The Fogwood Family: Heritage (Info page)

 The wealthy, reclusive and mysterious Fogwood family have lived in the outskirts of town for as long as anyone can remember and are the source of endless rumors. But what actually happens within their old mansion?

 

Production

Cumagical had talked about creating a remake of The Fogwood Family since shortly after the original had been released in 2017, since they both liked the story and characters, but disliked how the original short movie came out. During their short break from creating videos, they decided that the remake would be their first project upon returning.
Fröy had initially planned to make a scene-by-scene remake of the original movie, but eventually decided against it. He preferred the idea of creating a slight re-imagining of the story, and liked the concept of Heritage (and by extension the original movie) just being stories told by the local townspeople based on rumors and hearsay rather than the literal truth, which explains the slightly different chain of events, script and look of the characters. This also allowed him to improve and change parts of the script he had grown discontent with.
Llunkttut made sure to keep the music used in the original mostly intact, in order to keep the atmosphere consistent. However, he also altered the lighting and coloring to portray a more gothic mood, something he wished he had done with the original as well, since a "gothic tone" was literally written into the original script by Fröy.

Trivia

• The Fogwoods are actually related in-game.
• The original movie also had two add-ons, with slightly different scenarios. Fröy used the idea of creating two add-ons for the remake as well, in order to include sex scenes he would have liked to show but that the main movie didn't have time and space for.
• The butler Ronald’s surname in-game was ‘Pennyworth’, a nod towards Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred Pennyworth in DC's Batman.
• Richard's line "A bird needs to be given wings before she can fly" is a nod towards the quote that opened the original movie: "Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing."
• The book that Vanessa is reading in the first add-on video is "The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe."
• Like in the original, Samantha is portrayed as being artistic, with an easel in her room along with several paintings on the walls. These paintings were painted by Samantha herself in-game. Fröy also decided to emphasize her melancholic personality, as opposed to Ethan's formal one.
• One of the sources of inspiration behind the appearance of the Fogwoods were the Addams Family.
• The names of the Fogwood parents, Richard and Vanessa, were never mentioned in the original movie, despite being in the script.
• The name of one of the old ladies who is telling the story, Mrs Thornhill, is a reference to a minor character in Grand Theft Auto V.