11:55. Almost Midnight...

Click on the pic for one of the best openings of a movie, ever!

Happy Birthday, Antonio Bay...

Oh, and hat tip to Pumpkinrot for finding this lovely tribute to John Carpenter's The Fog.

It's the Twenty-First of April...

Click on the pic for John Houseman's immortal opening monologue for one of my top ten, all-time favorite movies!

Click here for a video dedicated to the locations where John Carpenter's "The Fog" was filmed.

Happy Birthday, Antonio Bay!

Christmas Money

One of the things on my wish list for Christmas this year was the original soundtrack for the 1980 version of John Carpenter's The Fog. It takes me back to being the teenager who loved slasher films and everything John Carpenter, even though I really was only peripherally aware of his name at the time.

Brand new copies of this soundtrack are hard to find, and horribly overpriced, and even used copies are a bit spendy. Even so, armed with Christmas money, I found a good copy at a good price, and treated myself to a needful thing.

The soundtrack, of course, is pure 80s horror with lots of synthesizer. I still love it, especially since this copy includes the opening monologue by the fantastic John Houseman, and an interview with Jamie Lee Curtis.

It also goes along nicely with my 20th anniversary edition of Halloween, which also qualified as a Merry-Christmas-to-me-gift. This soundtrack features extra tracks, many with dialogue between Donald Pleasence and other characters. If you like sound clips with clear, original dialogue, then this might be a good buy for you.

The Fog Revisited

You know by now that one of my all-time favorite horror movies is the 1980 version of John Carpenter's The Fog. Since I have to be a grown-up today and finish an essay due tomorrow morning, I thought I'd give you a quick post with not only one of my fave flicks, but one of the greatest actors of our time: John Houseman. Man, can that guy tell a story!