The Fog

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Asshole Victim: Averted. The conspirators who sank the Elizabeth Dane would qualify as this, but all of them are dead by the time of the film and the victims the ghosts do claim as revenge are all perfectly nice people who had nothing to do with it. The closest anyone gets to being one of these is Al Williams, and he's at worst a little gruff. Meaningful Echo: Sandy sarcastically responds with "yes ma'am" whenever Kathy Williams says something. Later on after hearing that her husband has been killed she asks Sandy to take her home, and Sandy says "yes ma'am" affectionately.

I enjoyed the real estate aspects of the plot. I also liked the way that Dubus has us ride along with each character giving us free access to their inner thoughts, their hopes, and desires. He also shows how many chances people get to turn their life around. The many hands that are outstretched to keep them from falling too far. Sometimes it just doesn’t matter how much help someone receives they continue to make the same bad decisions until tragedy overtakes them sometimes with equally tragic results for others. Subverted. Stevie's panic slowly starts to increase but she keeps her act together long enough to warn people about the fog and to fight off the ghosts. This is a Justified Trope—she is trapped in a lighthouse while her home and her son are left at the mercy of undead ghosts and all she can do is spread warnings over the radio, with no guarantee that she'll be heard.Sex Signals Death: Almost pointedly averted — perhaps due to Carpenter's last film having arguably established the trope, which baffled him . One of the first scenes involves two characters having anonymous casual sex after knowing each other for about an hour, which in another horror movie would instantly mark them as future victims. It's barely dwelled upon and both characters survive unharmed. One-Steve Limit: Averted. One of the protagonists is called Elizabeth, and the ship that Blake captained was called the Elizabeth Dane. There's no connection - except in the remake.

Stevie advises everyone to head to the town's church through her broadcast. Inside, the group finds a gold cross in the wall cavity, made from the rest of the stolen gold. Malone, knowing that the ghosts have returned to take six lives in lieu of the six original conspirators, offers the gold and himself to spare the others. Blake seizes the gold cross and he and his crew disappear in a flash of light. The fog also vanishes.British author James Herbert (1953-2013) was the director of an advertising agency before striking it big as a horror author around the time Stephen King was doing the same thing accross the Atlantic. Herbert’s first novel, 1974's The Rats , began a successful 23-novel career with worldwide sales exceeding 50 million copies. I’ve heard great things about Herbert and decided to start with his second book, 1975’s The Fog .