The original version of The Fog was written and directed by horror-meister John Carpenter. We hear a gunshot and then hear a dog yelp. Two pale corpses are pulled up in a fishing net, and later we see their bodies in the morgue. Several scenes show dead bodies, one with his eyes cut out. Nick smashes into a ghoul with his pickup truck, with the results on his windshield looking like he hit a giant bug.
Another woman almost drowns after falling through the floor of a boathouse, and we see her struggling to free herself from kelp and seaweed as she gasps for air.
The driver struggles to free herself as the vehicle submerges. Several car wrecks are shown, and in one the car careens over a cliff and into the water. Various bodies are hurled through windows.Ī man is killed when a flying knife embeds in his forehead, and the scene is repeated on a videotape that captured the death from a different angle. (Her grandson finds her body this way.) A man is killed by huge shards of broken glass, and another is thrown across the room, where he crashes into a glass case. In other scenes, victims of the vengeful ghouls are set afire themselves, and in one instance the flaming body is thrown through a door and across a room.Ī woman dies an agonizing death as her flesh putrefies before her eyes and then drips from her body she falls to the floor as a grotesque skeleton. That imagery is repeated several times throughout the film. As the ship burns, we see flaming bodies tumble into the water. In a flashback, four men lock a ship’s passengers below deck and set the vessel afire. Can God forgive a man for the sin I’m about to commit?” Two of the town’s present residents are apparently reincarnated murder victims. He also paraphrases Jeremiah 32:18, saying, “God will visit the sins of the fathers upon their children.”Įlizabeth reads from a town father’s journal: “May God forgive my soul. Elizabeth frequently has dreams and visions of the ship’s doomed passengers.įather Malone finds a biblical warning scrawled on a sarcophagus in the town’s cemetery: “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin.” (It’s the handwriting on the wall described in Daniel 5:25-28.) Father Malone does not adequately translate it, though, leaving out the meaning of mene in Daniel 5:26 (“God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end”) and translating only tekel from Daniel 5:27 (“You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting”). The underlying premise of the film is that of vengeful ghouls, who seem at times to have bodies (albeit ghastly rotting ones) and other times seem to be wispy spirits.