The movie is about the past (100-year-old ghosts) literally rolling in to haunt the present . Similarly, the filename is a high-tech shell containing a grainy, celluloid past.
There is a strange poetry in how we consume 20th-century nightmares through 21st-century file naming conventions. subtitle The.Fog.1980.C.E.Bluray.1080p.DTS-HD.x...
The resolution that allows you to see the individual droplets of the "glowing" fog—an effect Carpenter achieved using simple CO2 and fans. The movie is about the past (100-year-old ghosts)