Get inside and lock your doors. There’s something in the fog! Carpenter’s eerie pirate ghost story is an understated gem full of atmospheric appeal about a quiet Californian town that gets a rude awakening when a glowing fog reveals a shady past that comes back to haunt the local residents.

The quaint seaside town of Antonio Bay is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. But when a mysterious, iridescent fog descends upon the village and people begin dying in an increasingly violent manner, the townspeople can only wait and pray that they are not the next victim when it next starts to roll in. But when rumours of a secret as old as the town begin to surface from the depths, it’s the current inhabitants who realise it is they that will pay the ultimate price for their forefathers' actions and murderous greed.

Containing yet another iconic electronic score that adeptly added to the film’s ethereal chill, Carpenter adapted his now signature minimalist themes and haunting piano to fit the precise mechanics of a great ghost story. And in the process delivered a beautifully constructed shocker that had atmosphere to burn.

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