Following the massive success of his breakout film “Halloween” in 1978, director John Carpenter inked a two-film deal with AVCO Embassy Pictures for his next two follow ups.
Because he was known for the horror genre after creating one of the most iconic slashers in history with Michael Myers, Carpenter was expected to follow that up with another terrifying film. The inspiration for his next film came during a trip to England with his producing partner and then girlfriend Debra Hill when they visited Stonehenge.
At the time they visited, Carpenter remarked at the creepy fog bank that had rolled across Stonehenge and he wondered what could be hiding inside it.
That was enough to spark an idea for a story that Carpenter and Hill wrote together about a group of settlers who conspired to crash a clipper ship named the Elizabeth Dane, captained by a man named Blake who was attempting to find a home for his leper colony in the area.
The sabotage killed Blake and all of his people and his gold was used to found the town of Antonio Bay but 100 years later, the doomed captain returns for revenge.
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to crank up the sultry sounds of Stevie Wayne and batten down the hatches on the Seagrass as we review the 1980 film “The Fog”…
Music courtesy of Andrew Scott Bell and Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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