Sure, why not more John Carpenter!
One hundred years after a ship went missing, it returns, hooray! It also brings fog, moving in strange ways, more hooray! Oh, and death for anyone that crosses its path... hooray? We have a small town where the ship returns, and we follow a handful of people who are important to the story (important, in that they are on screen), and a lot of people who manage to escape by being off screen. One is a radio dj, another is a random driver (I'm sure he does something important, but I missed it) and a hitchhiker he picks up that goes where he does. The mayor and her aide, and one priest to round out... One of them are vital to solving this problem, and the others just try to survive.
What a cast eh? Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Hal Halbrook... and John Houseman as someone I can't even remember seeing. The fog effect is straight forward, and the creature effects are decent (although we only get a tiny glimpse of them in close up).
The movie is a bit "supernatural just because" with no real explanation other than "so we can have a supernatural movie". This isn't terrible, but makes it hard to follow the story logically when the why is just "because that's what I wrote in the script."
Still, a cracker of a movie, check it out!
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