- For the 2005 film, see The Fog (2005 film). The Fog is a 2005 Horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright. It is a Remake of John Carpenter 's film For the unrelated James Herbert novel, see The Fog (1975 novel). This article is about the English horror writer for the American music video director see James Herbert (director. The Fog is Best-selling novelist and writer James Herbert 's 1975 Horror story about a deadly fog that drives its victims insane when they
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| Directed by | John Carpenter |
| Produced by | Charles B. John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American Film director, Screenwriter, producer, film score Bloch Debra Hill Barry Bernardi Pegi Brotman |
| Written by | John Carpenter Debra Hill |
| Starring | Adrienne Barbeau Jamie Lee Curtis John Houseman Janet Leigh Hal Holbrook |
| Music by | John Carpenter |
| Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
| Editing by | Charles Bornstein Tommy Lee Wallace |
| Distributed by | AVCO Embassy Pictures International and TV Rights Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 1, 1980 |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,000,000 (estimate) |
| Gross revenue | $21,378,000 (domestic sub-total) |
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The Fog is a 1980 horror movie directed by John Carpenter, who also wrote the screenplay and composed the music of the film. Debra Hill ( November 10, 1950 &ndash March 7, 2005) was an American Screenwriter and Film producer who Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11 1945 is an American Television, Film, character and Musical theater actress as well as the Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22 1958 is a two-time Golden Globe -winning BAFTA -winning and Emmy -nominated American Film John Houseman ( September 22, 1902 — October 31, 1988) was an Oscar -winning American Actor Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress. Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook Jr (born February 17, 1925) is an American Actor. Dean Raymond Cundey, ASC (born 12 March 1946) is an American Cinematographer. Tommy Lee Wallace (born September 6, 1949) is an American Film producer, director and Screenwriter. Embassy Pictures Corporation (previously known as Avco Embassy Pictures and later Embassy Film Associates) was an independent studio and distributor responsible for }} Columbia Pictures Industries Inc is an American Film production and distribution company Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American Film director, Screenwriter, producer, film score It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins and Janet Leigh. Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11 1945 is an American Television, Film, character and Musical theater actress as well as the Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22 1958 is a two-time Golden Globe -winning BAFTA -winning and Emmy -nominated American Film Tom Atkins (born November 13, 1935) is an American television and film Actor. Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress. It was distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures. Embassy Pictures Corporation (previously known as Avco Embassy Pictures and later Embassy Film Associates) was an independent studio and distributor responsible for The movie is a ghost story involving mysterious events, including gruesome murders, which accompany a strange, glowing fog that spreads over land and sea.
Writer and director, John Carpenter, was not happy with the first cut of the film and subsequently added several new scenes and re-shot others. Approximately one-third of the finished film is comprised of re-shoot footage. The film received mixed reviews when it was released, but was a commercial success. A remake was released in 2005, based on the original's concept. The Fog is a 2005 Horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright. It is a Remake of John Carpenter 's film
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Plot
Set in a Northern California fishing town called Antonio Bay (real location Inverness, California, Point Reyes lighthouse, and the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Sierra Madre, California). Northern California is the northern portion of the US state of California. Inverness is an unincorporated community and Census-designated place (CDP located in western Marin County California. The Point Reyes Lighthouse, also known as Point Reyes Light or the Point Reyes Light Station, is a Lighthouse in the Gulf of the Farallones Sierra Madre is a town in Los Angeles County California. The population was about 10580 at the time of the 2000 census The town is about to celebrate its centennial when mysterious events, including the gruesome murders of three local fishermen, accompany a strange, glowing fog that spreads over land and sea. A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred is One hundred consecutive Years Centuries are numbered ordinally (e The local priest, Father Malone, discovers the diary of his grandfather (who was also the town's priest), which contains a dark secret unknown to the town's current inhabitants.
The diary reveals that, in 1880, six of the founders of Antonio Bay (including Malone's grandfather) deliberately sunk and plundered the Elizabeth Dane, a clipper ship owned by Blake, a wealthy man with leprosy who wanted to establish a colony near Antonio Bay. A clipper was a very fast Sailing ship of the 19th century that had multiple masts and a Square rig. Leprosy (from the Greek lepi (λέπι meaning scales on a fish or Hansen's disease, is a chronic disease caused by the bacterium The six conspirators lit a fire on the beach near treacherous rocks, and the crew of the clipper, deceived by the false beacon, crashed into the rocks. Everyone aboard the ship perished. The six conspirators were motivated both by greed and disgust at the notion of having a leper colony nearby. A leper colony, leprosarium, or lazar house is a place to Quarantine leprous people Antonio Bay and its church were then founded with the gold plundered from the ship.
The mysterious fog contains the vengeful ghosts of Blake and the clipper's crew, who have come back on the hundredth anniversary of the shipwreck and the founding of the town to take the lives of six people (symbolic substitutes for the six conspirators).
Production
The Fog was part of a two-picture deal with AVCO-Embassy, along with Escape From New York (1981), and was shot on a reported budget of $1 million. Escape from New York is a 1981 science fiction / Action film directed and scored by John Carpenter. ". [1] Although this was essentially a low budget independent film, Carpenter chose to shoot the movie in the anamorphic format. Anamorphic format is a term that can be used either for the Cinematography technique of capturing a Widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film, or other This gave the film a grander feel for the viewer so it did not seem like a low budget horror film. The picture was filmed from April 1979 to May 1979 at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California (interior scenes) and at Point Reyes, California (lighthouse scenes). Point Reyes is a prominent cape on the Pacific coast of northern California.
After viewing a rough cut of the film, John Carpenter was dissatisfied with the results. Recalling the experience, Carpenter commented "it was terrible. I had a movie that didn't work, and I knew it in my heart". [2] Carpenter subsequently added the prologue with Mr. Machen (John Houseman) telling ghost stories to fascinated children by a campfire. John Houseman ( September 22, 1902 — October 31, 1988) was an Oscar -winning American Actor The name "Machen" is a reference to British horror fantasist Arthur Machen. Arthur Machen (ˈmækən ( March 3, 1863 &ndash December 15, 1947) was a leading Welsh Author of the 1890s Carpenter added several other new scenes and re-shot others in order to make the film more comprehensible, more frightening, and gorier. Carpenter and Debra Hill have said the necessity of a re-shoot became especially clear to them after they realized that The Fog would have to compete with horror films that had high gore content. [3]
Approximately one-third of the finished film is the newer footage. This includes the introductory "storytelling" scene, the morgue scene, Stevie Wayne's battle with the ghosts on top of the lighthouse, and graphic inserts into the death scenes.
Casting
Cast as the female lead was Adrienne Barbeau, Carpenter's then-wife, who appeared in Someone's Watching Me. Someone's Watching Me! (also known as High Rise) is an early Made-for-tv movie, written and directed by John Carpenter and starring Tom Atkins, a friend of Barbeau's, was cast as Nick Castle, a character named after another of Carpenter's collaborators. The Fog was Atkins' first appearance in a Carpenter film. He would go on to appear in Carpenter's next film, Escape From New York and Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which was produced and scored by Carpenter. Escape from New York is a 1981 science fiction / Action film directed and scored by John Carpenter. Halloween III Season of the Witch is a 1982 Horror film and the third installment in the ''Halloween'' series.
Jamie Lee Curtis appeared as Elizabeth. Commenting on the role and on appearing in another of Carpenter's films, she said "That's what I love about John. He's letting me explore different aspects of myself. I'm spoiled rotten now. My next director is going to be almost a letdown". [4]
Inspiration
John Carpenter has admitted that some of the inspiration for the story was drawn from the British film The Trollenberg Terror (1958), which dealt with monsters hiding in the clouds. The Trollenberg Terror is the title of both a 1956 "Saturday Serial" ITV television program and a better-known 1958 Black and white He has also said that he was inspired by a visit to Stonehenge with his co-writer/producer (and then-girlfriend), Debra Hill. Stonehenge is a Prehistoric Monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury While in England promoting Assault on Precinct 13, Carpenter and Hill visited the site in the late afternoon one day and saw an eerie fog in the distance. Assault on Precinct 13 is a 1976 American action / thriller movie inspired by the Howard Hawks Film Rio Bravo In the DVD audio commentary for the film, Carpenter noted that the story of the deliberate wreckage of a ship and its subsequent plundering was based on an actual event that took place in the 19th century near Goleta, California. [5]
Analysis
Much like Halloween (1978), the film contains many intertextual references. Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a Holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Some of the places mentioned early in the film, including "Whately" (the main character of "The Dunwich Horror") and "Arkham" are references to the works of H. P. Lovecraft, while Bodega Bay, the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, is briefly mentioned in one scene. " The Dunwich Horror" is a Short story by H P Lovecraft. Arkham is a Fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy "Dr. Phibes", the name of the character played by Darwin Joston, is a reference to the character Dr. F Darwin Solomon ( December 9, 1937 - June 1, 1998) was an American Actor known professionally as Darwin Joston Anton Phibes played by Vincent Price in two cult horror favorites (The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again). Vincent Leonard Price Jr ( May 27 1911 &ndash October 25 1993) was an American Film Actor, remembered The Abominable Dr Phibes is a Horror film starring Vincent Price. Dr Phibes Rises Again ( 1972) was the second Dr Phibes movie a sequel to The Abominable Dr
Reception
The film was greeted with mixed reviews when it was initially released, but it was a commercial success. Roger Ebert commented in his review that "This isn't a great movie but it does show great promise from Carpenter". [6] It is now generally considered to be, as Carpenter once called it, "a minor horror classic". Carpenter himself stated that this is not his overall favorite film due to re-shoots and low production values. This is one of the reasons he agreed to the 2005 remake (see below).
Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Adrienne Barbeau | Stevie Wayne |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | Elizabeth Solley |
| Janet Leigh | Kathy Williams |
| John Houseman | Mr. Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11 1945 is an American Television, Film, character and Musical theater actress as well as the Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22 1958 is a two-time Golden Globe -winning BAFTA -winning and Emmy -nominated American Film Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress. John Houseman ( September 22, 1902 — October 31, 1988) was an Oscar -winning American Actor Machen |
| Tom Atkins | Nick Castle |
| James Canning | Dick Baxter |
| Charles Cyphers | Dan O'Bannon |
| Nancy Loomis | Sandy Fadel |
| Ty Mitchell | Andy Wayne |
| Hal Holbrook | Father Malone |
| John F. Tom Atkins (born November 13, 1935) is an American television and film Actor. Charles Cyphers (born July 28 1939) is an American Actor who has starred in many Films and on Television. Nancy Louise Kyes (born December 19, 1949) is an American film and television actress Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook Jr (born February 17, 1925) is an American Actor. Goff | Al Williams |
| George 'Buck' Flower | Tommy Wallace |
| Darwin Joston | Dr. George Buck Flower ( October 28, 1937 &ndash June 18, 2004) was an American actor writer producer assistant director production F Darwin Solomon ( December 9, 1937 - June 1, 1998) was an American Actor known professionally as Darwin Joston Phibes |
Remake
The film was remade under the direction of Rupert Wainwright with a screenplay by Cooper Layne and starring Tom Welling and Maggie Grace. The Fog is a 2005 Horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright. It is a Remake of John Carpenter 's film The Fog is a 2005 Horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright. It is a Remake of John Carpenter 's film Rupert Wainwright (born November 30, 1963) is an English film and Television director, Writer, and Actor. Thomas John Patrick Welling (born April 26 1977) is an American Actor, director and former male fashion model, most famous for Margaret Grace Denig (born September 21, 1983) better known as Maggie Grace, is an American actress. Though based on the concept of Carpenter and Hill's original screenplay, the remake was a "teen horror film. " Green-lit by Revolution Studios with just eighteen pages of script written, the film was nearly universally panned for the shallow plot and poor acting. Revolution Studios was a Film production company founded in 2000 by Joe Roth, a former chairman of Walt Disney Studios and Twentieth Century As of January 2006, the film has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 5%. Rotten Tomatoes is a Website devoted to reviews information and news of Movies.
References
- ^ Boulenger, pp. 115
- ^ Boulenger, pp. 118
- ^ Audio commentary by John Carpenter and Debra Hill in The Fog, 2002 special edition DVD.
- ^ Paul Scanlon, 'THE FOG': A SPOOK RIDE ON FILM[1]; last accessed November 17, 2007
- ^ Gilles Boulenger, John Carpenter Prince of Darkness, (Los Angeles, Silman-James Press, 2003), pp. Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. 116, ISBN 1-879505-67-3
- ^ Roger Ebert, review of The Fog[2]; last accessed November 17, 2007
External links
- Surfindead.com review of The Fog
- Filming locations used for The Fog
- The Fog at John carpenter's website
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