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Show 66Tte Fg" sitt Molniay Yalta John Carpenter not only directed di-rected and co-authored the new thriller "The Fog" he also composed com-posed the original score for the ' movie! - Furthermore, he is a member of the "Coupe de Villes" a rock group heard whenever the radio is turned on in the film. A contemporary con-temporary tale of terror, Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis and John Houseman, "The Fog" was directed by John Carpenter and produced by Debra Hill from their original screenplay. screen-play. Carpenter also wrote the music score, and Charles B. Bloch was executive producer of the Avco Embassy Pictures release. A sleepy California seaside village vil-lage gets set to mark its centennial. cen-tennial. Old legends are told of the wreck of the "Elizabeth Dane" 100 years ago tonight . right there, off the dunes, sending send-ing six sailors to their death in a swirling killer-fog that became their shroud. ; As they died they cursed the town that betrayed them. And now . . . this very day . . . a glowing, glow-ing, pulsing, supernatural fog rolls with sinister steadiness in from the sea. As it curls under doorways and rooftops, the ghosts of the ancient mariners rise ... and the terror begins. "The Fog" an Avco Embassy release is writer-director writer-director John Carpenter's first i film since "Halloween" last year's Grand Prix winner at the 8th Annual International Science Fiction Film Festival in Paris, and a solid hit at the box-office. "The Fog" stars Adrienne Bar-beau Bar-beau ("Maude's" daughter) in her film debut as a radio-station owner and disc jockey who tries to warn the town of its approaching approach-ing doom. Hal Holbrook stars as a priest who helps unravel the mystery ... as does John Houseman, House-man, as the old-timer who recalls and retells the ancient curse. Janet Leigh also stars as head of the centennial committee, and , Jamie Lee Curtis plays a hitchhiker hitch-hiker innocently caught in the town's day of horror. "The idea of fog provides a framework in which I've always wanted to work" says Carpenter, whose former writing-directing credits for "Assault on Precinct 13;' and the teleplay "Something is Watching Me" (and the original origi-nal story for "The Eyes of Laura Mars") show a clear preference for suspense thrillers Producer and partner Debra Hill recalls that one day Carpenter Car-penter told her he'd like to make "an old-fashioned ghost story, in which the fog itself is a character!' charac-ter!' Hill wrote the first draft of the screenplay, which Carpenter then rewrote. (The pair's usual pattern is to write alternate drafts.) To bring "The Fog" to life called for special scenic locations . . . and Hollywood's most sophisticated sophis-ticated fog machine. The first were found in northern California's Califor-nia's Point Reyes, the nation's second foggiest area (after Nantucket Nan-tucket on the East Coast). -Its famous lighthouse, 109 years old, was Barbeau's radio station, and its misty shorelines, whipped fey 75-mile-an-hour winds, swirled with enough ghostly dread to wake the dead. For the second - the special effects possible only through Hollywood Hol-lywood magic - the filmmakers called on A & A's Dick Albain Jr. and his fog-making wonder. As Carpenter describes it, "The fog moves around, it glows, it comes through doorways, through win-dowpanes, win-dowpanes, through your clothes. You don't really see ghosts . . . because of the fog, you only think you do!' Strange, then, that five townsfolk towns-folk die ... from no natural causes. AM ' Pf? Q. I, $ srw 7 ; 'f I ''. t h "if 1 i i I . ,, & Sx J W,v v , ; k .'. fitM v r- T W AA i&3t J s A gnarled seaweed-covered hand plunges suddenly through a church window in this macabre scene from "The Fog',' a contemporary contempo-rary tale of supernatural terror, starring Adrienne Barbeau, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Jamie Lee Curtis and John Houseman. Open ing . . . . .... .at the v. . Theatre, it was directed by Carpenter and produced by Debra Hill from their original screenplay for Avco Embassy Pictures release. |
