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* TheAlcoholic: Nick Castle, Tommy Wallace, Al Williams, and Dick Baxter all get drunk when out fishing on the ''Seagrass'', though never drunk enough to be unable to sail back to shore.
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Kobritz.
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Kobritz.Kobritz, who is like a second mother to Andy and protects him as best she can from the ghosts.
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*** Justified, since his rescuers, Nick and Elizabeth, have no idea who she is, and have more pressing matters to deal with, like avoiding being killed by the ghosts.
*** Justified, since his rescuers, Nick and Elizabeth, have no idea who she is, and have more pressing matters to deal with, like avoiding being killed by the ghosts.
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** When Andy is rescued from his house, no one asks about the fate of his babysitter Mrs Kobritz. [[DownplayedTrope He does briefly mention her towards the end as one of the victims though.]]
***]] Justified, since his rescuers, Nick and Elizabeth, have no idea who she is, and have more pressing matters to deal with, like avoiding being killed by the ghosts.
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** Double subverted when it comes to Kathy's husband Al. After finding out he's dead, she's clearly devastated, but chooses to put on a brave face for the sake of the festival. He doesn't get mentioned after that again.
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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: The ghosts kill [[spoiler: six people]]. Only one is female.
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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: The ghosts kill [[spoiler: six people]]. Only one is female. There is a considerable amount of tension when Andy is potentially attacked by the ghosts but being a child grants him that exception.
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* PluckyComicRelief: Dan O'Bannon.
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* PluckyComicRelief: Dan O'Bannon.O'Bannon usually drops a few funny lines whenever he appears on screen.
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* DeathBySex: Almost pointedly averted -- perhaps due to Carpenter's [[Film/Halloween1978 last film]] having arguably established the trope, which [[https://aiyonna.wordpress.com/2018/11/18/john-carpenter-returns-to-usc-for-40th-anniversary-of-halloween/ baffled him]]. [[spoiler: 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.]]
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Blake, the leader of the murderous zombie ghosts, has red GlowingEyes.
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* AxCrazy: Implied with Blake, who’s vows of revenge over the tape player quickly descend into WordSaladHorror.
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* AxCrazy: Implied with Blake, who’s whose vows of revenge over the tape player quickly descend into WordSaladHorror.
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* AssholeVictim: 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 Father Malone’s grandfather was consumed with guilt over it, 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 bring one of these is Al Williams, and he’s just an average joe.
* TheAlcoholic: Nick Castle, Tommy Wallace, Al Williams, and Dick Baxter all get drunk when out fishing on the ''Seagrass'', though never drunk enough to be unable to sail back to shore.
* AxCrazy: Implied with Blake, who’s vows of revenge over the tape player quickly descend into WordSaladHorror.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Kobritz.
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** Sandy, Kathy Williams's snarky assistant.
** Sandy, Kathy Williams's snarky assistant.
** Dan O'Bannon gets some in too.
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* EverytownAmerica: Despite being a seaside town, what we see of Antonio Bay fits the trope. The festival even looks a bit like a 4th July celebration.
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* EverytownAmerica: Despite being a seaside town, what we see of Antonio Bay fits the trope. The festival even looks a bit like a 4th of July celebration.
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* EyeScream: One of the fishermen gets stabbed right through the eyes.
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* EyeScream: One of the fishermen Dick Baxter gets stabbed right through the eyes.eyes.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Al Williams is a rare case where we get to meet his family, or in this case his wife.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Al Williams is a rare case where we get to meet his family, or in this case his wife.
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: When Andy is rescued from his house, no one asks about the fate of his babysitter Mrs Kobritz. He does briefly mention her towards the end as one of the victims though.
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: When ForgottenFallenFriend:
**When Andy is rescued from his house, no one asks about the fate of his babysitter Mrs Kobritz. [[DownplayedTrope He does briefly mention her towards the end as one of the victims though.]]
*** Justified, since his rescuers, Nick and Elizabeth, have no idea who she is, and have more pressing matters to deal with, like avoiding being killed by the ghosts.
** Otherwise averted, since Nick’s motivation is finding out what happened to his friends on the ''Seagrass'', and Stevie is appropriately horrified and saddened when she heard [[spoiler:Dan]] being killed over the phone.
**When Andy is rescued from his house, no one asks about the fate of his babysitter Mrs Kobritz. [[DownplayedTrope He does briefly mention her towards the end as one of the victims though.]]
*** Justified, since his rescuers, Nick and Elizabeth, have no idea who she is, and have more pressing matters to deal with, like avoiding being killed by the ghosts.
** Otherwise averted, since Nick’s motivation is finding out what happened to his friends on the ''Seagrass'', and Stevie is appropriately horrified and saddened when she heard [[spoiler:Dan]] being killed over the phone.
* PluckyComicRelief: Dan O'Bannon.
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:[[PluckyComicRelief Dan]] is dragged off into the fog by the ghosts/zombies as they begin to directly attack the town.]]
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* UngratefulBastard: Father Malone, seeking to atone for his grandfather's crimes (despite having no hand in them), gives the gold to Blake's zombie in exchange for sparing the townsfolk's lives. Blake retreats...then comes back and kills him anyway to satisfy the kill count.
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* UngratefulBastard: Father [[spoiler:Father Malone, seeking to atone for his grandfather's crimes (despite having no hand in them), gives the gold to Blake's zombie in exchange for sparing the townsfolk's lives. Blake retreats...then comes back and kills him anyway to satisfy the kill count.]]
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: The addition of a pre-credits DistantPrologue, in which Blake and his undead pals are implied to have killed the four men who torched their ship ''immediately after their crime'' rather detracts from the notion that they're TragicVillain-types: if, after all, they ''already did'' avenge themselves upon their actual killers, it's a lot harder to sympathize with their retribution against townsfolk who know nothing about a century-old atrocity, and whose ancestors probably didn't even live on the island at the time.]]
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* CuriosityKilledTheCast: [[spoiler: Dan wanting to check out the fog after hearing a knock at the door of the weather station quickly makes him the fourth victim.]]
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* MisplacedRetribution: The Fog Zombies are acting out of revenge against the town that murdered them, seeking to kill six people specifically, but kill indiscriminately. They then leave after their kill count is satisfied, and even slay the grandson of the conspiracy ringleader, [[UngratefulBastard even after]] [[TheAtoner he willingly returned the stolen gold to them]].
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* UngratefulBastard: Father Malone, seeking to atone for his grandfather's crimes (despite having no hand in them), gives the gold to Blake's zombie in exchange for sparing the townsfolk's lives. Blake retreats...then comes back and kills him anyway to satisfy the kill count.
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* OhCrap: Most of the second half of the movie is full of moments like this such as [[spoiler: Andy being trapped by the ghosts in his home after they kill Ms. Kobritz]] and later [[spoiler: Stevie being trapped by the revenants in the lighthouse]].
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* OminousKnocking:
** When the fog and the zombies reach the weather station, one of them knocks on the door. Dan the weatherman opens the door and looks out, allowing a zombie to enter and kill him.
** While Mrs. Kobritz and Andy are trapped in a house by the fog (and the zombies ''in'' the fog), one of the zombies pounds on the front door for admittance. Mrs. Kobritz foolishly opens the front door to see who's there and is killed by the zombie.
** When the fog and the zombies reach the weather station, one of them knocks on the door. Dan the weatherman opens the door and looks out, allowing a zombie to enter and kill him.
** While Mrs. Kobritz and Andy are trapped in a house by the fog (and the zombies ''in'' the fog), one of the zombies pounds on the front door for admittance. Mrs. Kobritz foolishly opens the front door to see who's there and is killed by the zombie.
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* IronLady: Kathy Williams, even though she's just the chairwoman of the town committee. When she hears her husband may have been lost at sea, she still continues with her work in the celebration.
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* IronLady: Kathy Williams, even though she's just the chairwoman of the town committee. When she hears her husband may have been lost at sea, she still continues with her work in the celebration. TruthInTelevision, many people react to such situations by going about their daily routines or even burying themselves in work - it both helps give you something else to think about/focus on, and gives you the feeling that it is an ordinary, routine day.
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* ItsQuietTooQuiet: When the title weather phenomena (and the zombies inside of it) are approaching the home where Mrs. Kobritz and Andy are staying, the frogs suddenly stop croaking and the crickets stop chirping, resulting in complete silence.
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* ItsQuietTooQuiet: When the title weather phenomena (and the zombies inside of it) are approaching the home where Mrs. Kobritz and Andy are staying, the frogs suddenly stop croaking and the crickets stop chirping, croaking, resulting in complete silence.
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* ItsQuietTooQuiet: When the title weather phenomena (and the zombies inside of it) are approaching the home where Mrs. Kobritz and Andy are staying, the frogs suddenly stop croaking and the crickets stop chirping, resulting in complete silence.
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* ActorAllusion: Jamie Lee Curtis is the one who protects Andy from the horrors, you might say [[{{Film/Halloween1978}} taking on the role of a babysitter]].
* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: The lack of blood in the film was to try and secure a PG rating. They still ended up with an R (as PG-13 had not been invented yet).
* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: The lack of blood in the film was to try and secure a PG rating. They still ended up with an R (as PG-13 had not been invented yet).
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* CastingGag: Mother and daughter Creator/JanetLeigh and Creator/JamieLeeCurtis. Also ''Halloween'' co-stars Nancy Loomis and Charles Cyphers in addition to Curtis. All three interacted a lot in ''Halloween'' but are almost completely separate in this.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Stevie's radio station plays jazz music, because it was more affordable than rock music on such a low budget.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: A few characters are named after John Carpenter's colleagues. The weatherman is named Dan O'Bannon (screenwriter for ''Film/{{Alien}}''), a sailor is called Tommy Wallace (the ''Halloween'' cinematographer) and Tom Atkin's character is Nick Castle (the actor who played Michael Myers). John Carpenter also cameos as a man called Bennett, possibly named after his writer friend Bennett Tramer (who also got this trope in ''Halloween'').
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* KillTheLights:
** During the attack on the weather station, the ghost fog (or the zombies) cut the building's power supply, causing the man inside to open the door and get killed.
** Later on the ghost fog enters the town's main generator and shorts it out, cutting off power to the entire area.
** During the attack on the weather station, the ghost fog (or the zombies) cut the building's power supply, causing the man inside to open the door and get killed.
** Later on the ghost fog enters the town's main generator and shorts it out, cutting off power to the entire area.
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''The Fog'' is a 1980 horror film by Creator/JohnCarpenter (his first feature after [[Film/Halloween1978 a certain other horror film]]), starring Adrienne Barbeau, Creator/AdrienneBarbeau, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis (and her mother, Creator/JanetLeigh), Creator/HalHolbrook, Nancy Loomis, John Houseman and others.
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[[TheRemake Remade in 2005]] with Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Creator/SelmaBlair. The remake tries to create more connections between the characters and also tries to expand on a few plot points from the original.
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[[TheRemake Remade in 2005]] with Tom Welling, Maggie Grace Creator/TomWelling, Creator/MaggieGrace and Creator/SelmaBlair. The remake tries to create more connections between the characters and also tries to expand on a few plot points from the original.
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* ArtisticLicenceEngineering: Stevie's generator is clearly a gas-powered one - so it should be outside the lighthouse instead of inside.
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* ArtisticLicence: Stevie's generator is clearly a gas-powered one - so it should be outside the lighthouse instead of inside.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Nick and Elizabeth, if the actors' actual ages are anything to go by (45 and 22 respectively).
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Williams, played by Maggie Grace, is revealed to be the reincarnation of the woman Blake loved when he was alive, and she becomes her ancestor at the end and disappears into the fog with Blake while her lover Nick, played by Tom Welling, can only watch in horror. He lives on with all the other survivors, but the woman ''he'' loved is gone.]]
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the 1980 film Nick is played by Tom Atkins. In the remake he's portrayed by the very handsome Tom Welling.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Williams, played by Maggie Grace, is revealed to be the reincarnation of the woman Blake loved when he was alive, and she becomes her ancestor at the end and disappears into the fog with Blake while her loverNick, played by Tom Welling, Nick can only watch in horror. He lives on with all the other survivors, but the woman ''he'' loved is gone.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Williams, played by Maggie Grace, is revealed to be the reincarnation of the woman Blake loved when he was alive, and she becomes her ancestor at the end and disappears into the fog with Blake while her lover
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* DroneOfDread: Used frequently in the score to marvelous and eerie effect.
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''The Fog'' is a 1980 horror film by Creator/JohnCarpenter (his first feature after [[Film/Halloween1978 a certain other horror film]]), starring Adrienne Barbeau, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis (and her mother, Creator/JanetLeigh), Hal Holbrook, Creator/HalHolbrook, Nancy Loomis, John Houseman and others.
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** Stevie's message to "look for the fog" through the radio is a reference to a scene in ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' where the main character grabs the radio and tells the world to "watch the skies" for extra-terrestrials.
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** A place called Bodega Bay is mentioned, which was the name of the setting of Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/TheBirds''.
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** A place called The town of Bodega Bay is mentioned, which was the name of Bay, famous as the setting of Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/TheBirds''.''Film/TheBirds'', is mentioned.
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* HauntedTechnology: The ghosts' presence is first experienced when various technology goes haywire.
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* HauntedTechnology: HauntedTechnology / ElectromagneticGhosts: The ghosts' presence is first experienced when various technology goes haywire.
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* MustBeInvited: If the fog can't come inside, the ghosts can't either unless you let them. [[spoiler:Of course, at the climax, the ghosts start getting impatient, as they just plain ''smash'' their way into the church and the lighthouse]]
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* MustBeInvited: If the fog can't come inside, the ghosts can't either unless you let them. [[spoiler:Of course, at the climax, the ghosts start getting impatient, as they just plain ''smash'' their way into the church and the lighthouse]]lighthouse]].
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Kathy runs through her list of things to do to get ready for the festival - and the last thing is to go home and pass out.
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* ChekhovsGun:
** Stevie's radio station becomes the only thing that can warn people about the dangers of the fog.
** When reading the journal, Father Malone says he couldn't read past the night where the six conspirators murdered Blake's crew. [[spoiler: Had he read on, he'd discover that the gold the ghosts are after is hidden in the church walls]].
** Stevie's radio station becomes the only thing that can warn people about the dangers of the fog.
** When reading the journal, Father Malone says he couldn't read past the night where the six conspirators murdered Blake's crew. [[spoiler: Had he read on, he'd discover that the gold the ghosts are after is hidden in the church walls]].
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* DrowningMySorrows: Father Malone is found drinking in his study on the evening of the festival.
* EverytownAmerica: Despite being a seaside town, what we see of Antonio Bay fits the trope. The festival even looks a bit like a 4th July celebration.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForASimpleTuesday: The ghosts strike on the town's 100th anniversary celebration.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForASimpleTuesday: HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The ghosts strike on the town's 100th anniversary celebration.
