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quick easy read. slightly different then the movie in a number of ways; which made for a fun surprise.
Read for an online book club, October 2013 book. This book totally sucked. I only gave it two stars because I was being nice!
When someone writes a novelization of a shitty movie, one begs to question why anyone would want to read it. I couldn't answer that question, because I don't know why I chose to read it. It was there for twenty cents, and so I thought "why not?". Well the book was pretty darned awful: nothing particularly interesting happened, and it felt like Dennis Etchison (whoever the hell he is?) was just told to write exactly what happens in the movie down onto paper. There is no sense of realism with thes...
This is a great novelisation that builds on the original screenplay and gives you genuine chills. It captures the atmosphere of the movie perfectly - recommended.
A slightly above average adaptation that keeps the basic story elements and characters while enhancing the whole in small ways. Still, Carpenter's classic zombie pirate B-movie is the better entertainment.
A good novelization of a weird little cult film that I enjoyed very much. (The original with Barbeau, Curtis, Houseman, Holbrook, and Janet Leigh; the remake wasn't as good.) Etchison was a master of horror literature, and understood how to translate it from screen to page, which is an obvious reversal of the usual process. His novelized version is a quick and entertaining read, with a shiver or three along the way.
Quick, easy, entertaining read.
This book was a series of novelizations of 80s horror films written by Dennis Etchison and one of the few that bears his name and not the pseudonym of Jack Martin. That is probably because this is one of his best novelizations. While some of his earlier novelizations, including the Halloween series, are clearly written to pay the rent, this one enhances the film and has some nice Etchison touches...A veil had descended over the whole coast...It wrapped itself around the sand dunes and braided th...
Starts out great. The pace is quick, and the events to come are served up nicely.Then it falls apart.Needless internal dialogues about insignificant situations and flat-out boring prose. Usually a book based on a movie will add additional information about what is seen on-screen. This book? Not so much.The end seems to appear out of nowhere; it's as if the author woke up from a nap and started typing again. While the descriptions are explicit and the action frenetic, it ends too quickly. An aver...
Eerie feeling to this read as the people of Antonio Bay find themselves stuck in the fog. I think if you liked Stephen Kings' The Mist, you should check this out.
A chilling adaptation of a classic horror movie. I think the imagery in the book will give me more nightmares than the movie did. Great read.
As tense as the movie.
John Carpenter's The Fog is one of my personal favorite ghost movies. It has a great cast, superb score, and such a humble approach to itself, it's just a really well told story, and when I found out it had a novelization, I wanted to check it out.The good point of this book is that it does capture that eerie feel from the movie. It can lag a bit but overall flows generally smoothly, and it also showcases character development on Nick, Stevie and her son Andy that we didn't get to see in the mov...
Awesome novelisation. Loads that is different and expanded on from the actual film. I prefer the film though.
A fairly average novelization of the classic John Carpenter film. Being a fan of THE FOG, though the film's narrative has some structural flaws (which Director John Carpenter admits), I was hoping Dennis Etchison's efforts would smooth over those bumpy cinematic elements and add some character development as well as some additional ghostly thrills. Unfortunately, much of Etchison's prose feels forced--and clunky--in many passages as he fills up many pages with superfluous "character building," l...
I am taking off points for the needlessly unpleasant attitude of Nick Castle, one of the the main characters. He beds the girl and then treats her with seething contempt throughout the rest of the book. It reads almost like the author got dumped by his girlfriend while adapting the screenplay and he added all the nasty inner dialogue to what is basically a likable character. I was very turned off by that aspect of this book.
Tonight the fog that rises off the California coast is different, unnatural, a writhing icy mist blanketing the small town, concealing it’s terrors. For tonight, one hundred years later, they have risen from the dead in vengeful fury, stalking down their victims in a night of unimaginable horror.With a back cover blurb that gives away pretty much everything, this is a workman-like adaption of John Carpenter & Debra Hill’s screenplay by the excellent Dennis Etchison (misspelled on the cover of my...
A very good novel interpretation of John Carpenter’s classic film. I liked reading the thoughts of some of the characters that we don’t get to see in the movie. Very suspenseful and action packed. Some moments went on longer than I prefer but maybe that’s just me. Definitely recommend.
