Fog City 4K 2023

Georgia is excited about her high school graduation. She has a very special reason for this: she is the daughter of the richest man in her hometown, but in her case, her affluent life is accompanied by the wary and ironic attitude of her classmates and, it seems, other locals who have been left out of the picture. Because of this, Georgia dreams of going to college and getting rid of the nickname “Poison Paige”. The fact is that her father owns a factory, shrouded in mystery, as it produces unknown things and unknown for what purpose, and looks very dark. So Georgia's fellow countrymen (judging by her classmates) are in a state of some sort of semi-suppressed anticipation of a local apocalypse.

Life, however, is not entirely bleak. Georgia has a best friend with whom she's planning to party with a few other friends at her friend's country house.

But when the company arrives at the place of pleasant pastime, something very similar to the long-awaited apocalypse occurs. At first, the most frustrating thing for our heroine is that she can't give an explanation for what is happening, which her friends pry from her as the heiress of a sinister factory. She doesn't know anything...

Throughout most of “Misty Town” gives the impression of a completely banal and passable horror movie with traditionally not too outstanding acting. Another movie about how in an incomprehensible and disturbing situation a friendly company discovers its gut, and in indecent behavior reaches the limits of lowliness.

Nothing fresh seems to be expected, and the ending seems quite predictable.

But in the end, “Fog City” leaves a much better impression. Everything that happens gets an unexpected explanation, which quite covers the mediocrity of the actors and the banality of the previous plot moves. The movie changes its genre: not a cheap and predictable horror movie, but a black comedy. That said, the final ending comes after the credits.

These surprises don't make the movie a masterpiece, but they refresh the hackneyed plot scheme quite a bit. The horror movie is reclassified as a black comedy with the strongest shade of absurdity in the last frames.

Additional charm of “Misty Town” is given by the following: the creators of the picture tried to use fantasy in the final scene, but still here they partially followed the beaten path, subjecting a couple of black characters to the treatment, traditional for state horror films.