"In some ways, the two-month-long shoot was idyllic, King said. There were grueling 36-hour shifts, to be sure, but she quickly settled into the rhythm of life. Every morning, she'd drive her godson Daniel to class, who was attending high school on location in Tomales. On weekends, actors Michael Paré and Peter Jason went out fishing, and they'd have steamed salmon for dinner, or she'd cook beef bourguignon. They booked every bed-and-breakfast in town, and the cast and crew seemed happy."
"Sandy King remembers her last autumn in the Bay Area vividly. The prolific Hollywood producer had recently married legendary filmmaker John Carpenter. It was just over a decade after he had shot his seaside ghost story "The Fog," filmed largely throughout the sweeping dairy ranches and mist-laced cliffs of Marin County. He loved the area so much that he decided to buy a house out there where the couple lived:"
Sandy King lived in a glass-walled house between Tomales Bay and Drakes Bay after marrying filmmaker John Carpenter. Carpenter received the script for Village of the Damned, a reimagining of a 1960 film based on the 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos, and agreed to film it around their Bay Area home. The two-month shoot featured grueling 36-hour shifts but a settled rhythm: daily drives for a godson attending high school on location, weekend fishing trips by actors, communal meals, and booked local bed-and-breakfasts. Local hostility manifested as threats and pentagrams carved into the front door.
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