![]() ![]() ![]() The Fog was released on February 8, 1980, and although Carpenter would have slightly more money than he did on Halloween, it was still paltry even by early ’80s standards. ![]() And just like that, they had their follow-up. “What do you think is in that fog?” asked Carpenter. While on vacation in England, she and Carpenter visited Stonehenge and took note of an eerie fog bank surrounding the mystical structure. “We didn’t want to make another knife picture,” explained producer Debra Hill in the DVD documentary Tales from the Mist: Inside the Fog. Once it had, he found himself with a $47 million gross (on a $325,000 budget - making it the highest grossing indie film ever until The Blair Witch Project in 1999) and mounting expectations for a killer follow-up. The truth was, it opened in such limited release that it took a long time for word of mouth to build momentum. In 1978, director John Carpenter released the seminal horror film Halloween and… it flopped. (Photo by ©AVCO Embassy Pictures courtesy Everett Collection) ![]()
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