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)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Adrienne Barbeau
The fog kills the sailors as well as the local weatherman and Andy Wayne's nanny, all descendants of the town founders. Stevie Wayne is trapped by herself in the lighthouse/radio station as the fog rolls in.Eventually, a group of survivors, namely Elizabeth Solley (Jamie Lee Curis), Andy Wayne (Ty Mitchell), Father Malone (Hal Holbrook) Cathy Williams (Janet Leigh) and (I think) Nick Castle (Tom Atkins) convene in Father Malone's church. They hole up in Father Malone's study, and the Fog surrounds them. They decide that Father Malone must be the only one of the six still alive, and Father Malone take the cross from his study (Whats left of blake's gold) and goes out into the church, which i now inhabited by the fog, now in human form. He hands overthe cross to the ghost of Blake and the fog recedes. Meanwhile, Stevie is fighting off the ghosts with a fishing hook, and the fog recedes just before they kill her. All except father Malone drive down to Antonio Bay. Stevie starts broadcasting a warning about the fog from the station. Father malone is killed by the ghosts who return, thus completing their revenge.
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More mistakes in The Fog
Stevie Wayne: I don't know what happened to Antonio Bay tonight. Something came out of the fog and tried to destroy us. In one moment, it vanished. But if this has been anything but a nightmare, and if we don't wake up to find ourselves safe in our beds, it could come again. To the ships at sea who can hear my voice, look across the water, into the darkness. Look for the fog.
Trivia: Writer-Director John Carpenter appears in the film as Bennett, Father Malone's assistant, at the beginning of the movie.
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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