"I remember it was just sitting on the horizon way past Stonehenge," Hill said in the same commentary, "and John said to me, 'What if there's something in that fog? Wouldn't that be scary?' and that's how it sort of evolved." The concept of the titular fog itself was derived from a vacation Carpenter and Hill took in England in 1977, with Carpenter stating on the 2002 MGM DVD audio commentary that they "went to see Stonehenge, and as I recall I came up with the idea of having something coming out of the fog." The inspiration behind the actual story of The Fog comes from fact, fiction, and somewhere in between.
I love Lewton's films - they're very shadowy, all suggestion, and he has all sorts of melodrama going. I wanted to do Isle of the Dead or I Walked With a Zombie.
Carpenter told the magazine that he wanted to do "A Val Lewton film. "I just wanted to make an old-fashioned ghost story with a nod back to childhood fears," Carpenter said in a 2003 DVD introduction in 1980, when talking to Fangoria, he was more specific about his influences. So how would Carpenter and Hill live up to the exploits of Michael Myers? By turning to a classic genre of literature, one of the cornerstones of horror: the ghost story. Directed by Carpenter and produced and co-written by Debra Hill, the low-budget slasher went on to gross $47 million at the United States box office, over 200 times its budget, and was considered one of the most terrifying films ever made. So how did The Fog go from being "really bad" to a beloved horror? Carpenter was following up one of the scariest and most successful horror movies ever made and, to make matters worse, had to re-shoot, re-edit, and re-score the film after declaring the original version a disaster. But while it's commonly seen as a sublime ghost story today, things were a lot different back in 1980. So begins The Fog, John Carpenter's supernatural tale of revenge from beyond the grave, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this month.
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