The fog was very harshly criticized at the time for two reasons. the first was, precisely, how some survivors react to the promises of a vengeful God. Who would let themselves be carried away by something so childish today? In my opinion, the progression in the credulity of the people, although precipitated according to what cases, makes sense. At first, everyone puts on a poker face when the lady shouts her biblical mantras, but when death and impossible images begin to arrive, she may seem like the only hold they have on hand. In other words, it is very easy to call the characters panphiles, but you should be in such an extreme situation to see how a mob would behave, with a contagious panic in between.