THE FOG 1980 CAST MOVIE
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High up in her lighthouse radio station, DJ Stevie Wayne (Barbeau) reports on a strange fog heading toward the trawler Sea Grass. In another part of town, Nick Castle (Atkins) picks up hitchhiker Elizabeth (Curtis). Malone learns his kin had helped other townsfolk purposefully sink the Elizabeth Dane for the gold that she carried, and also to keep the leper Captain Blake from landing and spreading his disease. The centennial anniversary party taking place that very night was actually a celebration for murderers.

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Around this time, Father Malone (Holbrook) finds a hidden journal in a crack in his church wall and reads it, discovering it be a hundred year old missive from his own grandfather. As the church bells in town toll midnight, strange things happen all over town, as if a surge of energy has sent both animals and electronics haywire. This shipwreck caused a rush of help from neighboring places, and the ones that decided to stay started their beloved town.

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The movie starts with an old man (Houseman) telling a midnight seaside campfire story about the boat the Elizabeth Dane and how, one hundred years before, she had crashed against the rocks on the shore of their town of Antonio Bay, California. The fog creeps in on little cat feet… Still from The Fog Two things were said to have inspired Carpenter to make this film: the first was the 1957 film The Creeping Eye/The Trollenberg Terror and a trip with then girlfriend Debra Hill to Stonehenge. A&A Special Effects ( Dreamscapes 1984, Flowers in the Attic 1987) took care of the zombie makeup during the month long filming, which took place all along the California coast. Carpenter himself has an uncredited part in The Fog as Bennett, Father Malone’s assistant. Lovecraft, and Russellville Road and Smallhouse Road are both prominent street names in the director’s hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Famous for his subtle in-jokes, Carpenter used cast, crew, and location names from his past in his scripts, including the character name Nick Castle (actor who played The Shape in Halloween), Arkham Reef and Waitley Pointe are references to writer H.P. Coincidentally, actors Tom Atkins, Hal Holbrook, and Adrienne Barbeau all later acted in George Romero’s Creepshow (1982).

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Jamie Lee Curtis’ famous mother, Janet Leigh ( Psycho 1960, Halloween H20 1998), Hal Holbrook ( Wall Street 1987, Evening Shade television series 1990-1994) and John Houseman ( The Paper Chase television series 1978-1986, Ghost Story 1981) also starred in Carpenter’s creeping classic. Carpenter used many of the cast and crew from other projects, including actors Jamie Leigh Curtis ( Halloween 1978, Prom Night 1980), Tom Atkins ( Escape from New York 1981, Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982), wife at the time Adrienne Barbeau ( Someone’s Watching Me! 1978, Carnivale television series 2003-2005), and cowriter and producer Debra Hill, who also worked with ex-boyfriend Carpenter on Escape from New York (1981) and Escape from L.A.

This week in Horror movie history, back on February 8th in 1980, The Fog was first released in the US. John Carpenter was in charge of the screenplay, music, and direction, just as he had been for his 1978 sleeper hit, Halloween.

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