The Fog
JOHN CARPENTER: THE SHAPE OF DREAD, PART III
Following up HALLOWEEN was always going to be an uphill battle. Instead of repeating the slasher formula that made him a name overnight, John Carpenter and Debra Hill went the other direction: a maritime ghost story built on Victorian dread and old EC Comics morality, with a budget four times larger than anything he'd ever had to work with. THE FOG (1980) is Carpenter's biggest technical leap yet, with Dean Cundey's widescreen camerawork turning fog itself into a predator with a bone to pick. When the first assembly cut screened, it didn't work. Nothing about it landed. What followed was a scramble to save the film and secure Carpenter's legacy as the reigning king of horror.
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Credits
Directed by John Carpenter
Screenplay by John Carpenter | Debra Hill
Starring Adrienne Barbeau | Tom Atkins | Jamie Lee Curtis | John Houseman| Janet Leigh | Hal Holbrook
Music by John Carpenter
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Edited by Tommy Lee Wallace | Charles Bornstein
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Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
This episode was written, produced and edited by Gary Horne & Justin Bishop.
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