Release date: February 8, 1980
A vengeful leper colony returns to a sleepy coastal town on the 100-year anniversary of their drowning.
Director John Carpenter's creepy ghost story still holds up, immediately creating a spooky atmosphere with the opening sequence featuring John Houseman spinning a scary yarn for a group of wide-eyed children - and it only gets more intense from there. Adrienne Barbeau is super-sexy as the smoky-voiced DJ who runs a radio station from the town's lighthouse, and Carpenter geeks out with the casting of Psycho's Janet Leigh as the stressed-out organizer of Antonio Bay's 100-year anniversary celebration. The fog effects are relatively simple and nothing short of ingenious, not to mention a thousand times more effective and convincing than the 2005 remake's reliance on CGI.
John Carpenter (director), Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, Tom Atkins, James Canning, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Loomis, Ty Mitchell, George 'Buck' Flower.
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