Product Description
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When the fog rolls in... the terror begins This moody horror
classic from master of terror John Carpenter (The Thing) and
producer Debra Hill (Escape from New York) stars Adrienne Barbeau
(Swamp Thing), Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween), Tom Atkins
(Halloween III: Season of the Witch), Hal Holbrook (Creepshow)
and Janet Leigh (Psycho). Dont get lost in the fog...
The y seaside village of Antonio Bay is about to learn the
true meaning of the word vengeance. For this seemingly perfect
town s a guilty secret... a past steeped in greed and murder.
Exactly 100 years ago, a ship was horribly wrecked under
mysterious circumstances in a thick, eerie fog. Now, shrouded in
darkness, the long dead mariners have returned from their water
grave to exact a bloody revenge.
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Scream Factory continues its impressive track record of
presenting classic '70s and '80s horror titles in deluxe Blu-ray
packages with this release of John Carpenter's The Fog. The
extras here are a mix of features ported over from earlier home
video presentations (the 1995 laserdisc and the 2002 Special
Edition DVD from MGM) and new material produced specifically for
the Blu-ray disc. Chief among the latter is an engaging interview
with star Jamie Lee Curtis, who discusses her work on the film
and other horror titles like Terror Train (1980) and (of course)
Carpenter's Halloween. Curtis is remarkably frank about The Fog,
which she describes as "not her cup of tea," as well as the peaks
and valleys of her early career, and details her personal
relationship with Carpenter and especially the late producer
Debra Hill, as well as the impact that their post-Halloween
breakup had on her and the making of The Fog. An additional
wealth of production anecdotes can be found on a new commentary
track featuring stars Adrienne Barbeau and Tom Atkins with
production designer and frequent Carpenter collaborator Tommy Lee
Wallace, who offer warm and frequently funny observations on the
picture; it's a lighthearted counterpart to the no-nonsense
commentary by Carpenter and Hill (culled from the laserdisc),
which balances technical observations with a straightforward and
detailed account of the film's production troubles and their
struggles with the studio. Cinematographer Dean Cundey also
addresses the difficulties in working under a limited budget in
an 18-minute interview that also touches on his other projects
with Carpenter, including Halloween and The Thing. All three
filmmakers are also front and center on a 28-minute making-of
featurette, Tales from the Mist (taken from the MGM DVD), which
includes interviews with Barbeau and costar Janet Leigh, who are
also featured in the 1980 Universal promotional video Fear on
Film: Inside The Fog along with an animated Curtis. There's also
an episode of Sean Clark's humorous documentary series Horror's
Hallowed Grounds, which visits the film's Northern California
coastal locations, as well as a storyboard-to-film comparison of
the deadly encounter between the ghost crew of the Elizabeth Dane
and trawler fishermen John F. Goff and George "Buck" Flower. The
disc is rounded out by an array of theatrical trailers, TV spots,
an outtake reel, additional storyboards, and promotional photos,
as well as an easy-to-find Easter Egg that offers an intro (with
appropriately sinister voice-over by the great Ernie "Ghoulardi"
Anderson) for an early '80s TV broadcast of The Fog on the ABC
Sunday Night Movie. --Paul Gaita