Continuity mistake: The land mass where Ty first spots the gold coin is different from the area he picks it up at. During the first camera shot watch the waves coming in. The waves do not even go over the coin. Stick around to watch some poor film editing because you can see the coin turn into a board just before a wave covers the coin. (00:24:45 - 00:25:50)
The Fog (1980)
Plot summary
Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Adrienne Barbeau
Antonio Bay is about to celebrate its centenary when Father Malone (Hal Holbrook) biscovers a journal by his ancestor, which reveals that the money to start up the town was stolen from a wealthy leper named Blake and his companions. the town founders then sunk the Leper's ship and, aided by a very thick fog, stole the gold. 100 years later, Stevie Wayne (Adrienne Barbeau) finds a terrifying message on an old Timber saying "The six must DIE".
meanwhile, out on the ocean, a fisherman's boat occupied by three men is engulfed by a supernatural fog. the terror has begun...
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More mistakes in The Fog
Kathy Williams: Are you going to give the benediction tonight, father?
Father Malone: Antonio bay has a curse on it.
Sandy Fadel: Do we take that as a "no"?
Trivia: When Father Malone discovers the journal, at the beginning of the movie, he opens it to a full page of text. We only see it very briefly but if you pause the film it appears to be some sort of joke. Here's a couple of extracts I could make out: "writing dumb shit in this fucking movie.." "...big tits, tatoos (sic)..." (00:06:41)
Question: I recently bought the Scream Factory Blu-ray. During the opening with the old man telling the kids the spooky story, there's a moment where it cuts from a wideshot to a closeup, and it looks like there's a weird, random zooming effect added that's only about five frames between the wide and closeup shots (between the lines "drew towards land" and "Suddenly, out of the night"). Is that part of the original movie, or is that just some sort-of defect on the disc? It just looks out of place.
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