked when did you when did you find this journal father and he says i found it last night at midnight the same time the conspirators planned the death of blake and his men and sandy and miss williams turned to each other and sandy says midnight that's the same time that that weird stuff was happening to us and father malone says

we're cursed we're all cursed sandy miss williams is sort of like i don't know that's probably no big deal uh miss williams says hey father maybe don't give the benediction tonight. I think that we're good. And he is staring out the window. We're all cursed. He's very troubled by this. And they're sort of like, OK, well. See you later.

See you later. We see Stevie going to work at the lighthouse. So we know it must be getting close to 6 p.m. We see her go up just so many stairs just so many stairs she gets up there she's settling in she's listening to on tape some kab promos i guess deciding which ones she's going to use and she brought the piece of driftwood that her son found and she sets it up on top of her tape player and she's looking out the window drinking her coffee listening to these promos and we see the piece of driftwood that her son found and she sets it up on top of her tape player and she's looking out the window drinking her coffee listening to these promos and we see the piece of driftwood all of a

sudden start to get sopping wet and it's dripping and it's dripping water down onto the tape player and it starts the tape player starts fritzing out and sparking and the voices that are saying you know k.a.b you're the source of music for antonio bay starts during really sinister and it's saying wait wait it's really good i have to i have to find out what it okay so the voice all of a sudden says damn them all and then the wood the message on the wood changes from saying Dane to six must die and then it bursts into flames. She turns around.

She sees that she immediately has a fire extinguisher right there with her. I'm like, this woman's prepared. Good for you. She extinguishes it. She goes back to look at it and it's back to a regular piece of driftwood that says Dane. It doesn't look like it ever caught fire very strange some might say way too strange too much too much too much to continue on like nothing has happened precisely but so she she calls her son at home

and this is the 80s he's home alone at this point but his babysitter does come over while she's on the phone with him she's i guess their neighbor her name is mrs kobritz she's an older woman probably in her 70s but stevie calls and she says andy where did you find that piece of wood so i told you i found it on the beach it used to be a gold coin and then it turned into a piece of wood and she says andy don't pick up anything else off the beach and please promise me you're not going to leave the house tonight. Oh, Mom. Andy promised me. Okay. She hangs up.

She's clearly freaked out, but she's like, okay, gotta get to work. Steals herself. Clicks the on-air button. Hi, Antonio Bay. It's Stevie here, and it's the happy 100th birthday, Antonio Bay. The celebration is happening in Town Square tonight. And hopefully you'll all be there. And I'll be here to keep you company until that time.

Puts on some jazz music. Great. We see we're back. Now we're at the coroner's office. And he's examining the body that was found on the seagrass. And he pulls Nick aside to talk to him about it where they're like in this medical examination room it's not a morgue but it's it's like more looks more like a doctor's office and so the coroner pulls nick aside to tell him what he

has seen and leaves jamie lee sitting in the room with the corpse just like covered on the table and the coroner tells nick this body has been underwater for a long time this body has signs of having been underwater for like at least a month his lungs are filled with fluid there's seaweed in his clothes there's silt under his fingernails but he says i just saw his name is dick something i just saw dick three days ago there's no way he'd been underwater for a month why does he look like that also why are his eyes stabbed out and they're you know they're very confused by this like how can a man drown when he's on top of a shit like none of it makes sense. And while they're talking, we see the corpse hand come out from under the sheet. Oh, here we go.

Go over to the medical tray next to him. Pick up a scalpel. Jamie Lee's not noticing a damn thing. We see one foot get onto the ground. Other foot get onto the ground. He stands up. We see him approaching, coming up behind Jamie Lee. Goes for her. Misses because he has no eyes. Falls onto the ground. He stands up. We see him approaching, coming up behind Jamie Lee, goes for her, misses because he has no eyes, falls to the ground.

All the noise. She screams. Nick in the corner. Come back in. Everything's fine. The corpse is back to being a corpse, completely lifeless on the ground. But with that scalpel hand, he's carved into the ground the number three. OK, I thought it was six.

Well, three have died. well three three have died oh three have died already right now we're down to three okay down to three so we're seeing darkness fall over antonio bay just cutting through the streets we're seeing okay it is night time the celebration for the town is about to start but we see Nick and the sheriff are talking to Mrs. Williams and they're telling her, we found the seagrass. We did not find your husband. We still got to go out and look for him, but you know, obviously it's not looking good. And she says, you know, well, I need to go out and speak at the town celebration. And Sandy says, I really don't think you should. And she says, the chairperson can't miss the celebration.

So I think it's exactly what I ought to do. She goes out. Nick hears Stevie's radio station is playing in the bar that they're in. And she says, got a bulletin from the Coast Guard. They found the seagrass, but no news about the men on board. And I'll keep you posted when I get any more news. And for everyone else, I hope you steer clear of any fog you might see out in the water. And Nick hears this and thinks, I got to give her a call.

So he calls the radio station. He says, hi, you don't know me. My name is Nick, but I'm one of the men who found the seagrass. And you mentioned something about fog last night. And she says, immediately just trusts him and tells him everything and says yeah you know it's the strangest thing i know it doesn't sound right but i saw the fog last night i saw it disappear but before it disappeared it was looked like it was glowing and you know it might be completely, but my son also found a piece of driftwood earlier that spontaneously combusted.

Yeah. Something doesn't seem right. And so Nick decides he's going to go to the lighthouse to see her, find out what else she knows. And she also we see in the light of she has a perfect vantage point basically of the whole town so she can see the fog coming in so i think next like all right let's go there and of course jamie lee comes with him because they are a full-fledged couple if you're a new parent a bad day means you either ran out of coffee diapers patience or all of the above stocking up on cold brew and deep breaths are all you, but at least Hello

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hold on and puts him on hold and turns all her lights off so she can see the fog more clearly and she does see fog in the distance and it's glowing. And so she's like, oh, no, no. She gets on the radio and she says, I have an important bulletin. The fog is heading towards the weather station at whatever address, because the weatherman had said, meteorologist, I suppose, said, looks like the fog, fog's heading this direction. It'll be outside my door in five minutes.

So she says it over the radio. see nick and jamie lee hear it and so they start driving there instead because they're like we got to figure out what's up with this fog back to steve being on the phone with dan and she says dan tell me where the fog is what what's happening now and he says oh well looks like it's looks like it's right here and he looks out and his windows are completely it's so he's made as a meteorologist this fog is unlike anything it's true i mean it looks like a big smoke machine it is like funneling through under the door every pocket it can get through around the windows filling the room like smoke, not like fog at all. And he's like, oh, yeah, pretty foggy. It's like, hmm, cool. And just as that's happening, his power goes out at the weather station.

And he's like, oh, man, someone must be playing a prank. And then he says, what's that glowing? Someone's out there flashing some lights in here oh my god stevie's freaking out she's saying dan stay away from the fog something's not right with the fog and he's like oh honey don't even worry about it i've seen fog my whole life i'm a meteorologist just then we hear some hook like knocking at his door and he go oh this prankster wants to come talk to me oh my gosh hold on sweetheart i gotta get the door and she's like don't get the door and he puts the phone down and he walks over the door he opens it no one's really there he sees a red glow now coming from outside

he walks out hello and hook to the neck dan is dead and over the phone it's like we hear him dying and stevie hears him dying and is now like oh fuck yeah this shit's real now this shit is real yeah yeah yeah we gotta take this seriously stevie yeah save the town save the town stevie needs to save the town and so she hangs up the phone she looks out her window and she now sees the fog is rolling in to the town she gets over the radio and she asks for the sheriff to give her a call at kab she says i've got an important important bulletin for the sheriff sheriff please give me a call at kab 555-2341 call me at kab but as we sheriff we see the sheriff hears this he's at the the celebration for the town but one of his deputies comes up and whispers in his ear you

gotta we you know the radio station that we all listen to the lady's asking for you so he slips back into the bar next door gets on the pay phone to call her she picks up sheriff he says yes what's going on and as soon as soon as they get on that phone we see the fog rolling over some power lines or some phone lines and snap snap snap all the phone lines go down no that fog is sneaky we're hearing also meanwhile the ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding very like carpenter music playing we see the fog coming into the town it hits the town power plant ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding Shit. So Stevie looks out her window and sees that fog is heading straight for her house. No. So she runs down her many stairs and starts pumping her generator, pulling that cord, trying to get it going.

It's not going. It's not going. She's freaking out. She's like, come on, come on, come on. Cut to her house. We see that fog is coming in heavy. Mrs. Kobritz has the good sense to be scared and is like, this is weird.

I don't like this. She tells Andy, Andy, we should close all the windows. We should close the doors or the windows in your bedroom. Close. Go check. And just as we're checking on those windows, we hear knock, knock, knock on the

door. And Mrs. Kobritz says, Andy andy go go to your room go go to your room and shut the door so she has enough sense to do that but she does for some reason feel as if she must open the door oh god so she's shooing andy away to his room he finally turns around to head to his room the second she opens the door and she immediately gets hooked and killed oh my god that's five that's five down oh shit and now they're gonna try to kill the little boy like there's so many adults to choose so many adults to choose i don't think these pirates fucking care uh but just then stevie is able to get her generator going oh thank god she runs back up the stairs and she gets on the radio and she screams my son is trapped by the fog anybody who hears this go to my address six four five beach street i don't know please please please my son is trapped with the

fog you have to get my son out we see nick and jamie lee they're in their car. They hear this on the radio. They pull a U-turn and they book it to her address. But we see. Oh, no. At Andy's door, he's hiding in his room. And we see a hook start slashing through his door, breaking down that wood. That's fucked up. Trying to get in. It's that wood. That's fucked up. Trying to get in.

It's fucked up. It's fucked up. Spare the kid. Spare the kid. But, you know, just as this pirate is getting through this door, we see he's about to get in. Nick and Jamie Lee come. Nick walks around the house. He breaks through the window of Andy's room, picks Andy up through all of these shards of glass.

Somehow they're both magically fine. Nobody cares about glass. No one cares about glass. Glass is not dangerous in this world. Doesn't exist in the universe. Nope. He picks Andy up, gets him out of the room just in time. But they get into their car to drive away.

And the tires are trapped in mud. And so we're revving the gas. And they're just spinning, spinning, spinning. We're in the car. We're trying to drive away. We're trying to drive away. And as we're trying to drive away, we see three, four pirates with hooks

slowly approaching the car. And I mean slowly. John Carpenter is obsessed with slow murderers. They are... Take Michael Myers and slow him down. They are, take Michael Myers and slow him down by like 50%. Like they are so slow.

So they do manage to finally get the car going. Drive away just in the nick of time before the pirates can reach him. Over the radio, Stevie is saying, Andy, Andy, if you can hear this, I'm so sorry i couldn't come for you i i hope you're okay and i and i hope you know why i i need to stay here okay antonio bay

the fog is it's moving in towards the city center you know she's she's now the one person who can save the town you know she also just simply wouldn't have gotten there in time too many stairs right right but she's announcing over the radio the fog is now on every city street it's heading towards the edges of town the only safe place at this point that the fog has not gotten to is the old church head to the old church if you can hear this head to the old church uh-oh we see nick and jamie lee hear it they're driving there we see mrs williams and sandy have started they've driven home they're driving home from the celebration because at one point the sheriff comes up to her and he's like hey i've

been listening to the radio and i think we should probably end this the woman on the radio is losing her shit and i think maybe something's going on so mrs williams and sandy are you know they're they're on their way home they hear it and they're like okay i guess we gotta drive to the old church and what is so funny to me is these are the only people who hear this radio broadcast and these are the only people who head to the church like it's just them it's just them which is the only people who matter at this point but nobody else goes okay okay also probably smart because i feel like wouldn't they hate the church the most i mean father what's his name i mean you would think father malone you would think yeah um it's just it's the last place that the fog hasn't

reached i suppose um and stevie doesn't know the story about the pirates. Of course, of course. All she knows is the fog is bad, you know? But I guess everybody's power is out, so maybe these are the only people who hear it because they're listening to their car radios, you know? I don't know. Do radios use electricity at that time?

No, probably not. It doesn't matter. It doesn't. Yeah, probably not. But also, who cares? yeah probably not but also who cares also who cares so they go to the church so now it's it's there for those four no five i guess andy uh jamie lee curtis nick mrs williams sandy at the church and father malone is there so they get inside they head for the study which is i guess the most secure room that they can find but wouldn't you believe it the fog is approaching the church at the radio station stevie's looking out the windows

and she sees the fog has moved up and it is going to reach her as well. She is also not safe from this fog. And the tower is like, there's like a little metal spiral staircase to the door. So from upstairs, she hears hook knocking that door downstairs. She goes down to see if she can brace the door. She can't do it. She got to run up and she goes out the window and she's like hiding along the

balcony. At the church mrs williams asks father malone to get the journal and see if there's any explanation to what might be happening and they realize they put all their information they've all had together and realize six people have to die. For the six conspirators. That planned Blake's death. And they count off who they know has died. The three on the boat. Mrs. Kobritz. And the weatherman.

So there's just one more. Just one more needs to die. Just as they're realizing this. Another stone falls out of the wall revealing a giant giant cross made of pure gold and that this was the money they stole from blake they put it into a gold cross and hid it in the walls sure don't know how that serves anybody no there you go sure don't know how that serves anybody no there you go

so father Malone grabs that cross meanwhile pirates are breaking through the windows of the study trying to grab for the people inside I mean it's on the death has a prize has reached them but father Malone

he walks out into the sanctuary and it's filled with smoke and we see a bunch of pirate mummy zombies in there staring at him it's gorgeous it looks like this moment to me looks like a really really great high school play of like a freak tragedy where it's like that kind of smoke and it's like really well lit and they're like standing in a really nice little formation i was like this would be a cool play they all have glowing red eyes by the way these pirates and father malone stands in front of them and he says blake blake i have your gold take me the the grandson of father malone. I deserve to answer for his actions.

So he is sacrificing himself on this cross to the pirates. Okay. Meanwhile, Stevie has had to climb up onto the roof to try to get away from this pirate coming towards her. We see a hook come up onto the roof, followed by this pirate climbing up. She's backing away, trying to back away from him. When she gets all of a sudden, we see a scary shot. Another pirate behind her we didn't know was there. He stabs her. She's able to grab his hook, but now she is fighting for her life on the slanted roof against two pirates. It is not looking good. We're cutting back and forth between that,

two pirates. It is not looking good. We're cutting back and forth between that, Father Malone with Blake. Other pirates are trying to kill the other people in the study. It's very tense. It's all happening. Blake walks up to Father Malone. He unsheathes his sword and he puts his hands on the cross and the cross begins to glow so bright and smoke is coming out from the cross it looks like it's white hot and he's touching the cross father malone is holding the cross and stevie is on the lighthouse and she's fighting these two pirates. And oh my god, what's going to happen? And then just then the cross, there's an explosion. Father Malone falls back. Everybody else comes out into the sanctuary to see what's going on. We stand up.

Pirates are gone. Cross is gone. Fog is receding. Wow. Fog is pulling away. Stevie looks up. Pirates are gone. Fog going away.

Wow. They all come together. Oh my gosh. We're safe. I guess we're safe. Father Malone stands up. Oh, my gosh. We're safe. I guess we're safe. Father Malone stands up. He's totally fine. I thought for sure he was going to melt.

Yeah, he didn't melt. Not dead? Not dead. Not dead. Okay. Stevie gets back onto the radio, and she says, Antonio Bay, maybe that's what the quote is about in the beginning, if all of this was real, if this wasn't a nightmare nightmare and we wake up in the morning safe in our beds,

this could happen again. So beware of the fog. Any sailors out there, make sure to look across the darkness. Look for the fog. We see Father Malone walking around his sanctuary alone. Everyone else is gone, I suppose. Looking around, he says to himself, Why not six, Blake?

Why not me? And we see Fogg start to creep in under his door. Oh, no. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Turns around. Blake is right in front of him slash credits oh my god blake was like don't test me don't test me i'll take you i'll fucking get you whoa that was fun i gotta say i gotta say from

the second you said it was like a high school production. The only thing I could think about was how do we get high schools to produce this all over the country? Because I want to see this on the stage. I would love to see a high school production of The Fog. Oh, my God. That's a good idea. Well, how funny would that be? I can't you just imagine a high schooler up in that up in that lighthouse that's permanently in the corner of the stage and absolutely incredible i think that there's a lot

of opportunity here for any high schoolers who are listening um wow so yeah so was it a dream was it real it's about how the past is gonna come back and get us so we better fucking atone for our sins it's also just yeah it's uh my friend marty recent guest on on this podcast host of physical therapy movie podcast described it as like an like an episode of scoobyDoo, but scary, like with murder. And it's like a very classic ghost story with a fun little kind of pirate theme. It's funny because the tension is great. The final 30 minutes are really intense and really fun. It's also, I just kept feeling like the stakes feel really low to me because at this point we only only one more person is gonna die right right like i'm sort of like

all right who cares i guess just one more person's gonna to me the fact that i knew it was only gonna be six the fact the fog was like rolling in all over town i'm like yeah but they're all gonna be fine right it's gonna be fine because it's just one more person right right right right but they don't know that obviously you know and maybe the pirates would change your mind and want to take the whole town what what do i know about what these pirates intend you know i don't think i've ever seen a one episode of scooby-doo really i don't like don't even really know what that means i mean i know scooby-doo is like they solve a mystery week and they're a bunch of it's always like seems like a monster or something yeah something supernatural is and then it's a person in a costume for some reason okay I think that's pretty much always the always the end result of Scooby-Doo

correct me if I'm wrong I've watched the one about the chupacabra so many times for whatever reason like every Spanish class I ever took growing up was like probably at halloween we should watch the scooby-doo episode about chupacabra um nope so anyway did that okay okay fascinating um yeah that's right like the stakes feel so low that it's a little silly and it could have easily been pg if they just removed a few key moments. Yeah. But I still really enjoyed it. It was really fun.

It's really fun. It's just like a fun, silly watch. I also just love the idea of a radio station in a lighthouse helmed by a woman. I just love that. It's fucking cool. I want that. She does a great job. She's very good at her job. I also love

the idea of a small town only listening to one radio station. I love it too. There's something very comforting in all of this. I completely agree. I really do. And so yeah, part of the fog day tradition

sounds like they get a fog machine, make fog happen in their house, change out some of the light bulbs for green, green light, make a pirate themed cocktails and watch the fog. That's great. Oh, wow. So I'd encourage everyone to participate in your own fog day if you would like. I think anyone can watch this movie for sure it's not too

scary there are people out there who really just living life living life absolutely wow um and yeah so the the it's really like this it's shot really beautifully obviously it's all practical effects because it's Carpenter. So it looks really cool. So yeah, the scene with Stevie on top of the lighthouse at the end, when the fog recedes, that was the part that they needed to shoot to be played in reverse, which is very cool. They originally did not have the scene with stevie at the lighthouse at the end they did not have the scene of the corpse attacking jamie lee curtis but those were added to make

it scarier okay um and longer and i i think that those are both very good scenes to have the movie although the scene of the corpse attacking jamie lee is like doesn't really make sense in the context of the greater movie like none of the other corpses come to life in the movie. Although the scene with the corpse attacking Jamie Lee doesn't really make sense in the context of the greater movie. None of the other corpses come to life. In fact, we don't even see any of the other bodies. But, you know, who cares? It's fun. Who cares?

It's fun and spooky. Who cares? We got more Jamie Lee time. That's all I care about. Exactly. Oh, my God. Emily, I loved it. Thank you.

Oh, my God. I'm so glad. Thank you. I told you. Easy breezy, you know? It was easy breezy. And I don't think these are the ghosts that are in your house. Yeah, TBD on those ghosts.

I think the ghosts that are in your house are probably much scarier. I think they are, you know, something to me about, like, a California ghost just doesn't seem as scary to me as a New England ghost. Yeah, California ghosts are so chill. Like a California beach ghost? I don't know, man. I mean, these guys were mean, but also, I don't know. They're pretty straightforward. They were really abiding by some strict rules.

If you just play by those rules, everything's okay. Yeah, I think I feel good about my New England ghosts. I feel comfortable. I mean, I'm really glad. I'm really glad because, you know, you're the one who has to deal with them. I know. I know. Well, TBD on that.

TBD. Okay. Well, I love you and thank you. I love you and thank you. I love you. And I have to go so I can start negotiations with the ghosts over the life of my children. Okay, yeah, that's an important thing to get to. That is a really important thing to handle. And so, you know, I'll sign us off with a little radio voice.

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