{"id":15339,"date":"2022-11-29T22:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15339"},"modified":"2022-11-29T21:34:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T02:34:05","slug":"the-fog-1980-john-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15339","title":{"rendered":"The Fog (1980, John Carpenter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dry run for <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15323\">Prince of Darkness<\/a><\/em>, both movies kicking off with a priest finding a hidden book.  It&#8217;s said that when the fog returns, ghost sailors will rise up in revenge for some lighthouse-related incident that sunk them.  This is of particular concern for Adrienne Barbeau, a radio DJ who broadcasts from the old lighthouse, and for drunk priest Hal Holbrook whose grandfather stole the dead sailors&#8217; gold.<\/p>\n<p><em>DJ Barbeau:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/fog3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/fog4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all nice looking, but feels almost British in gathering a gaggle of actors for a pretty okay ghost story, or like a &#8220;John Carpenter for Kids&#8221; TV movie since its framing device is ol&#8217; ship captain John Houseman telling stories around a campfire.  Who else we got: Jamie Lee Curtis, typecast as a <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15301\">hitchhiker<\/a>, picked up by good guy Tom Atkins.  Janet Leigh is celebrating the town&#8217;s anniversary with <em>Halloween<\/em> regular Nancy Kyes organizing. The weatherman is named Dan O&#8217;Bannon, heh.<\/p>\n<p><em>Curtis and Atkins<\/em>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/fog1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Leigh and Holbrook:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/fog2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dry run for Prince of Darkness, both movies kicking off with a priest finding a hidden book. It&#8217;s said that when the fog returns, ghost sailors will rise up in revenge for some lighthouse-related incident that sunk them. This is of particular concern for Adrienne Barbeau, a radio DJ who broadcasts from the old lighthouse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,110,2599,57,1840],"class_list":["post-15339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-ghosts","tag-jamie-lee-curtis","tag-john-carpenter","tag-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15379,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15339\/revisions\/15379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}