Jamie Lee Curtis | 31 Nights of Horror

For this year’s 31 Nights of Horror Challenge, the Night 3 prompt is Jamie Lee Curtis. We watched the stop animation movie The Fog on Amazon Prime Video.

Storyline 

Against the backdrop of spine-chilling stories of drowned mariners and a 100-year-old shipwreck lying on the bottom of the sea, the peaceful coastal town of Antonio Bay, California is making preparations to celebrate its centennial. However–as strange supernatural occurrences blemish the festivities–a dense fog starts to shroud the seaside town, leading to unaccountable disappearances. A century ago, a hideous crime was committed by the town’s elders. Now, the restless dead have returned for revenge. Is there something evil lurking in the fog?

Our Thoughts on The Fog (1980)

I am a big John Carpenter fan. I have seen most of his movies and the older stuff is my favorite. It had been a while seen I had seen The Fog and I learned tonight that it was this movie that got Michele into lighthouses. She said that she dreamed as a little girl that she could have a radio in a lighthouse, well she has a podcast in a log cabin! 

This was a fun, cheeky movie with bad special effects but the storyline was decent and the casting was great. 

7 out of 10 

Trivia 

In a few scenes, Dan the local weatherman is tracking the fog bank on his weather radar, and giving reports. Weather radars have never been able to detect fog. Today’s most powerful state-of-the-art NEXRAD radars are sensitive enough to detect bugs, birds, and smoke plumes, but still not fog.

The lighthouse used is the Point Reyes Lighthouse in Marin County, California. There are over 300 steps leading down to the lighthouse.

Jazz music was used for Stevie Wayne’s radio station because the royalties were more affordable than royalties for rock music.

Actresses Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis are real-life mother and daughter. This is the first of only two feature films they made together – the other one being Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).

Tom Atkins‘ character’s name is Nick Castle, which is the name of the original actor who played Michael Myers/The Shape in John Carpenter‘s classic Halloween (1978).

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