Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog' (2002) (V)

Director:

Jeffrey Schwarz

Genre:

Documentary | Short | Horror

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Behind The Scenes | Cult Favorite | Film Making | Ghost Ship | Ghost

Cast

Adrienne Barbeau	...	Herself
Dennis Bartok	...	Himself
John Carpenter	...	Himself
Dean Cundey	...	Himself
Jamie Lee Curtis	...	Herself (archive footage)
Debra Hill	...	Herself
John Houseman	...	Himself (archive footage)
Janet Leigh	...	Herself
Tommy Lee Wallace	...	Himself

Runtime:

28 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Company:

Automat Pictures

Trivia:

This making-of documentary is featured on the Special Edition DVD for The Fog (1980), released in 2002.

Movie Connections:

References "Tales from the Crypt" (1989)

Play `misty' for me!!!

`Inside the Fog' is a routine `making of'- documentary. The structure and the footage shown are typical, but that doesn't mean it can't be informative. Debra Hill and John Carpenter (among other crew-members) enlighten us a little how they got the idea for the film, how they created those breath-taking fog effects etc. Some interesting trivia to discover there since Hill and Carpenter actually thought up the plot when they were visiting Stonehenge while all of a sudden a fogbank surrounded them. Also pretty interesting is the comparison between this film, and John Carpenter's big breakthrough `Halloween'… Even though they're both suspenseful films, they're entirely different, and it's fascinating to see how Carpenter tried to create a whole other style of film. Perhaps the most intriguing part of the documentary is how cast and crew explains how `The Fog' initially failed during a screening session. The audience wasn't impressed and the crew urgently had to add sequences and tension elements before the deadline. `Tales from the Mist' is an interesting little extra when you love the film. It comes as an extra on the Special Edition DVD.