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The Fog (1980)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1979
Running Times: 89 mins
Format: Metrocolor 35mm
Panavision (anamorphic)
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: AVCO Embassy Pictures / EDI
Executive Producer: Charles B. Bloch
Producer: Debra Hill
Associate Producers: Barry Bernardi, Pegi Brotman
Production Manager: Don Behrns
SCRIPT
Script: John Carpenter,
Debra Hill
DIRECTION
Director: John Carpenter
1st Assistant Director: Larry J. Franco
2nd Assistant Director: James van Wyck
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Dean Cundey
Camera Operator / 2nd Unit Camerman: Raymond Stella
1st Assistant Cameraman: Steve St. John
2nd Assistant Cameraman: Krishna Rao
Gaffer: Mark Walthour
Best Boy: Dylan Shepherd
Electricians: Steve Fierberg, Scott Buttfield
Best Boy Electric: Steve Mathis
Key Grip: Ben Haller
Grips: Tim Doughten, Dave Michels
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Tommy Lee Wallace, Charles Bornstein
Assistant Editor: Joe Woo Jr
MUSIC
Music: John Carpenter
Electronic Realization / Orchestration: Dan Wyman
Music Performed By: The Bowling Green-Warren County Chamber Orchestra
Music Coordinator: Bob Walters
Music Mixer: Jim Cypherd
SOUND
Sound Designer: William Stevenson, Stevensound Inc
Sound Mixer: Craig Felburg
Boom Operator: Joe Brennan
Supervising Sound Editors: Gregg Barbanell, Ron Horwitz, Mag City Hollywood
Re-Recording Mixers: Ray West, Bob Minkler, Dick Tyler
Special Sound Effects: Mag City Hollywood, Frank Serafine
Post Production Sound: Samuel Goldwyn Studios
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Dante Palmiere, Ed Ternes, Erica Ulland
Hair: Tina Cassady
Costume Designers: Bill Whitten, Steven Loomis, Workroom 27
Wardrobe Master: Richard Bloore
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up: Rob Bottin
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Richard Albain Jr, A&A Special Efects
Blake Effects: Rob Bottin, Dean Cundey
VISUAL EFFECTS
Special Photographic Effects: James F. Liles
Title Designer: Burke Mattsson
Titles and Opticals: MGM
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Tommy Lee Wallace
Art Director: Craig Stearns
Assistant Art Directors: Charles R. Moore
Props: Kathleen Hughes
Sets: Get Set Inc
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Jeanne Rosenberg
Production Accountant: Don Borchers
Production Assistants: Steve McMillian, Mary Francis Flynn, Randy Zook,
Alexandra Hawler
Publicity: Maslansky-Koenigsberg
Unit Publicists: Katy Sweet, Ed Pine
LOCATIONS
Locations: Bodega Bay, California, USA; Inverness, California, USA;
Point Reyes Station, California, USA; Sierra Madre, California, USA
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Our thanks to the people of Pt. Reyes Station, California; Inverness,
California
STUNTS
Stunt Driver: James Winburn
CAST
Adrienne Barbeau (Stevie Wayne)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Elizabeth Solley)
Janet Leigh (Kathy Williams)
John Houseman (Mr Machen)
Tom Atkins (Nick Castle)
James Canning (Dick Baxter)
Charles Cyphers (Dan O'Bannon)
Nancy Loomis (real name: Nancy Kyes) (Sandy Fadel)
Ty Mitchell (Andy Wayne)
Hal Holbrook (Father Malone)
John Goff (Al Williams)
George 'Buck' Flower (Tommy Wallace)
Regina Waldon (Mrs Kobritz)
Jim Haynie (Hank Jones)
Darrow Igus (Mel Sloan)
John Vic (Sheriff Simms)
Jay Jacobs (Mayor)
Fred Franklyn (Ashcroft)
Ric Moreno, Lee Sacks, Tommy Wallace (ghosts)
Bill Taylor (bartender)
Rob Bottin (Blake)
Charles Nicklin (Blake's voice)
Darwin Joston (Dr Phibes)
Laurie Arent, Lindsey Arent, Shari Jacoby, Christopher Cundey (children)
John Strobel (grocery store clerk)
John Carpenter
(Bennett (uncredited))
Debra Hill (extra in benediction scene (uncredited))
PLOT SUMMARY
As the residents of small coastal town Antonio Bay prepare to celebrate
their centenary they find their past creeping up on them. The town had
been founded on gold plundered from a ship full of lepers that was deliberately
led onto the rocks one foggy night. Now the ghosts of the ship's crew
are back, using the fog to terrorise the town and exact their revenge.
CAPSULE REVIEW
An under-rated chiller that was panned at the time for not being the
same as Halloween (1978) but which has aged well and
now looks like a fine, creepy effort that is finally getting the respect
it deserves. It has problems - the post-production tampering to up the
violence quotient and re-jig the plot has left some gaping plot holes
and a few uncomfortable changes of mood - but the ghosts are suitably
eerie, performances are top notch and Carpenter's direction is taut
enough to remind us how incredibly good he was in his day.
AVAILABILITY
Brazil
Video Distributors: Globo Vídeo
Germany
DVD Distributors: Best Buy Movie GmbH / Kinowelt Home Entertainment
UK
Theatrical Distributors: Rank Film Distributors Ltd
Video Distributors: BMG Video
Laserdisc Distributors: Pioneer (PLFEB 37201); Twentieth Century Fox
(4067-70)
DVD Distributors: Momentum Pictures
USA
Theatrical Distributors: AVCO Embassy Pictures
Video Distributors: MGM Home Entertainment / RCA/Columbia Pictures Home
Video
Laserdisc Distributors: Nelson (20036); Image Entertainment (ID 2846
SU); RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
DVD Distributors: MGM Home Entertainment (1003671)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: M
Finland
Rating: K-16
France
Rating: -12
Norway
Rating: 16
Singapore
Rating: PG
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: R
West Germany
Rating: 16
AWARDS
1981
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA (Saturn Awards)
Best Horror Film - nominated
Best Special Effects (Richard Albain, Tommy Lee Wallace, James F. Liles)
- nominated
TIMELINE
1980
February
8: USA - theatrical release
March
19: France - theatrical release
May
9: Finland - theatrical release
June
12: Hong Kong - theatrical release
30: Sweden - theatrical release
July
25: Norway - theatrical release
August
28: West Germany - theatrical release
1995
October
18: USA - laserdisc release (Image Entertainment (ID 2846 SU))
1998
October
Day Unknown: UK - laserdisc release (Pioneer (PLFEB 37201))
1999
November
Day Unknown: Italy - shown at the Turin Film Festival
2000
March
25: Germany - DVD release (Best Buy Movie)
2002
August
27: USA - DVD release (MGM Home Entertainment (1003671))
POSTER TAGS
What you can't see won't hurt you... it'll kill you!
100 years ago it moved across a small town creating a terror no human
being should ever live to see again! Now it has returned.
What in the living hell is out there!
Lock your doors. Bolt your windows. There's something in THE FOG!
When the fog rolls in... the terror begins!
It is night. It is cold. It is coming.
JOHN CARPENTER, who startled the world with "Halloween,"
now brings you the ultimate experience in terror.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
A Bruma Assassina - Brazilian title
Dimman - Swedish title
Fog - French / Italian title
Mgla - Polish title
O Nevoeiro - Portugese title
La niebla - Spanish title
Tåken - Norwegian title
The Fog - Nebel des Grauens - West German title
Usva - Finnish title
LINKS
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Fear on Film: Inside The Fog (1980)
Tales From the Mist: Inside The Fog (2002)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
REMAKE
The Fog (2005)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Andere Sinema no.107 (January / February 1992) pp.22-26
(Belgium)
article (Now I'm nationwide by Frank Brisard)
Cahiers du Cinema no.536 (June 1999) p.8 (France)
illustrated article (by Jerome Larcher)
Il Castoro Cinema n182 Mar/Apr (1997): 40-44 (Italy)
article (by Fabrizio Liberti)
Cine-Fiches de Grand Angle no.125 (March 1990) pp.47-54
(France)
article (John Carpenter (2e partie) by Philippe Noel)
Film Score Monthly vol.5 no.8 (2000) pp.42-43 (USA)
illustrated soundtrack review (by Chris Stavrakis)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
children, churches, curses, decapitations, eye gougings, fog, ghosts,
ghost ships, impalements, lepers, lighthouses, maggots, revenge, the
sea, ships, spiral staircases, the supernatural, swords, treasure, water,
zombies
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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