The Fog (1980) Ending Scene

The Fog is a 1980 horror movie directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and composed the music for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins and Janet Leigh. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps in over a small coastal town in California, bringing with it the vengeful ghosts of mariners who were killed in a shipwreck there exactly 100 years earlier.
The Fog was Carpenter's first feature film after the success of his 1978 horror Halloween, which also starred Jamie Lee Curtis. Though not as big a success as Halloween, the film received some good reviews (with a 69% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes[1]) and was also a commercial success. A remake of the film was made in 2005.
The fishing town of Antonio Bay in California is about to celebrate its centennial. With preparations for the celebration underway, the centennial is also marked by a series of ominous events, including the appearance of a supernatural glowing fog that spreads over land and sea and moves against the wind.
The night before the town's celebration, Father Malone, the town's priest, finds his grandfather's diary from a hundred years earlier. The diary reveals that in 1880, six of the founders of Antonio Bay (including Malone's grandfather) deliberately sank and plundered a clipper ship named the Elizabeth Dane. The ship was owned by Blake, a wealthy man with leprosy who wanted to establish a colony near Antonio Bay. During a foggy night, the six conspirators lit a fire on the beach near treacherous rocks, and the crew of the ship, deceived by the false beacon, crashed into them. Everyone aboard the ship perished. The six conspirators were motivated both by greed and disgust at the notion of having a leper colony nearby. Antonio Bay and its church were then founded with the gold plundered from the ship.
As midnight strikes and the date of the town's centennial begins, three local fishermen are gruesomely murdered by supernatural attackers after the fog covers their trawler whilst out at sea. A ghostly looking clipper ship is seen pulling alongside their fishing trawler. The mysterious fog contains the vengeful ghosts of Blake and the clipper ship's crew, who have come back on the hundredth anniversary of the shipwreck and the founding of the town to take the lives of six people (symbolic substitutes for the six conspirators).
Original theatrical poster
Directed by John Carpenter
Produced by Charles B. Bloch
Debra Hill
Barry Bernardi
Pegi Brotman
Written by John Carpenter
Debra Hill
Starring Adrienne Barbeau
Jamie Lee Curtis
John Houseman
Janet Leigh
Hal Holbrook

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[antoniomvr]

great movie!!!

[romas1995]

i dont think the film ended here , there is a scene where father mallone was alone in the church and the pirates come back to kill him.

[goofygoat2009]

what a great movie this was and i'm not even a horror fan

[manhoot]

@romas1995 You are correct.

[ridder6689]

Haha Rob Bottin he's one hell of a SFX artist, its such a shame entertainment media wasnt as big then like it is now othewise that one little role he got as blake would have launched him a nice acting carrer on the side too.

[freddie26123]

@romas1995

you're right...

[goldenhitsoftheking]

I WATCHED ALL THE MOVIES ( HORROR IN THE 1970'S-1980'S ) THE FOG, THE THING, THE FLY, CAT PEOPLE, HOWLING, SCANNNERS,. ANYWAY TODAY TV SUCKS MOVIES ARE REMIND FROM CLASSICS. YOU MAY CALL IT LOBSTER BUT ITS CRAB MEAT MINCED. ALL OF US TRUE HORROR FANS NEED TO GO TO HOLLYWOOD AND SHOW THEM HOW REAL HORROR MOVIES ARE DONE. DONT LOOK IN THE BASEMENT MOVIE WAS A LOT BETTER THAN BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. I M JUST SAYING.

[tumak1966]

we have a lot of fog here. it makes me wonder some times.

[bloodyusernamedammit]

I love this so much, only thing is that if that cross was real gold, no way in hell would he be able to hold it up like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kittencrazysim]

I watched this on my TV the other night, Im ike 13 and I like scary things but at like 1am its fricken scary. I do love this movie so much!! Epic! :D

[TheDarryl76]

This is the scariest scene ever from the scariest movie ever.After 30 years,it still gives me chills.Like great movies before and after,it was sodomized by the remake monsters.Great,scary films with established actors get morphed into unwatchable movies with TV and reality stars blowing out crappy dialogue,cheesy CGI and adding details that have nothing to do with the orginal plot.It has nothing to with the times,they're great horror moviesthat come out today;just STOP DESTROYING THE CLASSICS!!

[Dac719]

@axeamnas I never saw it in the theater. But, somebody I used to know told me that the sequel was to show Father Malone getting killed (without cutting to black). But, I don't remember what else was supposed to happen in the never-made sequel. So sad that the sequel was never made. I wonder what it would have been like? I'm not talking about the remake, made in 2005 (I think). I mean, the direct sequel to this film that was never made.