The fog 1980 movie#
They broke up in 1978, when Carpenter met Adrienne Barbeau while making the TV movie Someone's Watching Me! Carpenter and Hill continued to work together for the rest of her life (she died in 2005), but making The Fog couldn't have been easy for any of them, as it starred Barbeau, to whom Carpenter was newly married. John Carpenter worked on The Fog with both his wife and his ex-girlfriend.Ĭarpenter and Hill met in 1975, when she worked as the script supervisor on Assault on Precinct 13, and they began dating shortly thereafter. Houseman was not among the creepy British things that inspired the movie.) 4. They added some scenes, re-shot others, and introduced the character of the old man (John Houseman) who tells the campfire story at the beginning of the movie. Casting John Houseman in The Fog was an afterthought.Ībout one-third of the film consists of footage shot after Carpenter and Hill watched a rough cut and determined the movie wasn't working. Maybe he was thinking of Cronenberg's The Brood (1979)? 3.
but Scanners came out a year after The Fog. Carpenter says in the DVD commentary that it was David Cronenberg's Scanners that specifically inspired this. But gore was becoming popular with horror audiences, and since Carpenter was doing reshoots anyway, the studio urged him to add some bloodletting. The film originally didn't have much blood in it Carpenter, having gone that route with Halloween, wanted to take a different tack this time. You can thank David Cronenberg for The Fog's gore. as The Crawling Eye) in which creatures hide in the mist. Carpenter was also inspired by The Trollenberg Terror, a 1958 British film (released in the U.S. In 1977, when Carpenter and his co-writer/producer/girlfriend Debra Hill were in England promoting Assault on Precinct 13, they visited the ancient ring of stones and were struck by the eerie, foggy, mysterious atmosphere.
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