I feel like I'm almost doing John Carpenter a disservice, being so analytical of his 1980 classic The Fog as I am, but hey: any artist has to expect the critics to come along and make their observations.
As I have.
Read on and debate away! (http://thegreatwhitedope.blogspot.com/2009/01/fog-1979.html)
I agree... The Fog was missing something. For me, it just wasn't very scary. That's a shame too because it was very well made, and had some nice music. I think of it as an entertaining ghost story rather than a thrilling scare-fest.