The Fog, 1979
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visit the film locations
Visiting: Point Reyes
Point Reyes Lighthouse. To reach the Point Reyes Lighthouse from Highway 1, head west on Bear Valley Road from Olema or west on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard from Point Reyes Station. In Point Reyes Station, the turnoff from Highway 1 is located at the Green Bridge on the south end of town. The driving time from Point Reyes Station or Olema is about 40 minutes.
Trivia
John Carpenter returned to Point Reyes Station for his not-too-successful 1995 remake of Village of the Damned.
Rupert Wainwright’s much-reviled 2005 remake of The Fog was filmed Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Fog location: the fogbound lighthouse: Point Reyes Lighthouse, northern California
John Carpenter wanted to follow the runaway success of Halloween with a good, old-fashioned ghost story, but audience expectations led to the last minute addition of extra gore.
The director triumphs over the minuscule budget with imagination and widescreen bravura, as the long-drowned crew of a wrecked ship return to the California coastal town of ‘Port Antonio’ wreak whatever it is the undead wreak best. Usually havoc.
It was filmed on the damp and, yes, misty northern California coast and – surprisingly – also around Los Angeles.
The town of ‘Port Antonio’ is Point Reyes Station in Marin County, on Highway 1 north of San Francisco.
The bechfront house is on the coast at nearby Inverness,
The Fog location: the fogbound church: Episcopal Church of the Ascension, East Laurel Avenue, Sierra Madre, California
The lighthouse home of radio station KAB is the 1870 Point Reyes Lighthouse., down a long and narrow road from the town of Port Reyes Station. And once you arrive, there are 300 precipitous steps down to the light itself (so remember the return journey).
The dockside is alongside the Tides Inn at Bodega Bay, the famous location for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
Many of the interiors were filmed on the Raleigh Stdios on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood (including John Houseman’s beach prologue), so some of the locations were filmed around Los Angeles too.
The church is Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 25 East Laurel Avenue at North Baldwin Avenue, just north of Sierra Madre Boulevard, in Sierra Madre.
