Reply #14: The Fog has to be the most suspenseful movie ever made

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I watched it on TV, which meant it had commercials, and I've never watched a movie in which I was actually glad for commercial breaks except for The Fog. Every commercial was a chance to breath again. It's not a scary movie, IMO, but VERY suspenseful, and Carpenter is such a genius that he how to set up the audience by bringing in the typical "something is gonna happen" music, and then not have something happen.

But, I had to vote for The Thing, because it's one of my top ten best films ever. Brilliant film-making and incredible script and acting. All around an excellently made film, very suspenseful, the shape-shifting scenes are PHENOMENAL and gross and extraordinary but never gratuitous or overdone, and I love the nihilistic attitude of the entire movie.

I remember some of the reviews of that movie, dissing it, and saying that the nihilism and lack of hope got in the way of the story. i can only shake my head at those reviewers and say "You just didn't get it. That's what the story WAS - the nihilism and loss of hope and ambiguity of the ending IS THE STORY. Idiots."

I love the movie!