The Green Fog

The Green Fog

Let mystery have its place in you

Directed by Evan Johnson, Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson

Produced by Extra Large Productions

201862 min6.1 / 10

A visually poetic essay film that meditates on cinema itself through fragmented images of San Francisco, haunted by the ghost of Hitchcock's masterpiece.

A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…

Questions people ask

  • Is The Green Fog sad? Yes. More sad than 82% of films.

  • Is The Green Fog violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Is The Green Fog scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 61% of films.

  • Is The Green Fog easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Does The Green Fog end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

35/ 100

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Love25

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