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The Fog was John Carpenter's fourth feature film (sixth, if you count Someone’s Watching Me and Elvis, two made-for television movies) and was meant to be a homage of sorts to H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James and other writers of great ghost tales and the supernatural.  Janet Leigh's Ford Country Squire station wagon is the same one that John Carpenter used in "Escape from New York". -Thanks to JosephNancy Kyes _IS_ "Nancy Loomis", of Halloween fame. She went by both names in her career and was married at the time to the special effects coordinator for "Halloween". -Thanks to RyanRegular collaborators in the casting department were used in this film. Jamie Lee and Tom Atkins, who's name in the film is Nick Castle, the man who played "the Shape" in Halloween. Also, Charles Cyphers, the cop in the same film, so too in Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape from New York. Sadly, no Donald Pleasance but Hal Holbrook does a great job in this character role. Charles Cypher's character is called "Dan O'Bannon", the name of his Film School friend and collaborator in "Dark Star" O'Bannon had also provided computer graphics for Star Wars and also was one of the writers of the Ridley Scott smash 1979 hit ALIEN. -Thanks to TomIn the movie, there is a character on the boat at the beginning named Dick Baxter. In John Carpenter's "Halloween" 1978, Annie (Nancy Loomis who also plays Sandy in The Fog) teases Laurie about going out with a guy named Dick Baxter when Annie and Laurie are in the car on the way to babysit. As you probably know, both movies are John Carpenter's. -Thanks to MelissaThe Bodega Bay location where most scenes were filmed was used in another John Carpenter movie "Village of the Damned". He loved it so much he bought a house there. -Thanks to Rogério BarbosaThe film editor for "The Fog" is Tommy Lee Wallace, which is the exact name of the boy Laurie babysits for in Carpenter's original "Halloween." -Thanks to Luis &Amp; CeciliaRob Bottin played the lead ghost character 'Blake', Rob was also the make-up artist for the movie. One great cameo appearance was John Houseman. America's "favorite old f*rt reading a book!" is the line from 1988's Scrooged with Bill Murray in which he makes another cameo appearance. Houseman played the quintessential old sea captain at the beginning of the movie telling the kids ghost stories on the beach at night. Other movies he appeared in the 80's were "My Bodygard" 1980 and "Ghost Story" (1981) (Adapted from the Peter Straub horror novel). -Thanks to Jim PawlowskiJamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of actress Janet Leigh, who used to be married to actor Tony Curtis, hence the name Jamie Lee Curtis. -Thanks to nutz'n'boltz'Bennett', who was working in the church for Father Malone was in fact played by director John Carpenter himself. -Thanks to Allen Forster« Click here to add some Fog trivia  Find much more great trivia in the filmmaker's commentary on the Fog DVD.Rediscover your favorites! If you like The Fog or 80's Horror classics, then be sure to check out this list: ..... Lost Boys ..... Near Dark ..... Fright Night ..... Hellraiser ..... Shining ..... Poltergeist ..... Scanners ..... American Werewolf In London ..... Night of the Creeps ..... Nightmare on Elm Street ..... Paperhouse ..... One Dark Night ..... Re-Animator ..... Prom Night ..... Mausoleum ..... Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama .....[More] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Featured Movie Location: The LighthouseWanna see the real life filming location used for The Lighthouse in the movie? These scenes were actually shot at A Lighthouse, located in Point Reyes Station, N. California. [New! Show Google Map] There are 308 steps down to the lighthouse. [Thanks to Tom Barber] The movie was filmed on location in the towns of Inverness, Point Reyes Station, Bodega Bay and Tomales Bay, tiny coastal towns in Marin County, about 40 miles north of San Francisco. The old Tides dock and restaurant on Bodega Bay were used for scenes where the fishing boats docked. The gas station and the church sign are located in Downtown Inverness, California. The actual church itself is located in Altadena, California. [Thanks to Greg Martin]
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John carpenter seems to put high emphasis on the relation between images and sound, all his films are testaments to the use of soundtrack to enhance mood and atmosphere, here he uses synth to lend an air of impending doom for the Bay's locale. Particularly when the young boy glimpses a gold coin on rocks on the beach only to see it change into driftwood bearing the ghost ships name. Also the pounding almost progressive rock that sounds off as the onslaught begins on the church. Title track to Housemans deadpan voice is immense also, the old man tells the story of the legend of the Fog to a mesmerising atmosphere created by the use of keyboard. As noted above, Carpenter completely re-created the soundtrack score after he noted that his first effort was "heavy-handed and obvious". The soundtrack score was released by Silva America. A track listing follows: 1. Prologue - John Carpenter/John Houseman 2. Theme From 'The Fog' 3. Matthew Ghost Story 4. Walk To The Lighthouse 5. Rocks At Drake's Bay 6. The Fog 7. Antonio Bay 8. Tommy Tells Of Ghost Ships 9. Reel 9 10. Main Theme - Reprise 11. The Fog Rolls In 12. Blake In The Sanctuary 13. Finale 14. Radio Interview With Jamie Lee Curtis About The Fog - Jamie Lee Curtis « Click here to add new music trivia for Fog Soundtrack Available: On CD | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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