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The Fog

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Most film novelizations are simply the script put into narrative form and offer little of interest outside of a few scenes either cut from the movie or presented in a slightly different context. Dennis Etchison avoided that trap and created a fully realized adaptation of John Carpenter's The Fog. While the trouble plagued movie had its weak points, it is quite obvious Etchison worked hard to fix them, developing much needed back story and expansion of Carpenter's concepts and multiple plots. The result is a wonderful companion piece to the film that enriches the viewing experience after reading, much like Orson Scott Card's work on The Abyss. Recommended for both Carpenter fans and ghost story addicts.

Not a bad little book. Short, moves pretty fast with some well written tension. Is it better than the movie? No. It is more or less what you see in the movie with the exception of the dead guy walking in the hospital, which is not in the book, the back story of Stevie Wayne, which is in the book and thats about it. The character Nick is awesome in the book, well written, strong, a real mans man if you know what I mean. I find the movie better because I think the actors make it great. The setting, music score, the ghost pirates, and of course the Fog and it is just a pretty well put togeter film. The book by its self is a decent ghost story. It will not scare you I don't believe and there is no real literary significance to the story. Perhaps it would have been better if I had never seen the movie. But I really did like the Nick character, just down right balls to the wall man of action that seemed to be so believeable. So thats my take on the book anyways.

The Fog-1980 , is one of my favorite horror movies , along with both the original Halloween and it's sequel . I feel the book itself , didn't quite keep my attention as much as many events that often occurred in the movie will not be presented in the book . I thought the character Nick was an interesting character , as well as Father Malone . I say if your a die hard fan of the movie , then pick up this novel .

I had to fight to get through this book. I saw it at the used bookstore and just had to pick it up. A novel of the movie The Fog? Why not. But it was boring as can be. It didn't spend so much time on the fog being in the town and all these ghost crew members causing all this mayhem. It instead concentrated on what was going to happen. The fogs comin...uh oh you better watch out....theres a weird glowing fog coming this way....its going against the wind....its still comin...you better be ready. And this went on and on and on. The climax was way to short because of it. Short book, I thought it would concentrate more on the good parts but no, we get backstory on the chick played by Adrian Barbeau and her kid for most of the book. If your interested in The Fog, just go watch The Movie (and not the god awful remake either)