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The Fog location: the fogbound lighthouse: Point Reyes Lighthouse, northern California
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THE FOG
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“To the ships at sea who can hear my voice, look across the water, into the darkness. Look for the fog.”
This enjoyable early John Carpenter spookster overcomes its minuscule budget with 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, at the towns of Point Reyes Station and Inverness, in Marin County, on Highway 1 north of San Francisco.
The lighthouse 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).
There was also filming in nearby Bodega Bay, the famous location for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
Rupert Wainwright’s much-reviled 2005 remake of The Fog was filmed on Bowen Island, Vanvouver, in British Columbia, where Snug Cove became ëAntonio Bayí, and the cemetery was built in Crippen Park. Bowen Island proved such a lucky spot for remakes that Neil LaBute chose it as the ideal spot for his remake of another cult classic, The Wicker Man. Oops.
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LOCATIONS FOR THE FOG (1979)
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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.
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